Spiron

Spiron Motor Holdings, led by managing director Nic Deetlefs, was the South African company behind the Phoenix, a sportscar project begun in 1982 by the Pretoria businessman Ben de Klerk. The Phoenix was designed by the Argentine-born mechanical engineer Julio Alcorto, who later also worked on the Mazda Kalahari 4x4, and its fibreglass-clad body was to be made and hand-assembled by a seventy-strong workforce at a plant in Koedoespoort. The…