Spyker Cars says "enough is enough" to Dagens Industri

Spyker CEO, Victor Muller, has apparently had enough of the raw speculation churned out by Dagens Industri (DI), the tabloid style financial paper in Sweden.

Although they have worked cohesively in the past, today the newspaper published a strongly opinionated and negative article about the ownership structure and funding of Saab Automobiles specifically aimed at Vladimir Antonov. Both Spyker and Saab claim the article lacks any factual basis and have decided to stop all interactions with the Swedish publication.

"Spyker and Saab have always been open towards the newspaper and have never ceased to respond to any questions posed by Dagens Industri," Says Victor Muller, CEO of Spyker and Chairman of Saab. "However, the result of this cooperation has been a series of speculative and often negative articles related to the ownership structure of Saab and the relationship with Vladmir Antonov in particular.  These articles have been lacking facts and have been damaging for Spyker, Saab and Vladimir Antonov.  As a consequence, we will with immediate effect stop all interactions with Dagens Industri. It is unfortunate that we need to take such steps, but enough is enough."

The article, as described here begins itself as a theory, which by any news standard is a fairly weak opening, and in my "theoretical opinion" deserves the obligatory glove slap by Spyker.