Isdera Commendatore

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It’s not often you meet a car that’s a cross between a Mercedes Gullwing CW 311 and a batmobile. But that’s what the ridiculously strange and exotic Isdera Commendatore is. With all the subtlety of a rally at Nuremberg and an air brake – the sort of analogue tech that makes a rear parking camera look crass – the commendatore was for true freaks of nature: folks who like to pay through the nose for exotic, for exotic’s sake.

And the thing is that in the early nineties, when the car was designed, there wasn’t exactly a lot of hypercar competition. This was the depths of a recession almost as bad as the one in which we currently find ourselves: and it doesn’t take a genius to imagine why you don’t see many of them down at the local Waitrose. Even if you live in an area posh enough to actually have a Waitrose.

It had a Mercedes V12 and apparently enough gumption to get from 0-60 in 4.7 and a top end of 212 MPH. It is reckoned that only 70 Isderas have been sold since launch. Please send in pics if you ever get to see one.

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2 Responses to “Isdera Commendatore”

  1. Lefreudian

    beautiful boatlike lines. this car still looks fresh today. ‘bring it back!’ i say.

  2. Acneedham

    I remember this car….it was included as a car you could drive in the computer game Need for Speed II SE