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โŸฟ Donkervoort F22 , repurposing concept cars, member updates!

โš‘ My longtime conviction is that if a car manufacturer shows a concept car itโ€™s 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?

Thereโ€™s 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.

contโ€™d below


As unlikely as it may sound, this independent Dutch supercar manufacturer has been around since the late 1970s making driverโ€™s cars.

With the 2023 F22, Donkervoort is introducing an all-new design thatโ€™s larger, more powerful, and fasterโ€”with fewer emissions. The latest in Ex-Core carbon fibre molding technology canโ€™t work miracles: itโ€™s a modest 55 kg heavier, for a claimed total of 750 kg.

A release linked below has more information, including additional detail about the carโ€™s 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 didnโ€™t realize that letters in Donkervoort correspond to family members:

โ€œThe 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 โ€œDโ€ from the D10 lineage onwards came from Denis Donkervoort, now Donkervoortโ€™s 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 โ‚ฌ245,000โ€ฆplus options, customizations, taxes and fees. 50 were sold out when shown as sketches, so Donkervoortโ€™s going to make another 25 (in case you missed that emailโ€ฆ)

โ Donkervoort F22 | Shaping the future and carrying the legacy โ€ข Donkervoort


โ€ข via Twitter

I had a visionโ€ฆand 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 firesโ€ฆ

The good news? Karma prefers efficient EVs.

โ˜ž @banovsky on Twitter


โ€ข via yoshirotten x McLaren Japan

Art cars! Two of them recently dropped, and this is my favourite.

Artist yoshirotten was inspired by Tokyoโ€™s lights, and at first glance Iโ€™ll admit: this art car looked really strange.

When bisected by a horizontal line, the McLarenโ€™s styling appears to give the car a reverse rakeโ€”nose in the air and a butt that squats. At a slight angle is where it looks odd; the GTโ€™s pointy nose and that reddish line gives the illusion itโ€™s longer and more minimal than it is.

Add in those gorgeous synths, plus a few bars of horizontal neon light, and Iโ€™m all in.

I have to reach out to see if this is a one-off or available as an option. In yoshirottenโ€™s post, itโ€™s mentioned (via Google Translate) that the project is a โ€œcar wrapping design with the theme of the light of Tokyoโ€. Art car wraps, I guess theyโ€™ve been reading speedster.news?

โ˜ž @yoshirotten on Instagram

see also :: McLaren GT Taps Graphic Artist YOSHIROTTEN โ€ข hypebeast.com


Car collector and enthusiast @jasdhillon67 recently shared this post about his daughterโ€™s reaction to selling one of his vehiclesโ€”and her reaction when it was brought home again. Cut some onions, then flip to the final frame in this post to watch a video of the reveal. โ€ข via @jasdhillon67 on Instagram

โซธ MEMBERS ONLY :: More on the Amobi Concept Colani 962C by Roy Artisan โ€ข via Artstation

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