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 ...

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 ...

So the decision was made to start MVS, a French acronym that translates to "sports car maker." One of those sports cars was the Venturi 260 APC, and it's the subject of this latest Petrolicious video.

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 ...

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 ...