RE: The Saab Saga: It's over

[craigcerberus]

SAAB's were crap anyway. Good riddance to bad rubbish I say

[A Scotsman]

Sad but inevitable. Have to say though that I support GM's stance on transferring technology to the Chinese and I hope this is an attitude which more companies begin adopting.

[chunkymonkey71]

craigcerberus said:

SAAB's were crap anyway. Good riddance to bad rubbish I say

[craigcerberus]

chunkymonkey71 said:

[richard300]

cptsideways said:

RIP Saab - A brand that leaves me with memories of many happy days motoring

My list of previous Saabs from my younger days

99 GLS in Brown!
99 Turbo Hatchback in Black
99 Turbo Saloon in Black
900 GLS
90 GLS
900i Tjugofem (best car I ever owned did 260k in it!!)
900 T16 S
900 T16 S
9000 2.3T
9000 2.3T

An appropriate period picture don't you think! At the bottom of Wrynose pass IIRC

Edited by cptsideways on Monday 19th December 12:25

If totaled all the miles in all the cars i have owned i wouldnt have covered 260.000 miles. You must have spent a lot of time driving in that car!

[richard300]

craigcerberus said:

Were your other 9 posts as insightful as your 10th and 11th ones?

[ellisd82]

Sad news...

[BT52]

richard300 said:

Were your other 9 posts as insightful as your 10th and 11th ones?

To be fair, it's hard to be more accurate.

[Carnnoisseur]

Unfortunately, this was inevitable. Saab's demise has been consistent for the last few months. Personally, it is not a brand that have I have ever shown interest in, but I do feel for the employees (especially timing wise)..

[StoatInACoat]

Went past this one Saturday lunchtime and it has been completely stripped and all the cars gone from outside - just an office chair and a table left in an otherwise empty showroom.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=highway+london+saa...

[craigcerberus]

The truth hurts I'm afriad my pedigree-chum

richard300 said:

Were your other 9 posts as insightful as your 10th and 11th ones?

[craigcerberus]

BT52 said:

To be fair, it's hard to be more accurate.

Some people just can't swallow the bitter pill that is the truth

[drophead]

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=saab+ecclesall+roa...

This is now just full of Vauxhall metal now. They finally replaced the last SAAB (a black 2.8t convertible) with a Corsa VXR the other week

Edited by drophead on Monday 19th December 13:45

[PascalBuyens]

There is a new 9-5 here at the parking lot at this customer, which, bad brand or not, always seems to attract my attention.

Didn't think they'd become an exclusive car to be honest...

[Richard A]

Yes, it's all a bit rich, given the amount of messing around and time wasting that GM caused Vauxhall and Opel recently - I'd really hoped that they were going to break away from the great dumber downer.

[forzaminardi]

I'd venture to suggest that GM's excuse - protection of technology and intellectual property - is pretty thin as surely all anyone would need to do to pinch said technology and intellectual property is buy another GM product and reverse-engineer it. More likely is that they just didn't want anyone to succeed where they have failed - especially in the Chinese market itself.

[forzaminardi]

drophead said:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=saab+ecclesall+roa...

This is now just full of Vauxhall metal now. They finally replaced the last SAAB (a black 2.8t convertible) with a Corsa VXR the other week

Edited by drophead on Monday 19th December 13:45

Fit blonde in that shot, well spotted sir.

[Pistachio]

[Kazlet]

Its not surprising their cars never moved out of the sixties.

[Pistachio]

Kazlet said:

Its not surprising their cars never moved out of the sixties.

The latest ones were much better the 9-5 and 9-4X