{"id":862,"date":"2012-12-02T20:50:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T02:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2012\/12\/02\/121202-venomgtdogma2-2\/"},"modified":"2022-04-08T08:07:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T13:07:27","slug":"121202-venomgtdogma2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2012\/12\/02\/121202-venomgtdogma2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Things: Venom \/ Dogma"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re deep into the Christmas shopping season and some of you have been asking for gift hints. This post is for you. And by “you,” I mean, of course, Warren Buffet or The Sultan of Brunei.<\/p>\n

Hennessey Venom GT<\/h3>\n

\"Venom<\/p>\n

Forget 0-60. That’s soooo 1960s. Forget 0-100. That’s for wannabes. The new gold standard for vehicular excessiveness is 0-200, and the Venom GT<\/a> – billed by its manufacturer as the world’s fastest roadster – will bridge that gap in 15.3 seconds. By contrast, the zillion-dollar Bugatti Veyron<\/a>, the previous King of the Over the Top Hill is, well, several seconds slower (depending on whether you believe Hennessey’s website, or Bugatti’s). Of course, one could make a good argument that for normal people (aka, women), a few seconds slower getting to 200 mph is a triviality not worth considering, but for the rest of us, it’s major.<\/p>\n

The Venom (what is it with the letter “V,” by the way, that attracts nasty cars: Venom, Viper, Veyron, Visigoth? OK, I made that last one up, but I would totally be in the market for a pickup called the Visigoth.) has an engine system that allows you to choose your sentencing guidelines: Misdemeanor – 800 hp; Felony – 1,000 hp; Death Row – 1,244 hp. The latter setting works out to about 1 horsepower per 2.2 pounds of weight, which is truly insane for a four-wheeled vehicle.<\/p>\n

Hennessey is reportedly making only five Venoms in 2013, so get your order in early. You’ll still be behind Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, who requested a Venom in convertible form<\/a>, and was willing to pay $1.1 million for the privilege of being the only person in the world to have one.<\/p>\n

Pinarello Dogma 2<\/h3>\n

\"Dogma2\"<\/p>\n

Shifting gears while remaining in the gear-shifting realm, the two-wheeled equivalent of the Venom might be Pinarello’s Dogma 2, a $20,000 bike (when equipped with high-end components like Campy’s Super Record electronic shifting package<\/a>). Depending on what pedals you put on it, the bike weighs just a whisper over 15 pounds (yielding a HP\/lbs ratio of…well, it depends on whether you’re Bradley Wiggins or, um…yourself), which is flirting with the minimum allowable weight to compete in the Tour de France (~14.99 pounds). And, speaking of the TdF and Bradley Wiggins, he won it last year on this bike.<\/p>\n

It does share a few traits with the Venom. Its primary frame material is carbon fiber, and its styling is guaranteed to distinguish it from your neighbor’s Huffy\/Pontiac Aztec. And it also represents an investment that’s proportionately outrageous for those who can just barely afford one.<\/p>\n

Also, both would fit in my garage. *hint, hint*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re deep into the Christmas shopping season and some of you have been asking for gift hints. This post is for you. And by “you,” I mean, of course, Warren Buffet or The Sultan of Brunei. Hennessey Venom GT Forget 0-60. That’s soooo 1960s. Forget 0-100. That’s for wannabes. The new gold standard for vehicular… Continue reading Two Things: Venom \/ Dogma<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-cycling","category-two-things","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9764,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/9764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}