Venturi was founded in 1984 in France by engineers Claude Poiraud and Gérard Godfroy, Silodrome notes. Back then, it was called Manufacture de Voitures de Sport (MVS) and the pair had the intent ...

Within a year, racing driver Herve Poulain had raised the funds to produce the car, and formed a new company called MVS – Manufacture ... Jean-Pierre Beltoise, the Venturi – now spelled ...

Venturi went to Bonneville believing the 3,000-hp (2,237 kW) Buckeye Bullet 3 could best the VBB-2.5's 307.7-mph (495 km/h) absolute electric speed record from 2010. However, flooded salt and ...

See All 8 Photos The cars used in the spec race were all MVS Venturi 400 GT Trophys, the predecessor to the later Atlantique coupe. Power came from a mid-mounted twin-turbocharged variant of the ...

That's right, Venturi, the same name behind the MVS Venturi, Atlantique, or LM race cars, and the same currently competing with something called Flexible Logistics and Exploration (FLEX ...

The company became known in some limited circles as the makers of the MVS Venturi, the Atlantique, or the LM series of limited-production race cars. Its American offshoot is called Venturi ...

None of those is true for me when it comes to Venturi, nor its predecessor MVS, but I've long harboured a peculiar soft spot for their output nonetheless. Okay, so it's not that strange ...