Looks bad for Saab

[Dave W]

Koenigsegg backs out of Saab deal

Worst car I ever owned was my 74 Saab 99. Still I hate to see the brand go by the wayside, and that looks like a real possibility.

[Pilgrim]

Saab is a worthy brand - this is not good news.  I was hoping they'd make it!

[Freuds_Cat]

SAAB voted worst car sold in Australia 4 years straight in the late 80's by the pre-eminent consumer magazine Choice. I had a mate who owned one. He said it was very comfortable but underpowered and very unreliable. Generalconsensus here is that they are a bad choice of car for a country with our heat.

[uwe]

I'll miss the "black panel" function!

[Barklessdog]

Back in the 80's they were the choice of Yuppies in the city, along side BMW's. They lost that whole "young professional" crowd along the way.

[Highlander]

Does GM own the aviation division...? can't see the Swedish Govt letting that go down... (no pun)

[Dave W]

No, Saab Automobile has been completely separate from Saab AB for years.

[Barklessdog]

Love the  Viggens & Drakens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqiDEcfSnXs&feature=fvw

[Pilgrim]

I liked the Viggen auto that came out a few years ago - great shade of blue, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saab-9-3-coupe-viggen.jpg

[Dave W]

The latest: Spyker To Buy Saab?

Seems like an unlikely match, even moreso than Koenigsegg.

[Psycho Bass Guy]

Love the  Viggens & Drakens

You really need to check out the Griffen:




BTW, if you like the Draken, check out Firebirds from a few years back. It's a silly Nicolas Cage/Sean Young "war" movie that was a bad attempted promo for the AH-64 Apache to do for it what Top Gun did for the much (unfairly I might add) maligned F-14 Tomcat. The good parts are that the "bad" guys fly Drakens and Tommy Lee Jones gets to spend a whole movie being an ironically good actor in a crappy movie.

[Aussie Mark]

I could never work out why Saabs have that extra mud flap on each side halfway between the front and rear wheels.

[eb2]

Saab and Saturn.  I guess it was time.  I don't think I will miss either as much as Pontiac and Oldsmobubbles.

[Pilgrim]

Saab and Saturn.  I guess it was time.  I don't think I will miss either as much as Pontiac and Oldsmobubbles.

Amen.  To me, Saturns became the VW Microbus of the 90's - they always drove slowly so I automatically passed them.  The drivers just didn't care about getting down the road.

[gweimer]

I will miss Saturn.  I've had 4 of them now.  My Vue is pretty peppy for a six-cylinder automatic.  It's been one of the best cars I've ever had.  And I've been through about 50 in my life so far.