The car looks nice but am i right that the only difference between the LM85, in the latest picture, and a "normal" C8 Laviolette are a rear spoiler and differend paintjob?
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First Spyker C8 Laviolette LM85 SOLD?
"At an opening party last week, a local real estate developer in Tampa bought the first Spyker in Tampa, a C8 Spyder GT2R version painted like a Formula 1 race car that cost $275,000." - High Gear: Dealerships Think Pricy Cars Will Outrun Economy
Thanx to bucciali for providing the linkWinning on sunday, selling on monday!
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Originally posted by Laviolette GT2R View Post"At an opening party last week, a local real estate developer in Tampa bought the first Spyker in Tampa, a C8 Spyder GT2R version painted like a Formula 1 race car that cost $275,000." - High Gear: Dealerships Think Pricy Cars Will Outrun Economy
Thanx to bucciali for providing the link
A C8 Spyder GT2R version painted like a Formula 1 race? sounds like a LM85 Spyder
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LM85 changes sinds first picture
Originally posted by Wouter View Post- The paintjob (what used to be Orange is now Gun Metal)
- GT2 mirrors (only feature in the first two pictures as mentioned in the brochure)
- Rear spoiler (picture 1 not a spoiler, 2 different spoiler, 3 final spoiler)
- Aluminium roof panels in Orange (only in picture 2 as mentioned in the brochure)
- GT2 radiator grille (only in picture 2 as mentioned in the brochure)
Winning on sunday, selling on monday!
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Spyker C8 Laviolette LM85: What a beauty
Man! What a beauty she is!
I just love the orange/ gun-metal gray combo and the black wheels: WOW!
BTW: so we got this from Spykercars website, but I'm guessing we were the first site to discuss it??? :-) (of course we were ;-)
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It is a good looking thing But I think it's a shame that it's not a more hardcore version. All changes are cosmetic only, I'd have expected some weight-savings, power improvements or something like that, but they didn't include those. I thought they said it would have the lemans style grille too, but I don't see it.
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Indeed, it's a looker!
And I totally agree with you. Making a special edition car in honour of your Le Mans participation, you would expect more than an exterior make-over of a standard-spec car.
You're right about the grille, it's a real pity it's not on it. Looks would have been much more agressive.
I guess the development of the LM85 was done in a hurry. Probably just to have a new model they could launch.
Yes, things got a lot calmer & less hectic after the Snoras buy-inn/capital injection. After that, the parts supply could be restored and optimised. This I believe enabled Spyker to focus more on production of current models & development/planning/implementation of the D8 P2P plusAileron.
I guess Spyker tried to do too much with the LM85 model and was forced to tune down its initial plans on it. And thus ended up with a new model where the changes come down to a new colour palette on a chassis&body package that is not new at all.
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Here is a link to the official Spyker C8 Laviolette LM85 brochure: http://spykercars.nl/download/artikel/LM85brochure.pdfWinning on sunday, selling on monday!
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Does the LM85 has a smaller fueltank?
In the official brochure is says the fueltank is 60 litres (15,9 gallons) but when you look on the Spyker website the fueltank of a 'normal' C8 Laviolette is 75 litres (16,5 gallons).
Do any of the owners know how large the fueltank is in their cars? Maybe the 75 liters is a number from the early production cars?
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They also say the front splitter is made of carbon fibre but this one seems remarkably aluminium-ish. that, with the lack of the le mans grille, the le mans side mirrors, extra power and weight savings makes it a bit of a disappointment for me. Well maybe that's not the right word, but I had expected more of it. Perhaps this is a pre-production one though, and the changes might be made to the rest of the 24 cars to be produced.
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