Spyker Revival Slated For 2022, Three Models Promised

Spyker is reportedly coming back from the dead as a purported press release is claiming an investor group led by Michail Pessis and Boris Rotenberg will revive the beleaguered automaker.

While the release is mysteriously absent from Spyker’s website, it claims a deal was struck on December 20th and will result in the founding of the Spyker Group. Furthermore, it says the company intends to begin production of the B6 Venator, C8 Preliator, and D8 Peking-to-Paris next year.

Victor Muller will reportedly be in charge of the new company and the release says the “investor group already has developed and produced a number of riveted Spykers in so-called BR configuration [presumably named for Rotenberg’s BR Engineering] in their own facilities.”

Also Read: Spyker Reportedly Goes Bust After Partnership Never Materializes

Made in Russia, Engineered In Germany and Russia, assembled in Holland

That’s a little vague, but the release goes onto say future Spyker bodies will be made in Russia, while engineering will be split between Russia and Germany. Final assembly is slated to take place at a new manufacturing facility in the Netherlands and the company intends to rehire as many former employees as possible. There are also plans for new service centers on the French Cote d’Azur as well as near the Belgian, French and Luxemburg borders.

A statement attributed to Muller says, “The collaboration agreement, which we confirmed today, is the starting point to rebuild Spyker as a sports car manufacturer with a more solid foundation than ever before, and with ample access to better technical and financial resources than we ever had to achieve our ambitious business objectives.” He went on to say the company will offer “hybrid solutions in our future models, but the V8 ICE remains at the heart of every Spyker for many years to come.”

Of course, we’ll believe it when we see new cars in production as the original agreement between Spyker, Rotenberg and Pessis was announced in 2020 with the intent to start production the following year. Nothing materialized and the money never came, so Muller reportedly missed a €52,000 ($59,194 / £43,719) payment and this resulted in a bankruptcy filing.

The latest agreement doesn’t sound set in stone either as the purported press release says, “As soon as a written agreement has been reached and the use of the trademark rights has been formally secured, activities can finally restart.”

H/T to Autoblog.nl and RTL Nieuws


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