DarrenW
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| posted on 21/1/05 at 11:27 AM |
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Faster than Carrera GT!
http://www.vwvortex.com/artman/publish/industry_news/printer_1112.shtml
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alister667
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| posted on 21/1/05 at 12:42 PM |
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Donkervoorts are still pretty expensive AFAIK.
Perhaps we should invent a new measurement unit. Something like "Nurburgring second pounds" where we take the numer of seconds for a lap
of the Nordschliefe and multimply it by the cost price in pounds of the vehicle.
The lowest number is best.
Only problem is My £25 donor Sierra would have been very hard to beat :-)
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flak monkey
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| posted on 21/1/05 at 12:49 PM |
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Very expensive....
"Prices range from € 41.000,- until € 82.500,- excluding taxes. Please contact the factory for an offer of your personified
Donkervoort."
Above taken from their website....
Thats £28,500 - £57,300 +VAT etc
Mind you it does seem as if you can give you car a personality as well....or maybe even make it a fully functional 'person' like a
transformer maybe? 
[Edited on 21/1/05 by flak monkey]
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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DarrenW
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| posted on 21/1/05 at 02:20 PM |
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The price still seems competitive compared to the Carrera which shows the real flexibility of the various se7ens available. Cars like the Donkervoort
also fair well in the build quality stakes against the bigger german manufacturers.
Unfortunately costs of power and performance are very much exponential, i wonder how much it would cost the amateur enthusiast to build something with
teh styling, handling and power that these things have - certainly several times more than the cost of the average locost.
"Nurburgring second pounds" sounds like an interesting concept, but as you say a £25 scrapper that does it in 30 minutes would beat nearly
everything. We could have 'months to build x £ spent x enjoyment factor'
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alister667
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| posted on 21/1/05 at 06:27 PM |
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I'd say £20k should see you with a home made Donkerkiller. :-)
I'd imagine a supercharged Busa in a seven - lets splash out and make it a westfield!
You'd need to fit some aero stuff to it, perhaps a diffuser, rear wing maybe.
Stylish? Well I'd have to admit it would probably look like bugger all, but it would go like shinola through a goose!
OK It'd be debatable if it was much faster, but it certainly wouldn't be *much* slower - at that sort of power/weight a lot depends on the
driver.
If you built the chassis/body work yourself, you could do it all for £10k-15k.
I've seen hillclimbers built something similar (albeit without the supercharger) and they post some very, very sharp times even in comparison to
some very big money Pilbeams up a narrow hilly road.
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