Donkervoort D8 GTO Performance: a driving test and video

Posted on 29-06-2015 to 16:00 pm by Wouter – 65 Comments”

If you are looking for comfort, the latest electronic gadgets and a car where the mileage goes unnoticed glide? That provides a Donkervoort of course not, but what do you get there or back?

[ First look, then read? Watch the video HERE! ]

Any Donkervoort is a car for true purists of the feast. Lightweight, lots of power, very little electronic interference and a pure driving experience. Forums and reaguurderspanelen are filled with odes to this kind of cars and tirades against the modern automobile which are becoming further from this ideal seems to slip. Yet the streets are not full of Donkervoorts and also in the file find but precious few. The price is hurdle number one, hurdle number two is the slogan of Donkervoort: “No Compromise”. The same people that loftrompet stitches on the puristic character of the D8 GTO, there are earthly things such as a roof (it may, incidentally), luggage room (surprisingly spacious), navigation, massage seats including hemorrhoid-remove-program (there is not) and a navigation-system (what is wrong with navigate to the position of the sun and an old-fashioned map) to want to have.

In a Donkervoort, you step not in, teleport would be the best option, but I had only two coffees that morning. So folded myself into corners which I didn’t know that I ever could have done. That was even with the roof off, so that the height is unlimited space.

Bloedverziekend quickly
That does not include the D8 GTO, because that is even faster than that. Intimidating quickly even. The D8 is not a car from the “Playstation generation”, where launchcontrol, ESP and a box with double coupling, the potential for anyone to expose explains. In the D8 GTO, you need to work really pace. You can enable and attaches itself. There is traction control, but I would be there in the rain only after a longer acquaintance really full gas dare to go. Thanks to the brilliant power-to-weight ratio and accelerates the D8 GTO faster than anything with four wheels and what not which would transport.

Standard 340 hp Premium 380 hp

0-100 km/h3.3 sec 2.8 sec

0-200 km/h9.4 sec8.6 sec

Topsnelheid255 km/h270 km/h

Responsible for the krachtsexplosie is one of our favorite blocks: the five cylinder Audi’s quattro Gmbh. That block is entertaining in the RS Q3, hilarious in the RS3 and gives the TT-RS downright wings. Should you even imagine you are in the half of the car weight know recommended….

It remains extraordinary that a manufacturer like Audi to take the trouble to engines to Donkervoort. For the handful (relatively) of cars which the family Donkervoort per year to build, they do not need to do. Leichtbau is one thing, innovation another. Companies like Donkervoort can switch quickly, no lengthy meetings about the color and shape of a flashing light and can thus even the men of Audi and quattro Gmbh inspired.

The five cylinder TFSI could not, however, without adjustments in the front of the D8 GTO to be crammed. In all Audi products is the vijfpitter across the front, while Joop Donkervoort, the block in the longitudinal direction tends to build up. Intake manifold ,engine mountings, camshaft pulley, water pump, alternator, starmotor all had a new place. The flywheel, clutch, clutch and gearbox were also adjusted. Because the men-men car is, could the stuurbekrachtigings and a / c compressor may be omitted. Total, the block 30 kilograms lighter.

Yet they were still not in Lelystad, for the previous D8 had a more compact four-cylinder engine (the 1.8 T from the Audi TT). Donkervoort builds his cars so that they not only like a glove to the driver (and passenger) to fit, also for the engine block, there is exactly enough space, and not more than that. Extra inches to reserve for blocks that may have to come again, also means extra weight and they are at Donkervoort allergic to.

Carbon, carbon, carbon
Everywhere you look is carbon fiber to be found and no, this looks, this time not for the show. On the base frame and the tubular steel frame is almost the whole car of koolstofvezelcomposieten made. One of the highlights of the gull-wing doors that are crafted out of one piece including the hinge! Only 980 grams, that work of art, but they can still be a sideways blow of about 1500 kilos resist. On earth do you find this technology of anything else, because only in the space go to manufacturers so far.

Hear the wind blowing….
The only real disadvantage of the D8 GTO. Both cameraman Martijn if I torenden the top of the window, 80 feels therefore as 180, 130 as if you were in a hurricane, go skydiving. Sunglasses, and headphones were dancing on our heads as if we were at sea a zuidwesterstorm braved. A full face helmet and/ or vliegeniersbril is no unnecessary luxury. In short: are you taller than 185 centimeters, then you certainly have proefzitten and drive. Donkervoort can still do much to the seating position, but there are also limits to the physical capabilities of a D8. Movie!

Gallery: Donkervoort D8 GTO Performance

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