The Sealy, Texas outfit will rebody an entire F5 hypercar if a customer writes the cheque.
Hennessey has a new coachbuilding arm. It is called Maverick. The division, formed roughly twelve months ago, operates out of the company's Sealy, Texas facility and has completed exactly two projects. The second — a bespoke Venom F5-M shown publicly at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed — confirms that full body replacements are available to order.
Bespoke coachbuilding is not new. Rolls-Royce runs its Bespoke atelier; Ferrari maintains the Special Projects programme, which has produced fewer than 50 commissions since 2006, according to Ferrari's corporate communications archive. What Maverick adds is access to a 2,031-hp platform that neither of those programmes touches. Nathan Malinick, Hennessey's Director of Design, confirmed the programme's scope to Motor1 during the Goodwood event in July 2025.
How Maverick Reached Its Second Project
Maverick's first completed commission was not the F5-M. It was a manual-transmission conversion of the Venom F5 Revolution LF — a car Hennessey describes internally as a preview build rather than a production unit. That project laid the engineering groundwork for what became the F5-M series. When Hennessey brought the F5-M to Goodwood's Hill in July 2025, Maverick's bespoke bodywork and interior specification were visible on the car's exterior finish and cabin trim. The division's existence had not been widely publicised before the event. Malinick used the Goodwood appearance to outline what clients can request: unique paint formulations, one-off wheel designs, exterior detail changes, and full interior commissions. None of those options appear in Hennessey's standard configurator for the F5-M series. Maverick sits above it entirely, operating as a separate brief-and-build process with no published lead time.
The Numbers Behind a One-Off F5 Commission
The Venom F5-M enters production as a 12-unit series at $2.65 million per example. That gives the run a theoretical gross revenue ceiling of $31.8 million (12 × $2,650,000 = $31,800,000). A Maverick commission sits on top of that base price; Hennessey has not published a surcharge schedule. For context, Ferrari's Special Projects cars have historically carried premiums of 100–300% over the donor model's list price, according to industry valuation reports cited by Hagerty's market analysis, Q1 2025. Applied conservatively at 100%, a rebodied F5-M could approach $5.3 million. The F5-M's powertrain produces 2,031 hp routed through a six-speed gated manual gearbox — making it, by Hennessey's own claim, the most powerful manual-transmission production car currently on sale. Maverick does not alter the powertrain specification; all mechanical work remains within the standard F5-M engineering package. The division's output so far: 2 completed vehicles in approximately 12 months, or roughly one per half-year at current pace.
Malinick on the Scope of 'Endless'
Malinick did not hedge. Speaking to Motor1 at Goodwood on the day of the F5-M's public debut, he described Maverick's mandate in terms that leave little room for a ceiling: 'Everything for Maverick is a one-of-one… It's a whole different ball game. It's endless.' On the prospect of a full rebody — replacing all exterior panels with a new design — he was equally direct: 'We would be happy to rebody the whole car. The sky's the limit.' Neither statement was qualified by a delivery timeframe or a budget floor. What Malinick did not confirm is whether any client has yet formally commissioned a full rebody. That request, as of the Goodwood appearance, remained hypothetical. Hennessey Special Vehicles issued no written press release detailing Maverick's service tiers, pricing bands, or lead times at the time of publication. The programme's terms exist, at this stage, as a verbal brief communicated through Malinick.
Maverick Against Established Bespoke Programmes
Rolls-Royce Bespoke and Ferrari Special Projects are the two benchmarks Maverick will be measured against. Rolls-Royce does not publish annual Bespoke commission volumes, but the division accounts for the majority of vehicles leaving Goodwood — the company reported in its 2023 annual results that virtually every car built carried at least one bespoke element. Ferrari Special Projects, by contrast, restricts full coachbuilt commissions to existing clients with significant purchase history; prices for past cars such as the SP3 Daytona have exceeded €2 million above the donor model's retail figure, according to Ferrari's investor presentation, November 2022. Maverick's entry point is different: it is attached to a platform that does not exist in either Rolls-Royce's or Ferrari's catalogue — a twin-turbocharged, 2,031-hp, rear-wheel-drive manual hypercar. The McLaren bespoke pipeline, outlined in summer 2025, similarly targets ultra-low volumes but works from mid-engine V8 architecture rather than a dedicated hypercar body. Maverick's production rate of two vehicles per year is slower than all named competitors at present.
What the Programme Still Hasn't Answered
Maverick has been operating for approximately twelve months. In that window it has produced two vehicles. Hennessey has not published a client intake process, a minimum commission value, or a waiting list structure. No Maverick-specific pricing document was available at Goodwood or through Hennessey Special Vehicles' press office at time of writing. That absence is worth noting. Ferrari's Special Projects programme, despite its exclusivity, publishes enough procedural detail — existing client requirement, one-on-one design sessions at Maranello — that prospective clients understand the entry conditions. Maverick's public profile is, so far, a director's verbal commitment and two finished cars. Whether demand for full rebodies exists at the F5-M's price point is also unconfirmed. Malinick's phrase 'one day I'm sure it'll happen' implies no rebody order has been placed. The gap between capability and confirmed demand is real. Trade in ultra-high-value commission vehicles is also subject to evolving import duty exposure — as seen in the 25% U.S. truck tariff and parallel European IVA discussions — which could affect cross-border delivery costs for any Maverick client outside the United States.
Hennessey was founded in 1991 and produced its first Venom GT in 2011 — a car that ran 270.49 mph at Kennedy Space Center in 2014, a figure that remains part of the brand's official performance record. Maverick is the company's first formally named coachbuilding structure in that 34-year history. No delivery date for a rebodied F5 has been announced. The complete Hennessey model history and specifications are catalogued in the Global Auto Index manufacturer database.
