In a new advertising campaign, Hennessey makes no bones about the fact that it’s jockeying for position as automaker producing the record-fastest production car in the world. If not for a Guinness Record technicality, they would.

Regardless, the tireless four-wheel specialists in Texas have a new model to crow about, the F5 Venom, and they’re suggesting none-too-subtly that its appearance on the road will make Hennessey the proud parent of a true enfant terrible.

Hennessey named the newest Venom the F5, and that’s after the meteorological F5, which, in U.S. parlance, indicates a funnel cloud you’d prefer to remain clear of. Naming a car after a wildly destructive force of nature which wreaks havoc annually in this country certainly gets the point bluntly across, but Hennessey isn’t the first: Oldsmobile’s Tornado was a pretty ferocious machine until the late 1970’s, when fuel-efficiency trumped engine size.

Hennessey isn’t terribly worried about fuel efficiency, though, because nobody who’s seriously considering buying a Venom is very concerned with it, either. What they are concerned with is the car’s potential for genuinely hair-raising acceleration, and the F5 should fit the bill when it comes to launch Gs. Extensive use of carbon fiber and a modified version of the GT’s 7.0L twin-turbo V8 bring the power-to-weight ratio into the category of downright silly; Hennessey was very concerned with weight in the F5’s design, and rejected a dual-clutch gearbox for exactly that reason.

Speaking of transmissions, the Venom F5 will offer an optional six-speed manual. Those who like a more interactive experience as they find their inner test pilot may breathe easy.

Hennessey isn’t talking performance or pricing numbers yet, but the GT Spyder’s horsepower rating comes in at 1,451; the GT hit a recorded top speed of over 270 MPH, with an estimated top speed of 278. Pricing of the models has hovered around $1.2 million in the past; we’d expect the F5 to add about 30% to that figure.