Donkervoort tasked his team to develop the innovative JD70 at their Lelystad headquarters to honor the 41-year-old company’s founder, and it builds on Joop’s commitment to raw driving skill and unfiltered emotions.
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The JD70 will be an evolution of the D8 GTO family, which took Donkervoort into a new stratosphere of supercar-killing performance and has spawned specialized race and track-day versions as well as more comfortable touring editions.
Like the D8 GTO, the JD70 will keep its weight below 700kg through Donkervoort’s lightweight EX-CORE® carbon-fiber technology, adjudged so clever it earned the company a European Union innovation grant.
EX-CORE® will not only make the JD70 astonishingly light, but immensely strong and fully compliant with the European Community’s Small Series type approval crash regulations. It’s also clean enough to comfortably pass the EU6D-temp emissions rules.
The Donkervoort D8 GTO JD70 will also swim against the mainstream sportscar tide by minimizing electronic driver aids to maximize the challenge, involvement and purity for its drivers without compromising comfort.
It will be a supercar for people who ache for the days of heightened senses and utter purity of unfiltered driving experiences, allowing drivers to form an unshakeable bond with their machines.
Like all other Donkervoorts, the JD70 ownership will open a door to a broad range of track days, driver training options, touring and travel events as well as immediate membership of the extended Donkervoort family – both literally and corporately.
Deliveries of the JD70 will run across 2020 and 2021 and the new supercar can be pre-ordered from Donkervoort starting from today.
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The video below tells the story of what led to the foundation of Donkervoort Automobielen. Joop Donkervoort gives a very personal insight into his inspiration, from the Rolling Stones to Colin Chapman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJgFwjxAW34&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=Donkervoort+News&utm_campaign=844a35d30d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_22_11_34&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a578685ba5-844a35d30d-316959813
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Happy Birthday Joop!