Spyker Cars
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| Industry | Automotive |
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| Founded | 1999 |
| Founder |
Maarten de Bruijn Victor Muller |
| Headquarters | Zeewolde, Netherlands |
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Key people
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Peter van Erp, COO |
| Products | Sports cars |
| Revenue |
 €6.1 million (2012) |
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(€13.8 million) (2012)
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| Profit |
 (€114 million) (2012)
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| Total assets |
€0.1 million (2012)
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Number of employees
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37 (FTE, average 2012) |
| Parent | Spyker N.V. (1999 – present) |
| Website | spykercars.com |
Spyker Cars (/ˈspaɪkər/, Dutch pronunciation: [ˈspɛi̯kər]) is a Dutch sports car marque. The modern Spyker Cars holds the legal rights to the brand name. The company's motto is "Nulla tenaci invia est via", which is Latin for "For the tenacious, no road is impassable". The marque's logo displays the rotary engine of an airplane, a reference to the historic Spyker company which manufactured aircraft. In an attempt to save Spyker from bankruptcy, Swedish Automobile in September 2011, announced the immediate sale of Spyker to American private equity and hedge fund North Street Capital for €32 million (US$41 million). On December 18, 2014, Spyker confirmed that it deliberately had gone bankrupt, hoping to restructure its finances and getting back on its feet. However, the bankruptcy declaration was reverted early 2015 and the company announced to continue with the production of sports cars.
The reborn company was founded by Victor Muller and Maarten de Bruijn in 1999, and since 2000, Spyker has been building exclusive sports cars like the C8 Spyder and the C8 Laviolette (with its elegant glass roof). Spyker's history of producing aero engines is reflected in details in these new cars as well as in the logo. Before building the C8, de Bruijn had been building small numbers of the Spyker Silvestris, which in many ways foreshadows Spyker's later cars.
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