Tuning firm Hennessey Performance is celebrating its 20th birthday and has created a limited run of twenty 20th Anniversary HPE650 Camaros to celebrate. The 655-hp, supercharged HPE650 Camaro upon which the run of cars is based isn’t the most radical Camaro in Hennessey’s catalog—it’s not even the most powerful supercharged model—but several special Anniversary goodies sweeten the deal.
The Anniversary Camaro adds as standard several optional HPE650 items, such as black leather upholstery and a lower coil-over suspension kit, and it comes only in black. Customers will have a couple of choices to make, however, including opting for a manual or an automatic transmission and whether to go coupe or convertible. The limited-edition car also gets 20th Anniversary exterior badges and embroidered floor mats, as well as two numbered plaques affixed to the dashboard and engine cover.
The HPE650 powertrain upgrades include a TVS supercharger, a revised exhaust, and new engine calibration, and push the output of the stock Camaro’s 6.2-liter V-8 engine up from 426 hp to 655. Hennessey claims the HPE650 can hit 60 mph in just 3.7 seconds and cover the quarter-mile in 11.7 at 122 mph, and, traction willing, we feel those numbers have some veracity. We clocked a factory 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS at 4.6 seconds to 60.
The coupe starts at $79,500 and the convertible at $84,500, more than a standard HPE650 but a lot less than the $132,000 commanded by the 755-horse HPE700 Camaro. The Anniversary model’s exclusivity and extra goodies should be enough to sway twenty people to pay the price—as if the power alone wouldn’t be enough.
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