 In 1999, a new company, Spyker Cars, was founded, unrelated to the original company but for the brand name, motto and logo.Before Hendrik-Jan Spijker's death, he and his brother had developed a special relationship with Dutch electrical pioneer, .The Spijker brothers had known Hofstede Crull already when he was a young man racing on the velocipede circuits in the Netherlands and in Germany while he was an engineering student first in Mittweida and later in Hannover at the Technische Hochschule in the 1880s.