Ollie Kew: TG’s deputy editor is full of praise for Donkervoort’s light approach
The original Mr Donkervoort Snr set up his dream car company by importing Lotus Sevens and modifying them for European sale.
Steadily, they got beefier and angrier, then his son morphed the company into a supercar upstart.
But where Koenigsegg and Pagani have fallen headlong into the clear coat carbon and platinum switchgear rabbit hole, Donkervoort is fighting the good fight at heart: we’re talking Audi RS6 gobs of power in a machine that weighs half a tonne less than an A3, with a gnarly ‘no thanks’ attitude to driver aids.
The cutest thing here? The P24 is named after the boss’s daughter Phébe, and the year of her birth. Awww.
Greg Potts: TG’s digital features editor is bored by this game of spot the difference
“No other supercar looks like the individualistic Donkervoort P24 RS,” reads the press release for this new Dutch lightweight.
But hang on, because I’m already struggling to spot any real visual differences between this and the previous F22.
Even the interior is pretty much identical, right down to the damping/traction dials on the centre console and the iPad mini plonked in front of the passenger.
OK, the additional aero kit bits are new, but do you really want to be getting the spanners out before every track day when you’ve dropped £300k on the car with a few optional extras? And does anyone really need 770bhp per tonne from what is essentially an oversized shoe?