There's Such A Thing As Too Much Dash-to-axle And It Looks Like The Donkervoort P24 Rs

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In automotive design, there's thing called a dash-to-axle ratio. It's nan distance from nan dashboard to nan beforehand axle of nan car, compared to nan region betwixt nan 2 axles (the wheelbase). Commonly this is a motion of luxury, opulence and performance, typically pointing to a larger motor and rear-wheel-drive layout. More dash-to-axle is usually amended than less, but location comes a constituent wherever it each conscionable gets absurd and comical. That constituent is this, nan Donkervoort P24 RS, and I emotion it truthful much. 

Donkervoort has ne'er made a normal-looking conveyance since its founding, and nan institution will beryllium damned if it's going to commencement now. The Dutch automaker builds its cars agelong and debased (and now pinch colored c fiber), but nan proportions connected nan P24 RS look for illustration nan astir utmost yet. The driver of this small roadster almost sits connected nan rear axle, which must make for a wholly different driving experience. I don't person nan creation knowledge to opportunity whether this car looks objectively Good aliases not, but I tin surely opportunity that it's truthful absurd that it makes maine smile. 

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Subjectively, though, nan P24 RS turns Donkervoort's agelong hoods into self-parody. Does a V6 motor require this overmuch space? Absolutely not! And yet, I'd beryllium upset if nan Dutch didn't springiness that mill its adjacent stock of room to breathe, because that move near america pinch this comedian shoe-looking sports car. It's conscionable comically long, and I want one. I don't moreover request nan afloat 600 horsepower and 590 pound-feet of torque from nan 3.5-liter twin-turbo V6 that Donkervoort hid distant nether nan acres of hood abstraction present — honestly, a smaller motor mightiness make it moreover funnier. 

The Donkervoort P24 RS is, for illustration everything other Donkervoort makes, an perfectly batshit conveyance built for 2 purposes: Going fast, and looking bully doing it. This caller exemplary cranks that second dial to 11, and successful doing truthful creates thing truthful over-the-top that I can't thief but grin each clip I glimpse up astatine that rear-three-quarter property shot. It's truthful absurd, it loops each nan measurement backmost astir to being brilliant. 

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Donkervoort claims nan P24 RS weighs 1,720 pounds, though nan institution states that's a barren fig — it doesn't specify weight pinch fuel, oil, aliases different specified luxuries. Lest you beryllium concerned that specified lightness would discuss high-speed stability, though, nan institution besides offers an aero package that adds astir 200 pounds of downforce astatine 155 mph. I wonderment really overmuch of that weight is successful nan hood alone. It can't beryllium negligible.

The zero-to-60-mph clip for nan car is conscionable listed arsenic "appropriately quick," though Donkervoort claims it'll deed 124 mph successful 7.4 seconds. The institution besides says nan P24 RS will propulsion 2.3g of cornering force, which apparently necessitated nan motor usage a dry-sump oiling strategy to support unit — a setup that conveniently allowed Donkervoort to further little nan car's halfway of gravity. Yet, contempt each that race-derived tech, nan car only runs a five-speed transmission. There wasn't room for 1 much cogwheel down that agelong nose?

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Donkervoort says nan P24 RS's turbos are wholly unsocial billet units, which "do not stock parts pinch immoderate different accumulation turbocharger." Those turbos make 17.4 psi of boost, a number acquainted to each EJ25-powered WRX proprietor looking to not rustle nan extremity caps disconnected their banal intercooler, though nan Donkervoort's cooling is marginally much advances: The car uses 3D printed liquid-to-air intercoolers betwixt nan turbochargers and nan intake manifolds. The engine's headers, too, are 3D printed for manufacturing efficiency. 

The Donkervoort P24 RS is arsenic lightweight and arsenic accelerated arsenic 1 would expect from its $354,000 value tag, though registration successful nan United States apparently requires a "proven process successful collaboration pinch our method partner successful Florida" — a income transportation that sounds much for illustration snake lipid than a supercar. Still, if you want nan Borzoi of centrifugal vehicles, there's nary amended spot to look.