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Donkervoort

Donkervoort Automobielen BV is a producer of sports cars based in Lelystad

Lelystad

Lelystad is a municipality and a city in the centre of the Netherlands, and it is the Capital of the province of Flevoland. The city, built on reclaimed land, was founded in 1967 and was named after Cornelis Lely, who engineered the Afsluitdijk, making the reclaiming possible....
in The Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
. This car brand was founded in 1978 by Joop Donkervoort.

In 1996, Donkervoort's Ford Zetec engine

Engine

An engine is a mechanical device that produces some form of output from a given input.An engine whose purpose is to produce kinetic energy output from a fuel is called a Wiktionary:prime mover; alternatively, a motor is a device which produces kinetic energy from a preprocessed "fuel" ....
s were replaced by Audi

Audi

AUDI AG, is a Germany car manufacturer which produces cars under the Audi brand, . The name Audi is based on a latin translation of the last name of the founder August "Horch", itself the German word for ?hear." Another explanation for the origin of the name is as an acronym for ?Auto Union Deutschland Ingolstadt."...
engines

The car is based on the Lotus Seven

Lotus Seven

The Lotus Seven was a small, simple, lightweight two-seater open-top sports car produced by Lotus Cars between 1957 and 1972.It was designed by Lotus founder Colin Chapman and has been considered the embodiment of the Lotus philosophy of performance through low weight and simplicity....
. One of the differences is a redesigned nose cone

Nose cone

The term nose cone is used to refer to the forwardmost section of a rocket, guided missile or aircraft. The cone is shaped to offer minimum aerodynamic resistance....
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Donkervoort Automobielen BV is a producer of sports cars based in Lelystad

Lelystad

Netherlands

Engine

Audi

Lotus Seven

Nose cone

The term nose cone is used to refer to the forwardmost section of a rocket, guided missile or aircraft. The cone is shaped to offer minimum aerodynamic resistance....
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Models

Vehicle	Year	Engine
S7	1978-1984	2 litre Ford OHC engine, 110 bhp Horsepower Horsepower is the name of several non-International System of Units units of power . It was originally defined to allow the output of steam engines to be measured and compared with the power output of draft horses....
S8	1985-1989
S8A	1985-1993
S8AT	1986-1994	Garret T3 turbocharger Turbocharger A turbocharger, or turbo, is a gas compressor used for forced induction of an internal combustion engine. Like a supercharger, the purpose of a turbocharger is to increase the mass of air entering the engine to create more power.... , intercooler Intercooler An intercooler, or charge air cooler, is an air-to-air or air-to-liquid heat exchanger used on Turbocharger and Supercharger internal combustion engines to improve their volumetric efficiency by increasing intake air charge density through Isochoric process cooling.... , 3 way catalytic converter Catalytic converter A catalytic converter is a device used to reduce the toxicity of emissions from an internal combustion engine. First widely introduced on Mass production automobiles in the United States market for the 1975 model year to comply with tightening United States Environmental Protection Agency regulations on auto exhaust, catalytic converters a... , as a 2.0 L engine/ 190 bhp as a 2.2 L
D10	1988-1989	2.160 cc Garrett T3 Garrett Systems Honeywell Turbo Technologies is a unit of the Honeywell Transportation Systems division of Honeywell International. Formerly a manufacturer of turboprop engines and a pioneer in numerous aerospace technologies, the company has continued to manufacture high-end turbochargers and components for the automobile and truck industry.... turbocharger,
D8 Zetec	1993-1998
D8 Cosworth	1994-1998
D8 Audi (AGU)	1999-2002	turbocharged 1.8 L Audi engine, 150-245 bhp,
Audi (E-gas)	2003-present	turbocharged 1.8 L Audi engine, drive by wire Drive by wire Drive-by-wire, DbW, by-wire, or x-by-wire technology in the automotive industry replaces the traditional mechanical and hydraulic control systems with electronic control systems using electromechanical actuators and human-machine interfaces such as pedal and steering feel emulators.... , 150-210 bhp,
D8 270 RS	2005-present	turbocharged, 1.8 L Audi engine, drive by wire,
D8E 280	2007-present	turbocharged, 1.8 L Audi engine, drive by wire, Special
Donkervoort D8 GT	2007-present	turbocharged, 1.8 L, 20v Audi engine, drive by wire,

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