Spyker is currently suffering under the Bugatti Dilemma. To built a Veyron, it costs VW $5MM, and they can sell them for $1.2MM. Development cost are so high that if you have to spread it over a limited amount of cars, its hard to get profitable.
Not knowing any real figures, I figure that they need to built around 250 cars per year to break even. In 2006 that number seemed to be attainable, but before you have reached that point, you need to attract investors to cover the losses.
2007 has been a tough year, and the F1 adventure has given the name Spyker a lot of exposure, but the F1 income that they were counting on did not materialize until the weekend that the sale of the team became final.
Without F1 points, teams are missing out on television rights income and travel money. Together I think that would be roughly 10MM Euro. Surprisingly just the amount they were short for the 2007 season.
Nobody is talking about the "painful" fact that they did end up with a point, but I think that is why, in the final deal, they did get more money for the team.
Anyway, until the additional financing is in place, its going to be hard to produce cars to capacity.
Not knowing any real figures, I figure that they need to built around 250 cars per year to break even. In 2006 that number seemed to be attainable, but before you have reached that point, you need to attract investors to cover the losses.
2007 has been a tough year, and the F1 adventure has given the name Spyker a lot of exposure, but the F1 income that they were counting on did not materialize until the weekend that the sale of the team became final.
Without F1 points, teams are missing out on television rights income and travel money. Together I think that would be roughly 10MM Euro. Surprisingly just the amount they were short for the 2007 season.
Nobody is talking about the "painful" fact that they did end up with a point, but I think that is why, in the final deal, they did get more money for the team.
Anyway, until the additional financing is in place, its going to be hard to produce cars to capacity.
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