The Spyker C12 La Turbie is a sports car produced by Dutch automaker Spyker Cars in 2005 and shown at the Geneva Motor Show. The company initially showed a silver C12 Spyder in December 2004, a project to install the W12 on a long-wheelbase C8 Double 12S chassis with a standard design.[1] But already in the spring of 2005 they presented this model with its distinctive design La Turbie.[2] The name refers to the Spyker C4's victory in the 1922 Mont de la Turbie hill climb race near Monte Carlo.[3]
The LaTurbie was the first version of the C12 platform, being followed by the C12 Zagato one year later, which featured a unique Zagato designed body. Spyker originally planned to produce 25 LaTurbies, however, in October 2007 it was announced that Spyker had cancelled production of all C12 models, including the C12 LaTurbie and its sister model the C12 Zagato, before any cars were produced, in order to focus their resources on other models.