[nggallery id=1435 template=customlinks] Victor Muller’s Spyker is a surprise exhibitor at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show in a few weeks, and the general consensus is that means the debut of an electric Spyker. Victor Muller’s escapades over the last few years – including his Saab adventure – have pretty much left him back where he […]
Spyker & Youngman D8 SUV & Phoenix Joint Venture
Spyker and China’s Youngman are launching joint ventures to build the Spyker D8 SUV and develop the Saab Phoenix platform. Did you really think Victor Muller would come out of Saab with nothing? Especially after he told is in April he was looking for investors to push the Spyker D8 SSUV in to production? Muller’s Spyker and China’s Youngman […]
Is Saab doomed because Victor Muller wants to have his cake & eat it?
As the Saab Saga gets sillier by the day, we wonder if Victor Muller is the destroyer of Saab, rather than its saviour? And of Spyker too? Victor Muller is a charming and charismatic man, as evidenced by the endless stream of seemingly sensible business people he’s persuaded to invest in Saab, and other Muller […]
Saab 9-2 to use MINI platform – if Saab survives
Saab is still trying to find a solution to its liquidity problems, and reports that the Saab 9-2 will use the current MINI platform. Things are still torrid for Saab, with big lumps of downtime at Trollhattan as they struggle to get suppliers to deliver parts when those same suppliers are already owed big chunks of money. The […]
Saab close to collapse? No, says Victor Muller
Victor Muller has declared Saab is not close to collapse – despite production being halted last week – and will soon get additional funding from Vladimir Antonov. Last week we reported that Saab had stopped the production line because of unpaid bills; suppliers hadn’t been paid, component delivery dried up and cars couldn’t be completed. […]
Spyker sold to CPP
CPP Manufacturing Ltd (Coventry Prototype Panels) are to buy Spyker in a deal worth €32 million Well, we didn’t see that coming. CPP are buying Spyker. We’re big fans of CPP (Coventry Prototype Panels) and their immense skill set, not just in putting together some of the most beautiful cars in the world, but creating some of the most […]
Saab: GM decides Vladimir Antonov is a good guy after all
GM has decided that Spyker backer Vladimir Antonov is not a ‘Red under the Bed’ or the Russian Mafia’s banker after all. So now they’re happy to bank his money. Some detected the odour of McCarthyism when GM told Spyker there could be no deal on Saab unless it showed major backer Vladimir Antonov the door. Which seemed […]
Spyker network grows through Saab
Victor Muller is growing the Spyker dealer network by adding Spyker franchises at suitable Saab dealerships. The network will grow to 90 by 2011. Victor Muller has been a very busy boy this last six months in his quest to take control of Saab. So you may be forgiven for thinking that the company that […]
Saab 92 coming – it just needs a platform
Saab are planning a premium compact car – The Saab 92 – for production by 2013. They will confirm details in the next 100 days. Victor Muller – the man who saved Saab from GM’s closure plans – wants the company to build a compact premium car, something we’ve know since before he managed to […]
Saab production starts – 2010 Saab 9-5 first off the line
Production at Saab has now restarted under the ownership of Spyker, with a 2010 Saab 9-5 being the first off the production line today. It’s been a long and sometimes fraught road back to production for Saab. Almost sinking in to oblivion after GM decided to wind it down after failing to secure a buyer who would […]