Spyker C8

The Spyker C8 is one of 11 Spyker models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 2000. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Spyker C8 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Hyundai Hyundai Santa Fe, the Honda Honda Fit, the BMW BMW X5 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Spyker C8 reads like this: the record lists its engine as 4.0 L Mader-BMW V8 (Double 12S and 12R) / 4.2L Audi V8 (Twin Turbo or Supercharged in Later versions); quoted output is 400 -; kerb weight is recorded at 1250 -; drive goes through Getrag 6-speed manual / ZF 6-speed automatic; the layout is RMR layout. Worked together, those figures give roughly 320 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Spyker story

Within Spyker's own catalogue the Spyker C8 sits alongside the Spyker 60HP, the Spyker C8 Preliator, the Spyker B6, the Spyker C12 La Turbie. The record names the Spyker Silvestris V8 as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to Maarten de Bruijn / Simon Koop (C8 Aileron, C8 Preliator). Assembly is recorded at Netherlands: Zeewolde.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Spyker C8 costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.