First drive: 2009 Spyker Aileron coupe  Different take on Grand
Touring      • SMALL     • MEDIUM     • LARGE  When only 253
cars have been sold in your company’s seven-year history,
virtually any model introduced will be more mainstream.  To say
that Dutch automaker Spyker is a niche company is a massive
understatement. While firms such as Toyota, General Motors and
Volkswagen talk of producing millions of cars annually, Spyker
would be tickled pink if it could eventually produce 400 C8s in
a single year.  It hopes the path to that relative success will
be shouldered by its new Aileron coupe. Designed as a grand
touring sports car rather than the ideologically pure Spyder and
Laviolette, the Aileron boasts both an automatic transmission
and an audio system.  However, before you start thinking the
tiny firm has sold out its purist principles — Nulia tenaci
invia est via, or “For the tenacious, no road is impassable” —
be forewarned that said audio system consists of an amplifier,
an iPod hookup and a singular