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Old Dec 18, 2009 | 07:19 PM
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"Swedish carmaker Saab is to be shut down by General Motors after the collapse of a last-ditch attempt to sell it to Dutch sports car manufacturer Spyker.

GM announced today that with "regret" it was starting an orderly wind-down of 62-year-old Saab's operations. The marque, which grew out of an aircraft manufacturer shortly after the war, employs 3,400 people in Sweden and sold 93,000 cars in 2008, but has struggled to turn a profit."
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Old Dec 18, 2009 | 08:26 PM
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Is it me or is this starting to look like GM is trying to monopolize a little bit? Thats the fourth company gone now?
Old Dec 18, 2009 | 09:02 PM
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maybe saabs weren't ugly enough to sell. they went too mainstream.
Old Dec 18, 2009 | 09:08 PM
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GM stuck their nose in too many other mfgs. and because of GM's extreme fuckups, all these other companies are being flushed. Way to go GM!

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Old Dec 18, 2009 | 09:11 PM
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I saw this coming from a long way away... Kinda sad actually.
Old Dec 18, 2009 | 09:22 PM
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Oh well, GM has very little to offer. I'd rock the **** out of a G8 or a CTS-V. Every other company they gobbled up will probably be getting the boot in the future.
Old Dec 18, 2009 | 09:41 PM
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Saab was doing fine until GM started in with them. Shame.
Old Dec 18, 2009 | 09:59 PM
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All these companies were producing some good **** too. I think so.
Old Dec 18, 2009 | 11:04 PM
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Originally Posted by kotomile
Saab was doing fine until GM started in with them. Shame.
I don't know if I would say fine. You don't see a lot of any year model Saab on the road these days. Hippie car. Though I did kind of dig the last model 93. Of course also the Draken.
Old Dec 18, 2009 | 11:58 PM
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Old Dec 19, 2009 | 12:00 AM
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I absolutely love saabs. When I get out of college I am buying an oldskool 900 turbo. I think it's a shame that they will be gone and out of business but, thats life and it sucks.



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Old Dec 19, 2009 | 12:03 AM
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850 T5, S60R, V70R, 242 > all saab

you know why the call it "saab" right?

it's what you do a week after purchase
Old Dec 19, 2009 | 12:10 AM
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Originally Posted by NA6C-Guy
I don't know if I would say fine. You don't see a lot of any year model Saab on the road these days. Hippie car. Though I did kind of dig the last model 93. Of course also the Draken.
Right, but at least they were still treading water.
Old Dec 19, 2009 | 12:12 AM
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Treading water franticly wearing 10lb ankle weights, but yeah, they were somehow keeping their heads above the water. But I don't disagree that GM is messing **** up.
Old Dec 19, 2009 | 12:27 AM
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Saab shoulda never got in with GM. Personally I think Saab's are ugly and 2 weeks ago I pulled a Saab tranny from a 900 turbo. WHAT A BITCH THAT WAS. Never saw a car with the flywheel and clutch in the front. Made it real easy to take apart, NOT.
My friend has a Saab 93, like a 2006? It has some sort of power programmer and I'll tell you this...IT RIPS **** UP, but I still hate it. It has the "I feel fast cause I have the torque of a 15 second Mustang 5.slow". It fits the category of a SRT-4...turbo car, front wheel drive with 4 doors. Therefore, bury it in the scrap pile, cause it's not my bag, baby.
Old Dec 19, 2009 | 12:37 AM
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At least Saab lives on in aerospace and Scania.




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