Exotic wheels, chrome exhausts, 400 horses and you drooling. Spyker. Resurrected in 1999, the marque shares only the name with the original that shut shop in the 1920's which is credited with making the first ever four-wheel drive racer. And now they plop Audi V8s and W12s into some spanked out bonnets. But just why am I talking about Spyker? That's because they are heading our way! The V8 powered C8 Spyder and Laviolette will get to scrape our pothole splattered holy land first, after which probably even the D12 Peking-to-Paris, which looks like they just stretched a C8 on photoshop. And before I forget, their cars look a touch quirky with a few chrome touches and overly contoured surfaces, those side-view mirrors looking like they were plucked of the bonnet of some whackoly modded Scorpio. Hopefully the detailing will loook better in the flesh. But it sure does have a neat logo on the bonnet, that propeller dating back to the fact that Spyker made planes preceding World War One.
Check this out. The interesting bit is that they are planning on an engineering design centre! Surprising it seems at first to see a supercar manufacturer extract engineering services in a country whose market is just starting to mature, but on the component level it probably makes sense. You should be able to design a mounting bracket irrespective of the power pumped out by the engine, that’s straight engineering right...well almost! So it's another one to the list of R&D centres setting shop here. Dutch origin, German heart and designed in India. And were you talking about globalization?
The one problem that Spyker might face is that they are not as popular a brand as say Lamborghini or Porsche, which of course would be of prime importance for a buyer in this segment, for a car especially like this one is also a status symbol. Hopefully, their F1 foray will help build them a better brand image.
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