The Power Plays
The F5-M debuted. It screams 2,031 hp through a gated six-speed manual. A wild setup for the world’s most powerful manual transmission car.
I met Nathan Malinick, Hennessey’s Design Director, at Goodwood. Good place to talk about noise. Good place to ask why the company is suddenly building one-off monsters for people who already have too many.
The F5-M itself is almost production. Almost. Hennessey builds 12. Each costs $2.65 million1. Standard exclusivity.
Then there is Maverick.
Enter Maverick
Think Rolls-Royce Bespoke. Think Ferrari Special Projects. Maverick is Hennessey’s answer if $2.65M just feels like buying a appliance.
Maverick started about a year ago. Slow start. This F5 is only the second project done.
The first was a manual-swapped Venorm F5 Revolution LF. Look at that. A prototype for what the “standard” manual car would eventually become.
With Maverick. The rules go out the window.
Paint. Wheels. Interior textures. Pick a theme. Pick nothing.
Everything for Maverick is a one-off… It’s endless.
But wait. That’s small potatoes.
Rebuild The Skin
Malinick admits something weird. Customers might want more than custom colors. They might want a new body entirely.
Rebodying. Yes, that’s what they say.
We would be happy to rebody whole car.
Why? Who does that? Malinick compares it to watches.
You buy a Patek. Why? It’s cool. There is a story.
Same thing. Just add zeros to the price.
If you had billion dollars… just have fun. You can do anything.
Is someone already asking Hennessey to weld a new chassis skin onto their hypercar? Nobody knows. Probably not yet.
But the offer is there. The division exists.
It makes sense really. Competitors do one-offs all the time. Hennessey needed a way to keep up. Money changes nothing. And everything.
