Please look at this picture. Is that not the most amazing car interior you’ve ever seen. It has amazing exposed gear linkages, an astounding steering wheel, puffy smoking jacket inserts in the panels, and it’s just has this presence that makes it so brilliantly unique. And before you say ‘come on, that’s ridiculous, no car needs an inside like that’ please remember that this is from a Spyker C8, a Dutch supercar. Something to be seen in. I reckon that if you were in the line outside some exclusive nightclub being denied entry for four hours, you wouldn’t mind so much when some random bloke and is stunning bird (or the other way around) pulled up in one of them and wandered straight in. You’d reckon, if you were the type of person who’d consider standing in a huge line a wonderful way to spend an evening, that these are people who deserve to wander straight in. You’d be happy to be held up. You’d merely want to be them. Wonderful.
Please now see Exhibit B. Then pull out to see that it’s in an ‘SUV’ (I’ve always hated that idea). Techincally those links are to the concept, but if you head to the main Spyker page and find the D8 Peking to Paris you’ll see that it’s the same as the concept, only instead of vaguely inoffencive beige, it’s horribly vulgar orange. Ugh. I realise that these guys are Dutch and as such I’m contractually obliged to infer that they were influenced by some form of illicit substance at the time of designing it, but still.. whiskey tango foxtrot. Is that not the most ridiculous and vulgar interior to a car that you have ever seen? Stupid shiny chrome everywhere, only four seats possible due to the ridiculousness of it all, scaffolding to hold the roof up… If someone showed up to the aformentioned nightclub in this Spyker, you’d run over and punch him in the face. Hell, if Ghandi rocked up in one of these you’d punch him in the face. No question, he’d be in hospital shortly after exiting the vehicle. And no jury in the world would convict you. It’s ridiculous! We all know that these luxo SUV things are pointless, but this one really takes the cake.. and in the case my friends, the cake exists in all it’s moist, tasty goodness.
Apparently the guy that started the new Spyker (the brand originated in the very early 1900s) left due mainly due to the D8 SUV model. I’m with him. In all aspects C8 (the supercar awesome model) I’m with them, but the D8 should be spurned more than any other car available today. By all means spit on X5s, MLs, Q7s, all of those.. but scar and slash and D8 that you may see. Please, for the good of taste.