Bye bye Saab

[SVOboy]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/19/bu...19saab.html?hp

Evidently GM is dumping Saab after never finding a buyer. I can't say I'm particularly sad, but I wonder how all the cyclists will get to races without their station wagons. Maybe they'll all have to buy volvos from now on?

[RobertSmalls]

Originally Posted by SVOboy

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/19/bu...19saab.html?hp

Evidently GM is dumping Saab after never finding a buyer. I can't say I'm particularly sad, but I wonder how all the cyclists will get to races without their station wagons. Maybe they'll all have to buy volvos from now on?

Lol... cyclists do like Swedish wagons. I dunno, maybe Subaru will move in on that lucrative market.

[mcrews]

I had a girlfriend who drove a saab. She lived in a converted train caboose.

Guess Saab had a tough time targeting that particular customer.....

And I never understood that the key to start the car being located on the floor near the shifter. I always wonder what would happen if I spilled mt 64oz Bog Gulp....

[SVOboy]

I know a few with subarus but I chalk it up to living in NH, where 60% of all cars are subarus

[SentraSE-R]

Saab will live forever in the memories of ice racers, with their quirky three cylinder, two stroke legends.

[thatguitarguy]

Subarus are also very popular in Colorado. They are good mountain cars.

Wasn't there already a Saab-aru??

My Town & Country gets as good as, if not better than, mileage than my Subarus did. And it's a lot easier to put the bikes inside than on top.

[Christ]

Great! Saab leaves the market, and I get all those good engines to pick through when the cars get junked after noone will buy them from the dealer lots because they no longer have any sort of dealer network to work on them.

Imagine all those turbos, engines, etc... and they all fit in other GM cars!

Ironically, I was just looking into a Saab 3.0 V6 yesterday... it will bolt into my Geo Storm. (With long enough gears, I could have a "fun" car that still gets decent fuel economy. Rather find a diesel, though.)

[gone-ot]

...SAAB started off as an airplane company--hence the name: Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget (SAAB), was founded in 1937, its primary aim was to meet the need for a domestic military aircraft industry in Sweden (WWII was looming on the historical horizon).

...my Dad owned two of the small SAAB-95s: a white one with the 3-cylinder 2-stroke engine, and a second, blue one, with the 'Ford Industrial' street-sweeper V4 engine.

...the unkind "joke" about them was: "...owning a SAAB was a SOB story."

...they, however, DID make a darn good jet fighter, the VIGGEN!

[Christ]

I like some of the later Saab cars. The odd shape was a good turn for me.

[Peter7307]

No real suprpise there...who is going to pony up for a company making losses 19 years out of 20 (or what ever the actual numbers were)?

The only real surprise for me was it lasted as long as it did.

Pete.