Spyker has revised their offer for Saab after Genii Capital – backed by F1’s Bernie Ecclestone – submitted a last minute bid for the Swedish car maker. I think if we tried really hard we could be doing at least one story a day on the saga that is the sale of Saab by GM. […]
Victor Muller on Spyker’s plans for Saab
Victor Muller – CEO of Spyker – is still very bullish about the prospects of Spyker acquiring Saab from GM. So bullish, in fact, that he’s been speaking about the plans he has for the future of Saab under Spyker. You won’t be astonished to learn that Victor wants to rebuild Saab around the 9-3, 2010 9-5 and the 9-4X. Like […]
Save Saab campaign hits the web – I won’t buy from GM!
The internet campaign to save Saab from GM’s clutches is now in full swing. We have a video and links to ‘I won’t buy from GM’. We ran a report the other day on what we see as GM trying NOT to sell Saab. It seems as if they are intent on NOT agreeing a […]
Are GM trying NOT to sell Saab?
We’re beginning to wonder if GM actually wants to sell Saab. There have been one or two very serious offers, but GM seem to be putting obstacles in the way of a sale. We first began to wonder if GM really wanted to move Saab on when the well-funded and completely kosher offer from Koenigsegg was shown […]
Spyker Saab deal back on?
Spyker boss Victor Muller has submitted a new offer to GM for Saab addressing every issue that was causing the deal to fail It’s all of 48 hours since we had a press release from both GM and Spyker saying that they couldn’t reach agreement on the sale of Saab to Spyker and all bets […]
Saab is Dead – Spyker pulls out
Spyker has pulled out of negotiations to buy Saab from GM, who have announced that Saab will now cease to trade and be wound down. Saab has been in intensive care for what seems like forever. Last profitable around the time the dinosaurs died out it has been kept alive in recent years with funds from US […]
Spyker bids for Saab – Merbanco out
It’s being reported that Spyker has submitted a bid to buy Saab and that Merbanco has pulled out of negotiations. Blimey, it gets more bizarre all the time. On the face of it the bid by Koenigsegg for Saab seemed like a big stretch for a small – although successful – supercar maker. When we […]
CPP Manufacturing – the hidden car maker
CPP (Manufacturing) Ltd are to take over production of Spyker Cars. But who are they, and what other cars do they build? Earlier today we ran a story on Spyker relocating manufacturing to the UK. Not to a new manufacturing plant owned and operated by Spyker, but to the home of CPP Manufacturing Ltd in […]
Spyker C8 Aileron Spyder Press Release
World Debut of the Spyker C8 Aileron Spyder PEBBLE BEACH, California (15 August 2009) – Spyker Cars, manufacturer of exclusive, hand-crafted sports cars since 2000, today introduced the first prototype of the Spyder version of its all-new second-generation sports car, the Spyker C8 Aileron. The Spyker C8 Aileron Spyder was unveiled at the Spyker lounge […]
Spyker C8 Aileron Spyder – Pebble Beach Debut
As we saw back at Geneva earlier this year, Spyker has stretched and sorted the Spyker C8 to make the Spyker Aileron. And why is that important to Spyker? Simple. Big American bums (‘bums’ in the English sense, not the American!). Americans didn’t fit in to the elegant – but dinky – Spyker C8. So […]