Spyker Exotic Dream Car

Being a kid from the 70’s means that as a teen in the 80’s, I lusted over cars like Lamborghini Countach, Ferrari Testarossa and Porsche 959. Today, kids have many more exotic cars to lust over, besides the three I mention, there is Pagani Zonda, Koenigsegg CCX, Bugatti Veyron and Nobles, Marcos and TVR’s. One that I forgot to mention on the list of “lusted cars of today” is the Spyker C8. And I recently had the pleasure to be able to touch and taste the Spyker in a showroom in Scottsdale, AZ.

But first let me tell you about the appearance of the car in person. Photos can’t show you all the details on the car that you see in person. The polished stainless steel ports and exhaust tips, the front cooler in the hood and you can’t help but to notice that there is no door handles. (Hint: to open the door on a Spyker, look at the mirrors). When the single swing arm doors scissors open, the seats are begging you in. With the scissors doors and wide door seal, it’s not an easy car to slide behind the wheel, but I did make it. Once behind the wheel, you don’t want to leave. The polished dashboard and antique white gauges are just amazing to look at. Also love the “flip-switch” starter. What’s also amazing the polished stainless steel shifter linkage that is exposed rather than being covered. The next thing you’ll notice sitting is the pedals at your feet, they are hinged on the bottom. This makes it easy to perform the “heal-toe” method of down-shifting.

One thing I’m disappointed about is the window. This model was a spyder or convertible and the side windows don’t match the top very well. But the split side-windows give a different look.

One more note about the Spyker; while day dreaming at work about owning one, I was doing some digging on there website. Spyker is all about exclusivity, right down to its own personalized web page for the proud new owner. He or she can even watch his car being assembled in the Spyker factory by web cam, which as far as I know, is the only car manufacture that allows you to watch what happens during manufacturing.