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title: "Drive Wire: The Donkervoort D8 RS Is An Audi-Powered Monster"
description: "Cars, Culture, and the People Who Make Both. Your Destination for All Things Automotive."
date: "2016-05-06"
modified: "2016-05-06"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff.md"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/3359/drive-wire-the-donkervoort-d8-rs-is-an-audi-powered-monster"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Audi"
  - "Donkervoort"
---

# Drive Wire: The Donkervoort D8 RS Is An Audi-Powered Monster

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Remember Donkervoort? They make the D8, a modernized Lotus Seven that also kind of looks like a wingless x-wing crossed with an anteater. Well, the company has a new version called the D8 RS powered by a turbocharged 2.5L Audi engine, which Audi has gotten up to 400 horsepower. That’s a lot of go in a motorized Radio Flyer, so there’s also a new suspension, wider track, bigger brakes, and all the requisite stuff. Donkervoort is making 40 of these for a little over a 170,000, and they’re half sold already, so get your order in now.

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