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Consumer Reports Cars Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Koenigsegg, a tiny Swedish manufacturer of $1-million exotic sports cars, announced today that it would not buy Saab from General Motors after all. Many observers had questioned whether the tiny exotic car maker that sells 18 cars a year with a staff of 45 could absorb an almost mainstream production carmaker more than 2,000 times its size. Now it would appear the answer is no. GM expressed disappointment...
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Autoblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , Plants/Manufacturing , Saab , Earnings/Financials 2010 Saab 9-5 - Click above for high-res image gallery After riding in on a white horse, Koenigsegg Group AB has pulled out of negotiations to buy Saab from General Motors , leaving the Swedish automaker's future very much in doubt. In a brief statement issued by GM (available after the jump), president and CEO...
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Thermodynamics in hell (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEC 2009. In no particular order, some of the cars that caught my eye. I know there were many many more wonderfull cars, but frankly, my heart just wasn't in it this year. I felt unhappy, tired frustrated, unwell and mentally exhausted. Same as last year... I'm glad we were in for free, and if we don't get free tickets next year... We probably won't bother going. In fact... Even WITH free tickets I...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The Opel Insignia OPC is based on the same platform as the new-for-the-US Buick Regal, but adds the torque-vectoring Haldex AWD system from the Saab 9-3 Turbo X and a 325 HP turbocharged V6. Can anyone say "GNX?" If you read our review of the 2011 Buick Regal , it was pretty plain to see we liked the car a lot. It's probably the most fun, nicest-looking, sporty FWD mid-size sedan in the...
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Kevin Harrington // Marketing // (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
So, Saab have the shiney new Saab 95 and the 93X on display outside the Hilton Hotel, Madrid. Why? Well, they are promoting them to marketers attending the ‘Forum Mundial de Marketing y Ventas’. These delegates come from all over the world. All sensible so far. While here we (I am one of those delegates) are [...]
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Autoblog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Filed under: Car Buying , Saab , Earnings/Financials 2008 Saab 9-3 Turbo X - Click above for high-res image gallery When the automotive history of the last ten or so years is written, one of the most curious chapters will be why big, flush with cash American car companies purchased relatively diminutive, relatively oddball Swedish brands. Ford and Volvo, while still not a match made in heaven, at...
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The Truth About Cars (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The old Saab was virtually perfect. 1988 900 model. Turbo. Convertible. It was as if the vehicle had been taken through a 21 year time warp right to my lot. The prior owner had become tired of frequent $85/hr fixes and now needed a four door instead of two (in Orwellian speak). He traded it [...]
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Leftlane (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The 2010 Saab 9-5 promises to be one of the best vehicles to roll out of Trollhättan, but the all-new sedan is putting the squeeze on Saab’s current lineup. With Saab retooling for the production start of the 9-5, production of Saab’s current models has slowed to a trickle. Saab dealers across the country now [...]
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Autoblog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Filed under: Car Buying , Plants/Manufacturing , Saab , Earnings/Financials 2010 Saab 9-5 - Click above for high-res image gallery With new vehicle production at a trickle, and its dealer network slashed by a third , retailers of the Saab brand are finding inventory shrinking to drought levels. Some of the remaining dealers may even run out of new vehicles before replacements arrive. Point the blame...
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Wheels (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
This week's classic car ad is for an early-60s Saab 95, a.k.a. "the family car with aircraft quality."
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KickingTires (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
We just heard that Saab will cull its dealer base in the U.S. because of slow sales. Its new product lineup kicks off with the 2010 9-5 sedan — check out dozens of pictures of it below — and the...
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Autoblog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Filed under: Government/Legal , GM , Saab 2010 Saab 9-5 - Click above for high-res image gallery According to Automotive News , Federal Express letters arrived at 81 of Saab's 218 dealers on Thursday stating that their franchises had not been selected to move forward and become a dealer for the post-sale entity, Saab Cars North America. The package from General Motors said that Swedish supercar maker...
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TechRadar (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Modern mobile phones can do all kinds of things - including adding to the unemployment queues. When you install an app you're not just getting something that will make your life easier; you're contributing to the ultimate destruction of entire industries. Well, unless you're installing iFart, anyway. There were two excellent examples this week. First, the car price guide Parker's launched a rather...
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eurocarblog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The previous Saab 9-5 will be constructed in China by Beijing Auto (BAIC), which will start assembly operations in the next six months of the old sedan model. The project has come about after BAIC[...]
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
GM's large international operation and the popularity of Buick in China leads to some strange intercontinental platform sharing. We untangle part of the mess below. Currently, Buick is selling the Daewoo Lacetti-based Buick Excelle in China. Yes, this is the same car the Suzuki Forenza was based on. But this is getting replaced! Not by a Daewoo product, but rather by the Buick Ying Lang , which is...
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