
๐๐ก๐๐๐ผ๐ ๐๐๐: Smooth operators
โ My longtime conviction is that if a car manufacturer shows a concept car itโs never going to build, that design should quickly enter the public domain. Give companies three years, five years, or 10: build it or allow someone else to.
Why?
Thereโs an incredible number of past concept car designs that could be adapted to vehicles currently on the road as those vehicles approach the end of their first life, years later.
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As unlikely as it may sound, this independent Dutch supercar manufacturer has been around since the late 1970s making driverโs cars.
With the 2023 F22, Donkervoort is introducing an all-new design thatโs larger, more powerful, and fasterโwith fewer emissions. The latest in Ex-Core carbon fibre molding technology canโt work miracles: itโs a modest 55 kg heavier, for a claimed total of 750 kg.
A release linked below has more information, including additional detail about the carโs active suspension, custom Nankang tires, and more powerful AP Racing brakes.
More about its name: F22 sounds like it was inspired by an aircraft, however, F - Filippa. I didnโt realize that letters in Donkervoort correspond to family members:
โThe F22 is named after Filippa, born this year as the first child of Donkervoort Managing Director Denis Donkervoort. The Donkervoort S8A and the S8AT were both named for Amber Donkervoort, the daughter of Donkervoort founder Joop Donkervoort. The โDโ from the D10 lineage onwards came from Denis Donkervoort, now Donkervoortโs Managing Director. Donkervoort was founded by Joop Donkervoort in 1978, and it is still owned by the Donkervoort family.โ
To put your name on the Donkervoort family Christmas card list, start at โฌ245,000โฆplus options, customizations, taxes and fees. 50 were sold out when shown as sketches, so Donkervoortโs going to make another 25 (in case you missed that emailโฆ)
โ Donkervoort F22 | Shaping the future and carrying the legacy โข Donkervoort

I had a visionโฆand the vision said to me the spirits of the crushed GM EV-1s are still out there, currently haunting GMC HUMMER EV owners after causing all those Bolt firesโฆ
The good news? Karma prefers efficient EVs.
โ @banovsky on Twitter

Art cars! Two of them recently dropped, and this is my favourite.
Artist yoshirotten was inspired by Tokyoโs lights, and at first glance Iโll admit: this art car looked really strange.
When bisected by a horizontal line, the McLarenโs styling appears to give the car a reverse rakeโnose in the air and a butt that squats. At a slight angle is where it looks odd; the GTโs pointy nose and that reddish line gives the illusion itโs longer and more minimal than it is.







Add in those gorgeous synths, plus a few bars of horizontal neon light, and Iโm all in.
I have to reach out to see if this is a one-off or available as an option. In yoshirottenโs post, itโs mentioned (via Google Translate) that the project is a โcar wrapping design with the theme of the light of Tokyoโ. Art car wraps, I guess theyโve been reading speedster.news?
โ @yoshirotten on Instagram
see also :: McLaren GT Taps Graphic Artist YOSHIROTTEN โข hypebeast.com

