Raise your Heinekens to the sky, esoteric sports vehicle lovers: Spyker is not and never ever was bankrupt. According to the Dutch supercar business, a nearby court has now overturned the company’s bankruptcy ruling from December and rendered the selection “null and void.” Spyker lives! B6 Venators for everybody, ja!
If it were only that simple. While Spyker now claims to have “bridge funding” from an unidentified supply and will settle with its creditors “in a matter of weeks,” the firm has not disclosed where it is going to create the B6 Venator, the $ 187,000 6-cylinder sports-auto notion very first shown in 2013. In response to our concerns about its vacated factory (it was evicted), meager cash flow (roughly the median worth of a U.S. property), a bond program to fund B6 development (don’t ask), and a random merger with a mysterious American electric aircraft business, Spyker told us that CEO Victor Muller “has selected to not give any additional comments at this stage besides the press release issued yesterday” and that “more info shall be provided in due course.” Excellent!
Muller’s current plan is to construct battery-electric Spykers in the “foreseeable future,” by which he may help with yet another bond scheme or stock sale to a Chinese company. Soon after reviewing Spyker’s public financial reports—which the business hasn’t updated in a year and a half—we’re thinking 2015 will not be the year any person methods into a new B6. (May we direct you to the nearest Porsche retailer?) On the flip side, kudos to Spyker for staying above water—for now, at least.
Spyker Update (Spykdate): Swedish Business Declared Not Bankrupt by Dutch Court, Will Develop EVs
