Chinese motoring press are saying Bristol Cars has been sold to Xinjiang No1 Tractor Company. But the administrators say not. Earlier this month we reported the sad demise of the quirky and eccentric supercar maker that is Bristol cars, forced in to administration through a shortage of equally eccentric millionaires to buy their creations from another time. The good […]
Saab struggles with bills – Vladimir says it’s all fine
Saab has had to halt production twice this week as they ran out of components due to unpaid bills. But Vladimir Antonov says not to worry. I think we all hoped that after the long, painful transition from GM ownership in to new hands at Spyker that things would settle down and Saab would get […]
New Saab 9-3 to get ZF Chassis
Saab are to tie-up with component-maker ZF to produce chassis for the Saab PhoeniX – the next Saab 9-3 Last week the interweb was rife with rumours that Saab were about to hit the skids. A story fuelled by (alright, entirely as a result of) comments attributed to putative investor Vladimir Antonov. Who was clearly mischief making. Amazingly, […]
CPP buys Bowler Offroad
CPP Global Holdings Ltd has taken over Bowler Offroad, makers of bonkers offroad racers. Production will move to CPP in Coventry. Goodness, CPP Manufacturing are busy little bees at the moment. No sooner do we learn that CPP has bought Spyker Cars (well, strictly speaking it’s CPP Global Holdings Ltd who are hoovering up with […]
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 production starts at CPP
Spyker’s founder Victor Muller and Spyker Chairman Vladimir Antonov have joined CPP Manufacturing’s Brendan O’Toole in Coventry to celebrate CPP manufacturing the Spyker Aileron. A few months ago we reported that Spyker were moving production of their cars to the UK, in to the very capable hands of CPP Manufacturing, a Coventry-based specialist company already […]
Spyker Saab deal – the confusion continues
We’re getting conflicting messages from GM and Spyker over whether the deal to sell Saab to Spyker is close to concluding. After we received reports this morning that the deal by Spyker to buy Saab looked to be sorted, we’re now getting totally confused. First we got an email in to say that GM were holding a […]
Spyker buys Saab – deal done?
Spyker boss Victor Muller seems to have concluded a deal with GM to buy Saab in a deal worth around $500 million. In what is probably the most public and drawn out sale of a car maker in history (we came to the conclusion that GM didn’t want to sell Saab) it would seem as […]