Comments on: Saab sale talk is “purely speculative”

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:44:45 +0000

The question is whether the sale would generate cash.
In the case of Opel, it would but yes I think it would gut the company.
In the case of Saab, it probably wouldn’t generate any cash, so not worth doing.
Unless, Saab is a net drain on cash, and therefore a sale could make sense to slow the bleeding.

By: Arild

Arild — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:34:29 +0000

Saab depend on Opel to build cars, but does Opel depend on GM? Just how much of the parts come from GM factories outside Europe? Is Opel so integrated into GM’s global operations that a sale would be impossible? I’m not so sure…

By: van god los

van god los — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:08:59 +0000

I also think that they won’t sell saab. There is simply nobody to sell it to.

I’m just afraid that they will simply stop investing in saab and let saab starve to death.

By: Markac

Markac — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:42:00 +0000

Keep it (Saab) they can, but enough with the strangulation and suffocation. As they say, “use it or lose it”. Nineteen years is too long for GM to twiddle it’s proverbial thumbs and think how it might use use Saab. The only thing GM seems to use Saab for, is to poach it’s innovations and use them on much lesser cars.

I think if GM Europe’s range was predominant in the US there would be far less problems. Perhaps GM North America should be more integrated into GM Europe rather than the other way around?