Saab Sales Snippets
Good news abounds!!
Yes, there are even some good Saab sales stories out there.
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One market where Saab sales have been defying the global trend is the Russian market.
During September 2008, there were 133 Saabs sold in Russia, which is 125% up on the same month last year, when only 59 were sold.
Year to date, they’ve sold 1,014 Saabs there, which is 84% higher than the 551 sold to September 2007.
It’s a relief to have some pleasant Saab sales news from somewhere. Thanks Alexey!
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There’s no Saab sales singled out in the press release, but GM’s Latin America, Africa and Middle East section (known as GM LAAM) have just recorded a record third quarter of sales. In fact, they’ve had 20 consecutive quarters of growth now, which is a good thing I guess.
And as an aside, I think it’s amusing that they’ve called it GM LAAM instead of the more complete and accurate GM LAAME
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Saab in the UK are having an employee pricing sale. You get the employee pricing discount, as well as a bonus offer of either 0% financing (someone forgot to tell them about the credit crunch), a finance deposit allowance or a trade in allowance.
The employee pricing discount on a 9-3 Vector TTiD sedan is £2,753.00, which brings the price down to £23,117.00
All the details are at Saab GB’s Home of Saab Offers.
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Potential Saab owners in South Korea are getting in on the act as well. I can’t get all the details as it’s a subcription article at Just Auto. The blurb reads as follows:
GM Korea has announced that it will be offering to pay customers’ acquisition taxes, as well as throw in free navigation systems and special discounts for selected Cadillac and Saab models until the end of the month.
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And Aussie Saab owners can still benefit from a special extra Saab loyalty bonus if they trade up to a new Saab.
The bonus is so secret that they’re not advertising, preferring to contact those they perceive as potential buyers by phone. I haven’t even been able to convince one of my contacts to divulge the amounts on offer, such is the secrecy.
So if you’re here in Oz and you have a Saab to trade up, ring your dealer and ask for the super-duper special loyalty bonus.
Then email me and tell me how much it is 
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Its cool to see that car sales in Russia is going up:)
Not entirely sales related, but according to Sweeedish AMS there is a chance that future European models, including the 9-5, can be developed by US engineers. http://www.automotorsport.se/news/15882/saab-9-5-kan-utvecklas-i-usa/
How about that, people? 9-5 in true US style…
The loyalty bonus that’s going on here in Aussie at the moment is awesome!!!
If you have a SAAB that is less than 5 years old, you can trade it in on a new vehicle and get a huge 25% off the purchase price.
I wasn’t really interested in upgrading to a new SAAB but at discounts like this, how can I refuse?
Funny how SAAB is not advertising this promotion.
How good is that!
Hey Sam, less than 7 years old. 25% of the new car price (ex on-roads) will be added to the trade-in value of your existing car. Turbo X excluded (for purchase, not trade-in : ) ) Can be done multiple times ie. have two cars to trade, can get the deal on two new cars.
You also get a special card that is missing the member ID that is supposed to be printed on it. This number is to be used to log into a special private site. Once you find the number elsewhere and enter the site it tells you nothing more than the brochure does but invites you to do the turbo gene test.
Clearly Saab’s best prospective customers are it’s existing customers and they are all sitting on their hands…… til now. Saab has to do something as they are sitting on probably another 30-40 sales this month I would guess.
Doesn’t help when Saab starts the Turbofest and groups of dealers then have their own sales fest that doesn’t tie in with the Saab promotion. They should be synergising not fragmenting the marketing. Usual hopeless communications.