REVIEW: Is it a track day star, a supercar, a super-GT, or a roadster? We're not quite sure how to categorise the Donkervoort F22, but that's okay - it's absolutely brilliant
Fancy a challenge? Try to categorise the car I’m about to describe. Trackday star, supercar, super-GT, roadster. Whatever you think fits the bill.
They also say it’s fit for touring, with real ride quality, yet there’s little doubt this car would munch anything the sensible side of a McLaren 750S were you to unsheathe one at a track day, as many owners will do. It has racing ABS yet greater luggage capacity than a Porsche 911 GT3. It has no obvious aero to speak of but can apparently pull 2.15g when its semi-slicks are simmering.
Today, we’re back in Lelystad to see the new F22 in build. We’ll then head onto the road in chassis 001 . The Ex-Core hub is hidden away at the back of the workshop proper and isn’t only tasked with making F22 bits. It’s a charming quirk of the Donkervoort operation that in one corner of this tiny factory they might be restoring an S8T from 1985, while at the other end the Ex-Core team are constructing aero elements for overnight shipping and fitment to, for example, Toyota’s GR010 – the spaceship LMH car that currently leads the World Endurance Championship.
Time to climb aboard, into filigree carbon buckets so slim they're barely there at all, and behind which gleam the remote reservoirs for the rear dampers. Depress the clutch. It’s medium rare: hefty enough to convey a certain pedigree but not so much that it’d push you to the brink of madness in heavy traffic. The engine catches and, remarkably, might just be the least subtle thing about the circus that is the Donkervoort F22. Audi’s barrelchested throb suits this machine.
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