New Donkervoort D8 GTO-JD70 can pull 2G
Just 70 examples of the featherweight Dutch supercar will be made and they will humble hypercars on trackDonkervoort has announced that the four-wheeled 70th birthday present to honour its founder will be capable of cornering as hard as a McLaren Senna hypercar.
Said to be an evolution of its current D8 GTO, the new limited-run JD70 version features an all-new carbon-fibre body that's claimed to add 80kg of downforce at the rear and another 50kg up front.
Combined, they allow the Donkervoort D8 GTO-JD70 to muster an incredible 2Gs of lateral acceleration on track-focused but road-legal tyres.
Like before, the D8 GTO-JD70 is powered by a turbocharged 2.5-litre five-cylinder engine sourced from Audi. In the Donkervoort, it pumps out a healthy 310kW of power and 519Nm of torque – that's 30kW and 69Nm more than the standard D8 GTO.
Weighing around 700kg, the new JD70 is set to obliterate the 2.8-second 0-100km/h acceleration and 270km/h top speed of the standard D8 GTO.
New tech introduced as part of updates to the pint-sized Dutch supercar include new rev-match software developed by Bosch, which allows full-throttle upshifts.
Commenting on its latest creation Donkervoort MD, Denis Donkervoort, said: "The JD70 is the distillation of everything we know and everything we’ve learned on the road and the racetrack, from track days and from customer talks and, of course, from Joop’s own ideas on what a supercar should be to its driver."
Donkervoort says it will make just 70 examples of the D8 GTO-JD70, with each car priced from €163,636 ($A268,000).
Sadly, there are no current plans for right-hand drive production, ruling out the Donkervoort for release Down Under.
Please see our Editorial Guidelines & Code of Ethics (including for more information about sponsored content and paid events). The information published on this website is of a general nature only and doesn’t consider your particular circumstances or needs.
