Spyker — the former Saab owner, F1 contender, and builder of aircraft-inspired supercars — has emerged from moratorium and plans to merge with Portland, Oregon electric aircraft manufacturer Volta Volare, said the company in a release on Thursday.
As part of Spyker’s future plans, electrification seems to be the common theme, whether it be for airplanes or automobiles. Now silver-tongued Skyper CEO, Victor Muller, only needs to find an electric train company to complete the set for a modern movie remake.
In a statement posted on the Spyker website, Muller stated:
After winning a long legal battle with just one creditor, we have now finally succeeded in exiting moratorium and we are back in business as a healthy, debt free enterprise. In the coming weeks we will finalize the agreements with investors which were held up for over two month by the protracted litigation. But true to our logo “nulla tenaci invia est via” (for the tenacious no road is impassable) we have persevered and we can now move on and pursue our ambitious goals including the merger with Portland, Oregon based electric aircraft manufacturer Volta Volare.
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In summary, Spyker is back with a vengeance and we look forward to a bright future for the company I founded 15 years ago and which is now set to build sensationally elegant and classy (electric) motorcars and electric planes for decades to come.
Spyker’s new partner, Volta Volare, has one aircraft — the GT4 — that was announced in 2012 with test flights to start that spring. However, we have been unable to verify if any test flights ever took place.
While the news seems rosy at first, I doubt this is the last we will hear of Spyker’s woes.
An electric sports car, wow, what an amazing idea, why hasn’t anyone ever thought of that!
…wait.
I hope that car above is a rendering from the 1990s, because it’s less appealing than a C5.
I always get Spyker and Fisker confused.
What happened to Fisker, anyway?
Fisker folded in 2012 after their battery supplier went out of business. Everything was bought up by a Chinese company afterwards (probably a great investment, pennies on the dollar).
In a few years, Fisker, Spyker, and Tesla might be the “Big 3” of the electric world, even if they’re absorbed by GM, Toyota, and Ford (you never know what the world might bring).
Fisker had fire issues as well. Which is a shame, because the Karma is one of the most beautiful and presence-having vehicles I’ve ever seen.
Dumb car, great photo. Stormlighting.
It looks so old now! I remember seeing it on TG and thinking how cool and retro modern it was. Now it’s just chintzy like a Prowler.
If Spyker builds a BIGGER, better-looking sports car and puts a shitload of power in it, they could be more than just an “option-to-Lotus”.
It’s easy to see why they weren’t selling. THEY SUCK.
Build a “bigger version of a Lamborghini” that a 6’6″ 350 pound man can comfortably fit and put a $100,000 price tag on it.
PROFIT.
Interesting comment. That kind of man is seriously overweight with probable heart problems. He does not need a joyride in a vehicle like this and have a heart attack.
Just saying.
So Arthur Jones is overweight?
“That kind of man is seriously overweight with probable heart problems.”
HAHAHA COTD
An electric Fiero kit-car, not very cool.
What’s the sentence if they get convicted of it?
Looks like the bankruptcy took all their tennis ball launchers.
Spyker brings zero value to the sports car market. Liquidate and move on.
“Zero value”? I bet you’ve never seen one in person. They’re works of art. Like a Pagani at 20% of the price.
I have no idea where the business logic is in merging Spyker with an R&D-stage electric aircraft firm, but I’m rooting for these guys.
Ah, the joys of freshly printed, free money for every illiterate backmarker with an above average penchant for self promotion…..
I’m still stuck on the electric airplane idea. I don’t think I will be an early adopter to that model. That’s a lot of weight to get up in the air.
Merger of equials or how West was won (by Spyker). In few years Spyker will dump Oregon company into bankruptcy. Or vice versa. One airplane inspired company has already passed away. No wait it went electrical post mortem.
“…now set to build sensationally elegant and classy (electric) motorcars and electric planes for decades to come.”
Nope, you said classy, so you have no understanding of said concept. They’ll almost certainly be crap and go bankrupt again.
Some are born to greatness, some acquire it by dint of hard work and dedication.
Some merely assume they are the living embodiment of both, and cannot recognize that running a Mom and Pop corner store properly would overtax their real capabilities.
Victor Muller is such a man, unfettered as he is with any grasp of reality.