Surprise! Spyker is back to hand-build cars and (hopefully) excellent interiors

Your favourite Dutch supercar maker you’d nearly forgotten about has announced it is to begin remaking your favourite Dutch supercars. Welcome, everyone, to Part… IV (?) of That Spyker Show: the founder has apparently cleared the much-loved brand “for takeoff”.

Which means... yes, Spyker’s back! Get ready for (hopefully) exquisitely crafted world-class cabins and more aviation-inspired design than you can shake an aileron at.

“Our founder, Victor R Muller, has reached a settlement securing all Spyker IP rights,” the company said in a social media statement. “After years of challenges, we’re cleared for takeoff.”

Ah yes, ‘challenges’. Safe to say that Spyker – a brand that can trace its heritage right back to 1880 when two brothers started knocking out carriages in the Netherlands and went on to make planes used in WWI – has been through the mill. You know the story: bankruptcies, financial restructures and That Saab Thing.

Now, it looks like it’s all behind them. Apparently said settlement that ends a “years-long legal standoff” means all Spyker’s intellectual property rights and trademarks have been fully released, and Muller and his team can now “focus on producing hand-built super sports cars” again.

Output has of course been sporadic since New Spyker emerged back in 1999. We’ve had the Audi V8-engined C8... and promises of much more: the C12, and the brilliantly awkward D12 Peking to Paris. Let’s see what they cook up this time.

“For the tenacious, no road is impassable,” the company said. “Our motto since 2000 rings truer than ever. More detailed information about our plans will be announced shortly.”