Had a chance to visit the Donkervoort factory yesterday
Donkervoort has been building the very best Super7 for 26 years now

Very clean operation!
The tubeframe chassis weighs only 90#
Total car is in the 1200# region (600kg)
and is available with the Audi 1.8 4 cilinder turbo engine in either 150, 180 or 210bhp trim
Also an Audi 2.8 6 cilinder is an option

Check the pics of the cup-racer... it has pushrod actuated shocks
(shocks on all models are adj. for bounce and rebound)

Also shot some pics of a couple of proto-types they were working on (one is a non-cabriolet)

They are expensive as hell (about twice a DIY kitcar super7) but the build quality is second to none and it's very highest evolution of the Super7 available

Oh... and notice the rear brake caliper!
It's got a cable operated handbrake.

cheers,

Jeroen

Coupe prototype

Coupe prototype

Another proto

rear brake caliper (sorry for the "andy style" pic )

Cup racer with Audi V6

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that rear brake caliper looks a bit like the VW A2 GLI caliper...

Are you going to buy one in time for my summer visit? I would love to test drive that car, Jeroen.

Geoff

Sweet. Great way to spend a Saturday.

Are they street legal and/or importable to the US?

The pictures make my blood boil. The thoughts about driving that beastie..

They are street legal here in Europe. Dunno what it would take to get them streetlegal in the US (or if possible at all)
Here's the manufacturer's website: www.donkervoort.nl

Geoff, the factory is actually pretty close to where Moniques family lives (Lelystad)

cheers,

Jeroen

Oh good, I'll make sure I bike over there if its not too far. Cars are hard to borrow even from family. Forget the bike its too far, I'll get a friend in Almere to take me.

Geoff

I have an acquaintenance who just finished a Caterham 7 (Lotus 7). I asked for pics, but he doesn't have a digital camera.

Anyways... they're pretty cool kit cars. Any relation to the Dutch Super 7?

http://www.uscaterham.com/

-Rusty

Donkervoort actually started out with a Caterham kit 26 years ago
He didn't like the quality and changed many features on it

His results were so good that people started to show interest in his car, so he started building them. Rest is history

The first couple of years they were available as a kit, but he hated the idea of some hack putting it together and then putting the Donkervoort name to it. So he stopped selling them as a kit.

He made huge improvements over the years (and is basically always developing new/better ideas)

If the Catherham is road legal in the US, the so should a Donkervoort be...

cheers,

Jeroen

Heej Jeroen,

did you get the opportunity to drive in one or to get a ride?
I didn't drive one myself but I've been given a ride in one, and boy do these things go!
If you think a 914 is low, this will rock your wourld!
Too bad my uncle decided it was too scary, so I never got to drive it myself
O well who knows, maybe sometime in the future, I'm still young....

by the way, the door mechanism for the coupe is being researched by someone from my faculty, they showed the prototype some time ago in the main hall of our faculty.

greets
Jacco de Haan
Delft, the Netherlands