A NEW INVESTOR FOR SAAB?

O come on!

Say it!!! Say it!!!!

Koe-nig-segg. It's easy if you try......

:-)

Go Swift! Go Safe! Go K-Saab!

Go Sweden Go!

I have always liked Saab cars. I almost bought one a couple of years ago. Unfortunately their cars are sold in North America through GM's Saturn dealerships. I was very put off by their poor facility and unprofessional sales and services, and I ended up buying something else. It is exciting to see Koenigsegg becoming the new owner of the Saab brand. I expect to see some very exciting vehicles bearing the Saab badge in the future. I only hope they will become available in North America.

Ashes to Jets...Saab to Fly again.... Go SAAB Go!!!!

Since 1988 I have owned three Saab vehicles -- ALL excellent cars.
Saab Of Charleston ( SC ), a Hendrick Dealership, recently abandoned their CUSTOMERS & exited the business -- leaving local Saab owners to fend for themselves. Not only was that an unethical and dishonorable thing to do, it was a very poor business decision -- since virtually ALL local Saab owners will pass along that information to Friends & Family, and probably anyone who will listen for two minutes, even complete strangers -- rest assured, I WILL !
I WILL make every effort to AVOID a Henderick Dealership ( regardless of "the make" of the car ) in the future and I will assure that anyone who will listen WILL learn of my opinion of Hendrick Dealerships and the OBVIOUS lack of Value they place on their FORMER CUSTOMERS.
HTW, Mt. Pleasant, SC

I want my tombstone to read " She loved her family, her friends, and the Saab automobile."

I hope this means I will have a 2010 SAAB 9-5 in my garage this fall to replace my "end-of-lease" 2007 SAAB 9-5!
Let me be among the first to congratulate SAAB's team and Koenigsegg.
Tom
Sacramento, California USA

Go Saab, GO!!!!

I really hope Saab will get back on it´s feet & bring us exciting cars in the years to come ,)

Maybe they only want the factory to build NLV Solar AG.
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Long since we're awaitng. If only it doesn't fail at finish...

I really hope this works out for Saab and that they will be able to make REAL Saabs again. I will be first in line to buy one. Good luck.

Hi,

I have a 2002 Saab 9-5 which has caused me lots of trouble - oil leaks and having to replace many electrical components - latest being the fuel pump assembly. I know it is a bit early but will SAAB only be a European brand or will it be coming back to North America. I still like my car but would a new SAAB be getting better parts than what Opel provides.

Thanks,

Don

As a Saab dealership employee, I am wildly enthusiastic about the prospect of Koenigsegg and their associated investors taking a share in Saab's future. The sooner you let the world know what is happening in this regard, the sooner we can get on with the business of selling and servicing one of the world's great cars - SAAB!!!

SAAB is the best car i have ever driver, the latest 95 is my 4th SAAB, come on guys go for it and get it done

I keep the fingers crossed... Saab, that's what I wanna drive... undersatement and individualism, performance power and safety, luxury and a fair price.... I really hope that Saab will survive! For me and for my brand new 9-3 Aero Hirsch Performance!

Long live SAAB! When can we expect to see a rebirth of the Classic 900?

Go SAAB ! Go K-SAAB ! I love Saab from the first 900 I bought to the 9-3 aero '05 I own ! Love from France !

Please let it be Koenigsegg. Let it breath life into this beautiful company again. I love Saab.

I hope the new structure will result in a new 9-X Air in my driveway.

Good move. I have owned 13 Saabs since 1980 I love my 2003 9-5 sportwagon Areo. I hope this partnership will finally move Saab to 21st century. Hint hint Electric performance SAAB. Like Tesla. Congratulation.

Good Luck Koenigsegg from Australia.

Being a Saab family since the 1960's owning a Saab 96. It will be great to see the company being bought back by a Swedish company.

When Saab was bought by GM the family moved to Peugeot. GM didn't have the right touch for designing Saabs in our opinion. Can't wait to see what will come in the future.

I have everytime hope for Saab. And now i will see. Happy birthday for a new future. We hope for a long live without GM. In the last month, we see (on this page) more from SAAB, as in the last years. Saab will build verry good cars... without cheap GM parts.

All the best für SAAB a lot of Krafft!!!!

I had a three SAAB, 9-3 viggen, 9-5 linear, 9-5 aero and now have SAAB Turbo X. All is great car. . I always envy the performance of KC. Great for SAAB. GO SAAB!!!

It is my second SAAB. Now I have a 93TTid.
With my first, 200.000kms without problem.
I hope more with my TTid !
A new invertor,what a good news for SAAB.
Really a hope a new futur whitout GM .....

I have been a Saab owner since 1988. This means half of my life! Starting with a 2nd hand 1980 900GL 3 door and now owning a 2000 9-3S and a brand new 2009 9-3 Sport Combi. Totally I have owned 7 Saabs.
I'm truely happy to experience the news - was in fact a bit worried, but now the light at the end of the tunnel seems visible.
I hope that Saab will return to innovation and a "form-fit" design language that characterised the old "true Saabs" so that a Saab is not only a car, but a very special car, that smells right, sounds rigt and feels right.
I hope that Saab will be more offensive in style. More offensive in marketing, so that people are not in doubt thar Saab was the pioneer.
Example: the name 9-3 "1,8t" is defensive in the way that Audi several years before introduced this 1,8t name and it seems that Saab simply couldnt find a name of its own.....

I hope:
- Saabs will not be too expensive in the future.
- Saabs will be "Nordic cars"
- We will see more "green cars" from saab
- We will see a smaller car from Saab
- Saabs again will have huge luggage compartments
- The designers and engineers who in the 60ties and 70ties designet, developed and improved the classic 99/900 get a medal of honour for being extreemly innovative and vissionary.

Good Luck to Saab

CNN

Hopefully this will cure the dreaded SAAB (GM) bugaboo - horrible depreciation (or was it originall overpriced). That said, my beloved purchased used CPO 2001 Viggen coupe is the only SAAB that can rightly clain to be born from jets. Now I am truely spoiled by fierce acceleration with 32MPG on the highway and a hatch with massive storage. :) Time to make fun cars again!!!

Love my '08 SAAB 9-3. 2.0L turbo and 6-speed. SAAB's engineering talent contributed much to General Motors and appears there still may be some type of ongoing relationship with Government Motors in the near term. Hopefully, this will allow SAAB to continue to sell products in North America. It will be exciting to see SAAB automobiles evolve with fresh ideas and input from Koenigsegg. SAAB's greatest challenge will be to get beyond being a niche brand in North America and an aggressive marketing campaign will be needed to do so. At this juncture, survival is probably their most immediate goal. I believe that without the constraints of corporate politics SAAB is going to become a new world class marque far beyond anyone's expectations. Market share may not be an immediate goal but, demand for their products will increase as they develop automobiles by thinking outside of the box. I wish them well and look forward buying a new generation SAAB.

With 24 years of SAAB ownership experience behind me, perhaps the future of SAAB is to make the safest, best performing, alternative fuel cars in the world...that is one of the many things that GM failed to do with a potential gold mine of a product if it just had had the insight to do the right thing...but alas like everything else GM, it was confused and misguided...how about now!!!???

It'll be interesting to see how Koenigsegg views the Aero X...look at their automobile portfolio and you can see that an Aero X is quite do-able for a niche manufacturer. Naturally, that's not where the money is long term but....it does raise some interesting possibilities for production. I just hope Saab doesn't become so 'high-end" that we can no longer afford them. GM did discount heavily so deals were plentiful. Time will tell.

isnt that the all new 9-5 you can see in the background?

Yeah! A new partnership for Saab with a SWEDISH company - Koenigsegg!! I love my 9.3 and have been waiting for a return to a true Saab automobile without the lesser quality GM parts/influence.
Congratulations and best wishes on this business venture. Long live Saab!

Lauren

I have a SAAB 9-3 Aero TTiD estate and it is without doubt one of the best car's I have ever had. I feel that any break from the GM brand will be a good thing as GM has reduced the engineering quality of the brand.
I hope that the future is bright for SAAB and they get back to doing what they do best.