{"id":1845338,"date":"2026-03-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1845338"},"modified":"2026-03-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:00:00","slug":"have-your-say-is-donkervoorts-780kg-600bhp-p24-rs-a-hit-or-a-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1845338","title":{"rendered":"Have your say: is Donkervoort\u2019s 780kg, 600bhp P24 RS a hit… or a miss?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ollie Kew: TG\u2019s deputy editor is full of praise for Donkervoort\u2019s light approach<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The original Mr Donkervoort Snr set up his dream car company by importing Lotus Sevens and modifying them for European sale.<\/p>\n

Steadily, they got beefier and angrier, then his son morphed the company into a supercar upstart.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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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\u2019re 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.<\/p>\n

The cutest thing here? The P24 is named after the boss\u2019s daughter Ph\u00e9be, and the year of her birth. Awww.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Greg Potts: TG\u2019s digital features editor is bored by this game of spot the difference<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cNo other supercar looks like the individualistic Donkervoort P24 RS,\u201d reads the press release for this new Dutch lightweight.<\/p>\n

But hang on, because I\u2019m already struggling to spot any real visual differences between this and the previous F22.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019ve dropped \u00a3300k on the car with a few optional extras? And does anyone really need 770bhp per tonne from what is essentially an oversized shoe?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ollie Kew: TG\u2019s deputy editor is full of praise for Donkervoort\u2019s 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-1845338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1845338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1845338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1845338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1845338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}