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Trollhättan is a city and the seat of Trollhättan Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 46,457 inhabitants in 2010. It is located 75 km north of Sweden's second-largest city, Gothenburg. Trollhättan was founded by the river Göta älv, at the... location of Trollhättan Falls. The site was first mentioned in literature from 1413. For centuries, Trollhättan was an obstacle for the boats travelling the river, up until a lock system was completed in the nineteenth century. It has since been updated several times and the present locks were finished in 1916. In the late nineteenth century, hydropower was developed in Trollhättan. The Swedish energy corporation Vattenfall took its name from the falls in Trollhättan. Today the city has two operational hydropower stations, Olidan and Håjum. The hydropower has helped the city in its industrial revolution. Trollhättan was granted city rights in 1916 at which time it had about 15,000 inhabitants, now grown to 54,000. The name Trollhättan is translated as "Troll's bonnet".
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Spyker Cars is a Dutch sports car marque. The modern Spyker Cars only has the legal right to the brand name. The company's motto is "Nulla tenaci invia est via", which is Latin for "For the tenacious, no road is impassable". The marque's logo displays the piston engine of an airplane, a reference to the historic Spyker company which manufactured aircraft. In an attempt to save Spyker from bankruptcy, in September of 2011 Swedish Automobile... announced the sale of Spyker to American private equity and hedge fund North Street Capital, LP for €32 million . However it has since been revealed that the transaction did not occur leaving the future of Spyker Cars uncertian. The reborn company was founded by Victor Muller and Maarten de Bruijn in 1999, and since 2000 Spyker has been building exclusive sports cars like the C8 Spyder and the C8 Laviolette . Spyker's history of producing aero engines is reflected in details in these new cars as well as in the logo. The C8 Laviolette and C8 Spyder have a 4172 cc Audi V8 engine delivering 400 bhp , acceleration 0–60 mph in 4.5 seconds and a top speed of 300 km/h .
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