Comments on: March 2006 – One heck of a month

By: vector220

vector220 — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 01:48:32 +0000

Car sales in Sweden up 6, 8% compared to mars last year. Up 2.9% year to date.
The detailed stats will be releases in….1 hour…But J.Å.J told us last week that Saab had increased there market share

By: TuuSaR

TuuSaR — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 01:03:50 +0000

In Sweden there’s one of worlds biggest airbag factories. It would be weird not to use their bags and import stuff from the USA.

“Delphi has a Swedish division”

But they aint striking.

By: Swade

Swade — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 21:46:48 +0000

I’m pretty sure GM will be preparing for a Delphi strike. The gap between the UAW and Delphi on wages is pretty big, and the UAW will be seeing this is as a test case for GM itself, because whatever concessions Delphi gets on wages and conditions, you can bet the others will be queueing up as well.

I will be big.

By: eggsngrits

eggsngrits — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:07:23 +0000

Wow. I hadn’t put things into this perspective — it is a banner month.

The UAW is going to have to relent if GM and Ford are to survive. And, believe me, the UAW hates that Saab sales are up. They hate it because Saab is proving that cars built in foreign plants with little union control over content or culture will sell successfully. In the past, they’ve been abloe to ignore successes at Toyota, Honda, et al as unfairly subsidized by the Japanese system. This time around, the only one of GM’s own that’s not under their control is making positive headway. That’s embarrassing to UAW, let me tell you.

TuuSar, I don’t know where your ‘wild guess’ came from, but it’s incorrect. Delphi at least makes radios, touch-screen control centers, and airbags for all Saab models. And some Saabs have controllers and instruments manufactured by Delphi as well. In fact, Delphi has a Swedish division that makes some of the same components for Volvo, too.

By: vector220

vector220 — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:12:04 +0000

The only sales figures I have seen is the one http://www.n24.se reported after an interview with Saab CEO J.Å.J.
He told that in Sweden Saab did 60-70% better than last mars…
And 16000 unit was sold world wide…It has to be a good month for Saab.

By: TuuSaR

TuuSaR — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 08:16:17 +0000

I would throw wild guess that 9-5 uses very little Delphi parts and 9-3 none.

And Saab can stock more parts or order from elsewhere.
Also aint it totally clear at this point that there will be Delphi strike causing GM also to start real battle with unions.

So everybody knows the scenario, time to prepare 1 – 8 weeks, depending on how fast will judge give verdict.

By: ctm

ctm — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 02:14:49 +0000

And now we just wait for the sales figures for March. No sign of them in Sweden yet… Maybe have to wait until after the weekend…

By: mikef

mikef — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 21:33:06 +0000

Anyone know the U. S. parts content (if any) in Saab 9-3′s and 9-5′s? This may be critical in the not too distant future.

The radio/sound system in the 9-5, as well as the AC system come to mind.