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Recent media gossip suggesting Saab is set to announce a technology and parts sourcing arrangement with BMW has forced parent company Spyker to release the following statement: “Zeewolde, The...
View ArticleSaab gives 9-4X early preview
Saab’s resurgence shows further signs of progression with these new images of their upcoming 9-4X SUV. It will have a full reveal at the Los Angeles Motor Show in November. For now, though, we’ve got...
View ArticleSaab releases 9-5 SportWagon teaser
Euro wagons are very cool. And Saab wagons have always been up there as some of the coolest. I mean, there’s no better way to lug around your latest flat-pack purchases. So, ahead of the Geneva Motor...
View ArticleGeneva 2011: Saab PhoeniX concept
Saab has released the spectacular PhoeniX concept at the Geneva Motor Show. Apart from being a pretty funky piece of kit, you’re looking at what Saab call ‘aeromotional’ design. The next 9-3 will be...
View ArticleSaab heading back to the future
“Saab is a company that builds cars that cannot make money.” They are the words of Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. Hardly a ringing endorsement for one of Sweden’s most iconic brands. The...
View ArticleSaab shareholder comes to rescue
The Gemini Investment Fund, already a Saab shareholder, has agreed to loan an extra €25 million to ensure Saab can remain solvent in the short term. This follows an earlier €30m loan from Gemini last...
View ArticleSaab: This is the end, beautiful friend
Yes, we’ve done this before, two years ago to the day… Saab has, once again, broken the limits of its owners. This time it’s not GM, like it was in 2009, but current stewards of the Saab brand Swedish...
View ArticleAre we witnessing the start of SAABMW?
A recent blog post at Saabs United has breathed new life into the hope that Saab can emerge from its latest financial despair. Today the bankruptcy administrators held another of their weekly...
View ArticleSaab Cars Museum opens
Saab. Remember them? Well now you can at the official Saab Cars Museum in Trollhättan. True to form the existence of the museum almost fell through, amid controversy which saw its contents put up for...
View ArticleCan Saab rise like Lazarus again?
A newly registered Swedish company has become an unlikely lead bidder to pick over the leftovers of Saab, now in the hands administrators. National Electric Vehicle Sweden is a consortium included the...
View ArticleNEVS bringing Saab back to the future
As we reported last month start-up start-up business National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) emerged as the front runner to buy Saab. Now it’s official, the sale has gone through. These paragraphs...
View ArticleSaab’s rebirth stalls, again
The buyout of Saab’s bankrupted assets by National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) was announced back in June. However, SaabsUnited reports the deadline for the finalisation of that sale has been...
View ArticleBMW kicks Saab while down, asks for €2.6m
BMW is suing one of Saab’s remnant subsidiaries, Saab Automobile Parts AB, to the tune of €2.6m for unpaid deliveries. Back in September 2010 BMW signed a deal with Saab to supply engines and spare...
View ArticleNEVS finalises purchase of Saab’s assets
After a slight hiccup National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB has completed the purchase of Saab’s assets. A statement from NEVS reads: National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB (NEVS) today announced that the...
View ArticleSaab lives on (again)
The rebirth of Saab under the ownership of National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB (NEVS) has taken its first material step with word of 9-3 pre-production models rolling off the factory floor. News of...
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