New Donkervoort D8 GT
If Donkervoort sounds Dutch, that's because it is. The Lelystad-based company has been building high-performance roadsters in the vein of the Lotus Super Seven for almost three decades. But at the Geneva show, Donkervoort will unveil its first hardtop-the D8 GT.
Donkervoort says it has improved on the D8's already-competent platform with uprated suspension, hydraulic automatic height adjustment and an under-floor sandwich cover-handling is expected to be even more precise. The GT uses a carbon-fiber body with gullwing doors that swing up and forward. Fixed side windows and the heated rear window are made of polycarbonate specially developed by General Electric. Total weight increased by just 44 lb., up to 1344 lb.
Aerodynamics are better, too, Joop Donkervoort expecting even stronger performance than delivered by the already quick open 2-seater (0-60 mph in 3.9 seconds for the highest-horsepower version, which uses a 270-bhp turbocharged Audi 4-cylinder). Though the $118,000 D8 GT has yet to be tested, Donkervoort expects it will break the Nürburgring Nordschleife lap record for street-legal cars of 7:14.89, set by a Donkervoort in 2005 - that's already 14 sec. quicker than the Porsche Carrera GT!
Donkervoort says it has improved on the D8's already-competent platform with uprated suspension, hydraulic automatic height adjustment and an under-floor sandwich cover-handling is expected to be even more precise. The GT uses a carbon-fiber body with gullwing doors that swing up and forward. Fixed side windows and the heated rear window are made of polycarbonate specially developed by General Electric. Total weight increased by just 44 lb., up to 1344 lb.
Aerodynamics are better, too, Joop Donkervoort expecting even stronger performance than delivered by the already quick open 2-seater (0-60 mph in 3.9 seconds for the highest-horsepower version, which uses a 270-bhp turbocharged Audi 4-cylinder). Though the $118,000 D8 GT has yet to be tested, Donkervoort expects it will break the Nürburgring Nordschleife lap record for street-legal cars of 7:14.89, set by a Donkervoort in 2005 - that's already 14 sec. quicker than the Porsche Carrera GT!
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