{"id":9681,"date":"2009-04-19T19:18:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T02:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=9681"},"modified":"2009-04-19T19:18:51","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T02:18:51","slug":"automobile-sports-car-donkervoort-d8-gt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=9681","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Sports Car &#8211; Donkervoort D8 GT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9682\" title=\"d8-gt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/04\/d8-gt.bmp\" alt=\"d8-gt\" \/>Holland may be best known for windmills, tulips and cannabis-serving coffee shops, but a little-known company is looking to change all that with a lightweight sports car that tips the scales with figures comparable to a Formula One racing machine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">From humble beginnings in 1978, Donkervoort has developed a cult following on the Continent, with exquisitely engineered yet wincingly expensive Lotus Seven clones. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still a family concern: Joop Donkervoort is the founder and designer, Denis, his son, drives the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s racing car and Amber, his daughter, staffs the office \u00e2\u20ac\u201d yet they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve turned out more than 1,000 cars from a small factory in Lelystadt, northern Holland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What started out as copies have morphed into cutting-edge sports cars in their own right. In the FIA GT4 European racing championship, prototypes of its latest model, the D8 GT, have mixed it with Aston Martins and Porsches&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/driving\/in_the_showroom\/article6112944.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holland may be best known for windmills, tulips and cannabis-serving coffee shops, but a little-known company is looking to change all that with a lightweight sports car that tips the scales with figures comparable to a Formula One racing machine. From humble beginnings in 1978, Donkervoort has developed a cult following on the Continent, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-new-automobile-products-tests","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9684,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9681\/revisions\/9684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}