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Do have a real soft spot for Saab having owned 2 convertibles and an aero coupe, but this is akin to a horror film where despite the baddie being shot, stabbed, hung, blown up and disembowelled - he always comes back for more.
Surely at some time it's time to call it a day and let Saab die with a degree of dignity. RIP.
Surely at some time it's time to call it a day and let Saab die with a degree of dignity. RIP.
Jesus wept talk about deja vu...
Now all we need is some Swedish car obsessed 70's glam rock music fan to start threatening me again and the circle will be complete.
The most interesting thing in that article ( and its being reported elsewhere.) is that Saab the aircraft company, have finally withdrawn the rights to the name so even if NEVS do come back from this they won't be called Saabs anymore.
Can't say I blame them to be honest. I'd have taken it back after the Muller debacle.
Now all we need is some Swedish car obsessed 70's glam rock music fan to start threatening me again and the circle will be complete.
The most interesting thing in that article ( and its being reported elsewhere.) is that Saab the aircraft company, have finally withdrawn the rights to the name so even if NEVS do come back from this they won't be called Saabs anymore.
Can't say I blame them to be honest. I'd have taken it back after the Muller debacle.
The Hypno-Toad said:
The most interesting thing in that article ( and its being reported elsewhere.) is that Saab the aircraft company, have finally withdrawn the rights to the name so even if NEVS do come back from this they won't be called Saabs anymore.
Can't say I blame them to be honest. I'd have taken it back after the Muller debacle.
I agree with both parts of your last statement.Can't say I blame them to be honest. I'd have taken it back after the Muller debacle.
...shuffles in, mumbling about 70s pop stars, stroking cobwebs out of beard......
If anyone still cares?
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/electri...
So that would appear to be finally that. No more 9-3s out of Trollhatten pretending to be electric cars. The whole lot sold off to the Turks to be their peoples car.
That's it. All over. Time to turn out the lights.
.....shuffles off, cackling something about VW's next....
click
If anyone still cares?
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/electri...
So that would appear to be finally that. No more 9-3s out of Trollhatten pretending to be electric cars. The whole lot sold off to the Turks to be their peoples car.
That's it. All over. Time to turn out the lights.
.....shuffles off, cackling something about VW's next....
click
I felt compelled to add a post-script.
I saw a tired looking 9-3 in an underground car park today. A young boy agreed about 7-8 ran past it, stopped, and peered at the badge on the back before turning round to ask his dad:
"What's one of those, Dad?"
"That's a Saab. They don't make cars any more."
And as a passer by who'd stopped in Sainsbury's to get some shopping, nothing to do with the scene... A little bit of me hurt to listen to that sentence.
I saw a tired looking 9-3 in an underground car park today. A young boy agreed about 7-8 ran past it, stopped, and peered at the badge on the back before turning round to ask his dad:
"What's one of those, Dad?"
"That's a Saab. They don't make cars any more."
And as a passer by who'd stopped in Sainsbury's to get some shopping, nothing to do with the scene... A little bit of me hurt to listen to that sentence.
blearyeyedboy said:
I felt compelled to add a post-script.
I saw a tired looking 9-3 in an underground car park today. A young boy agreed about 7-8 ran past it, stopped, and peered at the badge on the back before turning round to ask his dad:
"What's one of those, Dad?"
"That's a Saab. They don't make cars any more."
And as a passer by who'd stopped in Sainsbury's to get some shopping, nothing to do with the scene... A little bit of me hurt to listen to that sentence.
It makes me all the more glad I bought one. I doubt it'll ever be worth much, but it's still nice to know that I own a piece of Automotive History.I saw a tired looking 9-3 in an underground car park today. A young boy agreed about 7-8 ran past it, stopped, and peered at the badge on the back before turning round to ask his dad:
"What's one of those, Dad?"
"That's a Saab. They don't make cars any more."
And as a passer by who'd stopped in Sainsbury's to get some shopping, nothing to do with the scene... A little bit of me hurt to listen to that sentence.
blearyeyedboy said:
I felt compelled to add a post-script.
I saw a tired looking 9-3 in an underground car park today. A young boy agreed about 7-8 ran past it, stopped, and peered at the badge on the back before turning round to ask his dad:
"What's one of those, Dad?"
"That's a Saab. They don't make cars any more."
And as a passer by who'd stopped in Sainsbury's to get some shopping, nothing to do with the scene... A little bit of me hurt to listen to that sentence.
Yup.I saw a tired looking 9-3 in an underground car park today. A young boy agreed about 7-8 ran past it, stopped, and peered at the badge on the back before turning round to ask his dad:
"What's one of those, Dad?"
"That's a Saab. They don't make cars any more."
And as a passer by who'd stopped in Sainsbury's to get some shopping, nothing to do with the scene... A little bit of me hurt to listen to that sentence.
Over 300k miles in 3 of ‘em. All super comfy, cars to own and love. Very sad.
I moved ‘up the road’....5 years & 75k miles into an XC60 which I also love, but I had expected to be in a Saab.....
Whatever happened to the Saab electric they were touting?!
blearyeyedboy said:
I felt compelled to add a post-script.
I saw a tired looking 9-3 in an underground car park today. A young boy agreed about 7-8 ran past it, stopped, and peered at the badge on the back before turning round to ask his dad:
"What's one of those, Dad?"
"That's a Saab. They don't make cars any more."
And as a passer by who'd stopped in Sainsbury's to get some shopping, nothing to do with the scene... A little bit of me hurt to listen to that sentence.
Hopefully that lad went home and looked up Saab on the web!I saw a tired looking 9-3 in an underground car park today. A young boy agreed about 7-8 ran past it, stopped, and peered at the badge on the back before turning round to ask his dad:
"What's one of those, Dad?"
"That's a Saab. They don't make cars any more."
And as a passer by who'd stopped in Sainsbury's to get some shopping, nothing to do with the scene... A little bit of me hurt to listen to that sentence.
I really think there's no manufacturer with a model history that's more than the sum of its parts than Saab. If you think it basically went:-
- Post-war model which ran until 1980 with the same basic design
- Late sixties model which ran until the early nineties with an elongated snout
- Mid-eighties model which ran until the late nineties with the same basic design
Plus all the GM-derived stuff that came afterwards.
But they just had that *something* that made them that bit different to the competition and which makes them such cracking used buys nowadays.
Even the late ones diluted with as much septic piss as GM could get into the pot still had something about them. The many I see still in service look fit and well, with none of the curling rubber seals and sagging trim of many decade old cars. Interiors don't seem very cosmetically robust on the later ones though.
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