RE: Spyker C8 Spyder: Spotted

RE: Spyker C8 Spyder: Spotted

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jazzyjeff

3,652 posts

260 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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Ekona said:
So incredibly ugly, inside and out.
...says the man who drives an Impreza biggrin

At least it looks different, you won't mistake it for anything else!

Life Saab Itch

37,068 posts

189 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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It looks like everything that's bad about the kit car industry today. Unresolved design features, hideous slats and vents everywhere, a diffuser that is huge but won't do anything, high weight for the sporting pretentions...and then you realise that it isn't a kit car.

I can think of many other cars to spend £110k on.

Krikkit

26,544 posts

182 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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Life Saab Itch said:
It looks like everything that's bad about the kit car industry today. Unresolved design features, hideous slats and vents everywhere, a diffuser that is huge but won't do anything, high weight for the sporting pretentions...and then you realise that it isn't a kit car.

I can think of many other cars to spend £110k on.
I can appreciate the styling isn't to everyone's taste, but high weight? You realise it's only 150kg heavier than a Ferrari F40?

Amirhussain

11,489 posts

164 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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I still remember Jeremy Clarkson reviewing this on Top Gear, still unsure about that interior.....

sad61t

1,100 posts

211 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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Bottom of the ad has 109995 and top has 119995, while their own website has 119995.
So either they've noticed the PH ad and hastily put 10K on the price tag, or PH didn't look too closely and have mislead their readership. (And that 10K might cover the first year's insurance...)

Xakid

30 posts

130 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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I like these ridiculous cars - it isn't trying to please 'all of the people, all of the time'. If I had the money, I'm not sure it's what I'd buy, but the world needs cars like this to offset the blandness of a lot of modern sports cars. They sound amazing too, more cars need to have that brawny V8 sound.

disco666

233 posts

147 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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WCZ said:
I like the looks/exclusivity (Zonda interior?) but I'm dubious about the driving dynamics.
I agree, looks great inside and out but, from what I have read/heard, not as good to drive as it's opposition.

Countersteer

146 posts

138 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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Love the interior. So few cars are really bespoke with their interiors. TVR being another. As this is where the driver is to spend most of his/her time, I'm amazed that there aren't more 'off the wall' interiors out there...

m9fdb

24 posts

182 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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Love the Spyker and would defo have one if the lotto win drops in

will_

6,027 posts

204 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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sad61t said:
Bottom of the ad has 109995 and top has 119995, while their own website has 119995.
So either they've noticed the PH ad and hastily put 10K on the price tag, or PH didn't look too closely and have mislead their readership. (And that 10K might cover the first year's insurance...)
Hmm. Pretty sure it was £109k when I looked at the advert earlier.....

Any way for someone at PH towers to check (just out of interest).

JamesHayward

655 posts

165 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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I love these and a definate entry into my lottery win garage. It's the interior that does it for me. That gear linkage sold me.

Life Saab Itch

37,068 posts

189 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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Krikkit said:
Life Saab Itch said:
It looks like everything that's bad about the kit car industry today. Unresolved design features, hideous slats and vents everywhere, a diffuser that is huge but won't do anything, high weight for the sporting pretentions...and then you realise that it isn't a kit car.

I can think of many other cars to spend £110k on.
I can appreciate the styling isn't to everyone's taste, but high weight? You realise it's only 150kg heavier than a Ferrari F40?
It's only got 400hp. Compare that with it's contemporaries, let alone modern stuff and it ain't that clever.

4a4

213 posts

136 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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I have got to add... The rear end is a little bit fussy though...

menoy

142 posts

135 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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Life Saab Itch said:
It's only got 400hp. Compare that with it's contemporaries, let alone modern stuff and it ain't that clever.
Being launched in 2000, its contemporary would have been, for example, a 360 Modena. Same power, 140kg more. So for a few years, it was still in the game. Only later on did it get left behind (at least on stats alone).

anything fast

983 posts

165 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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I really want to like this car, but it just looks odd to me, a bit like a melted Aston Martin.

garypotter

1,506 posts

151 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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So so wrong.

I'm oooot.

Swifty Stig

641 posts

169 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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This Spyker not briefly in FF6?

CooperD

2,872 posts

178 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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I quite like it. It's something a bit different.

Swifty Stig

641 posts

169 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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This Spyker not briefly in FF6?

PGNTuscan

2,935 posts

167 months

Tuesday 8th October 2013
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absoloutely love it......seen a few of these and the looks, noise and interior makes me go weak. One day......