Saab is to re-start production lines and the deadline for bids for Saab has been dropped, according to Saab and Spyker’s Victor Muller. I’m not sure whether to call the sale or not of Saab by GM as a debacle or a soap opera. But it certainly seems to be a huge mess and it […]
Save Saab campaign hits the web – I won’t buy from GM!
The internet campaign to save Saab from GM’s clutches is now in full swing. We have a video and links to ‘I won’t buy from GM’. We ran a report the other day on what we see as GM trying NOT to sell Saab. It seems as if they are intent on NOT agreeing a […]
Are GM trying NOT to sell Saab?
We’re beginning to wonder if GM actually wants to sell Saab. There have been one or two very serious offers, but GM seem to be putting obstacles in the way of a sale. We first began to wonder if GM really wanted to move Saab on when the well-funded and completely kosher offer from Koenigsegg was shown […]
Saab 9-5 and 9-3 Assetts sold to BAIC
It’s been confirmed that Chinese car maker BAIC has bought Saab’s tooling and tech for the old 905 and 9-3. That’s the old Saab 9-5, not the latest 2010 Saab 9-5, just in case you thought GM had gone slightly mad. We reported back at the beginning of October that Saab’s owners GM had done a deal […]
Saab – New bidders surface
With the Koenigsegg deal to buy Saab dead there appear to be two potential suitors for the ailing Swedish car maker – Chinese BAIC and US Merbanco. With the sorry end to Koenigesgg buying Saab this week it was starting to look as if Saab may go the way of GM’s other brand that failed […]
Koenigsegg pulls out of Saab deal
In a surprising move, GM and Koenigsegg have both issued statements revealing that the sale of Saab by GM to Koenigsegg has been called off. Well, knock me down with a feather. We were sure this was one deal that was going to be done – Koenigessg buying Saab, that is – but in a […]
New Saab 9-5. Old Saab 9-5. China bound!
China’s BAIC – minority shareholders in Saab’s putative owner Koenigsegg – are reportedly planning to buy up all the tooling for the old Saab 9-5 and move production to China. Saab has recently revealed the new 2010 9-5 at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Fine car bit appears to be, and we reckon it’s a great […]
Saab heads for China
Saab has big hopes for sales in China with the help of their investment partner Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co (BAIC). Saab has to make a move to mop up new sales wherever it can as it moves under the ownership of Koenigsegg. Its sales have been pretty poor over the last few years and […]