"The foundation is Lotus' lovable Elise, which gets chopped, stretched and reinforced at a production facility in Silverstone, England before prepping for heart surgery. Back in Sealy, Texas, the Hennessey Performance workshop takes the General's supercharged 6.2-liter LS9 V8 and modifies it to one of three tunes. The "base" 725-horsepower version churns out 741 pound-feet of torque at 3,200 rpm, runs on 91-octane and is the same mill fitted to Hennessey's HPE700 Camaro. Two twin-turbocharged variants are in the works, one running on 93-octane and putting out 1,000 hp and 900 lb-ft of twist, with another 109-octane-tuned version outputting 1,200 hp and 1,100 lb-ft of torque for customers with an overblown bank account and a undeveloped sense of self-preservation." - Kurt Starnes