No one needs Champagne

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📍 ‘To buy a Spyker is to believe in magic — and have the patience for miracles.’

Dutch supercar maker Spyker is back — again.
 
Yes, again. A company that’s gone bankrupt more times than most people have changed tyres now claims it’s ‘cleared for take-off.’
 
Founded in 1880, buried in 1926, reborn in 2000, and resurrected more times than Lazarus.
 
Spyker’s tale is one of style, madness, and sheer Dutch bloody-mindedness.
 
Click through for the full saga of glamour, grit, and glorious overreach.
 
(Read On….)

 

Full Story — Chronological Summary

◼︎ 1880: Spyker is founded in Amsterdam. Coachbuilders to the gentry, they were inventors of the first four-wheel-drive car by 1903.

◼︎ 1926: Bankruptcy. Curtains close on the first act of one of motoring’s oldest marques.

◼︎ 2000: Enter Victor Muller, a Dutch entrepreneur with a taste for the theatrical.

Spyker returns with the C8 Spyder — an Audi-powered, scissor-doored sculpture draped in quilted leather and polished aluminium.

Think Art Deco meets afterburner.

◼︎ 2002–2008: A Laviolette coupe, a Double 12 R race car, and the baroque D8 Peking-to-Paris concept follow. Spyker even buys Saab, flirts with Formula One, and hires Zagato — because restraint was never on the options list.

◼︎ 2014: Bankruptcy strikes again.

◼︎ 2016: The C8 Preliator appears at Geneva, shimmering with hope — then gone.

◼︎ 2021: Another collapse.

◼︎ 2025: Muller settles debts, reclaims the brand, and announces, ‘We’re cleared for take-off.’

◼︎ Because in Spyker’s world, failure isn’t fatal — it’s just the prelude to another audacious comeback.
 
📍 ‘No one needs a Spyker. But then again, no one needs champagne — yet both make life infinitely better.’