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Spyker, the long-troubled Dutch sports car company, has been saved from bankruptcy. Again. The company’s founder, Victor Muller, has secured the brand’s intellectual property rights and will now “focus on producing hand-built super sports cars,” according to a social media post.    Spyker was originally revived in 1999 by Muller, but a botched Saab acquisition over a decade later would force the company to financially restructure in late 2014. Operations would resume by the end of 2015, with the C8 Preliator revealed a year later at the Geneva Motor Show.    But things wouldn’t last. By 2021, investment from investors…

Inside, it’s all very bZ4X. If you’re being charitable, you’d say it feels robust. The dashboard and door cards are composed of Toyota’s trademark blend of 11 textures of grey rubber, which doesn’t feel cheap but is far from upmarket. The centre console ticks all the practicality boxes, including the lack of fingerprint-prone surfaces, but goodness it’s dull.Not to sound ungrateful, but the area in which Toyota has tried to be a bit zany hasn’t really worked. Like on the bZ4X, it does the Peugeot-style thing of having a high-set instrument cluster with a small steering wheel. While I didn’t…