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Supercar maker Spyker starts production in UK

By Tim Pollard Motor Industry 10 February 2010 12:29 Spyker is having a busy 2010. Last month it closed the deal to buy Saab from GM; today it built its first car at the new UK factory after relocating from Holland.Spyker Cars is quitting production in the Netherlands to manufacture cars in Coventry – nearer its main supply base in the Midlands.The new Spyker facility switches assembly of the Aileron supercar from Zeewolde to a new 20,000sq ft plant at CPP Manufacturing in Wheler Road, Coventry. The first car went into production today.

UK 2012 car sales analysis: winners and losers

New UK car registrations in 2012 rose to a four-year high, figures released today confirm. Sales jumped 5.3% in the Olympic year compared with 2011 – to 2,044,609 new cars, the largest percentage increase since 2001. Retail sales drove the demand in 2012, growing 12.9% on the previous year.

Renault Kwid Concept is a bonkers baby SUV

The Renault Kwid Concept (pictured) comes with its own flying drone There are concepts of new cars where you can clearly see they’re heading for production, and then there are concepts that look like the designers have been allowed to go berserk with little though to an eventual production car. The new Renault Kwid falls firmly in the latter. Said to be aimed at younger buyers in emerging markets – and designed with Renault’s designers in India – the Kwid Concept comes with a conventional 1.2 litre petrol engine and dual-clutch box – and can take the ZOE’s EV powertrain – but that’s seems to be where any connection with reality ends.