Comments on: Tuesday Snippets http://www.trollhattansaab.net/archives/2008/11/tuesday-snippets-22.html Saab 9-1, 9-3, 9-4x, 9-5, 9-7x News Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:34:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Markac http://www.trollhattansaab.net/archives/2008/11/tuesday-snippets-22.html#comment-56391 Markac Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:53:57 +0000 http://www.trollhattansaab.net/?p=10222#comment-56391 Snotfjold: Opel could retain part ownership of Saab and remain the major OEM supplier of platforms etc. Someone more interested could run Saab and spearhead them into the future. That could work out rather well. Snotfjold: Opel could retain part ownership of Saab and remain the major OEM supplier of platforms etc. Someone more interested could run Saab and spearhead them into the future. That could work out rather well.

]]> By: Snotfjold http://www.trollhattansaab.net/archives/2008/11/tuesday-snippets-22.html#comment-56390 Snotfjold Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:38:16 +0000 http://www.trollhattansaab.net/?p=10222#comment-56390 It would be interesting to see what the consequences would be if each national government started helping their ailing car manufacturers. Would Saab and Volvo become nationalized and Swedish, would opel be split up into several independant companies? GM Europe is a Swiss entity, perhaps the Swiss buy the whole lot off from GM, I doubt it. It seems to me that a concerted effort is needed but perhaps not in terms of direct help to individual companies. The Eu has with new legislation made it more and more difficult over the years for car makers to actually make money. It is time they give some of that back and at the same time increase incentives or reduces taxes on cars to drive up demand. GM in North America is suffering from utter incompetence, lack of vision and a very large baggage of decades of bad decisions and what they need is a team going in making big and necessary cuts at all levels. The risk for Saab at this stage is that if Opel and Saab would be separated, Opel may not want to keep Saab around anyway. Then all we can hope for is a quick sell of the brand and Swedish assets to a company that catually want to do something with it, for instance make money AND good cars. It would be interesting to see what the consequences would be if each national government started helping their ailing car manufacturers. Would Saab and Volvo become nationalized and Swedish, would opel be split up into several independant companies? GM Europe is a Swiss entity, perhaps the Swiss buy the whole lot off from GM, I doubt it.

It seems to me that a concerted effort is needed but perhaps not in terms of direct help to individual companies. The Eu has with new legislation made it more and more difficult over the years for car makers to actually make money. It is time they give some of that back and at the same time increase incentives or reduces taxes on cars to drive up demand.

GM in North America is suffering from utter incompetence, lack of vision and a very large baggage of decades of bad decisions and what they need is a team going in making big and necessary cuts at all levels.

The risk for Saab at this stage is that if Opel and Saab would be separated, Opel may not want to keep Saab around anyway. Then all we can hope for is a quick sell of the brand and Swedish assets to a company that catually want to do something with it, for instance make money AND good cars.

]]> By: elsch http://www.trollhattansaab.net/archives/2008/11/tuesday-snippets-22.html#comment-56389 elsch Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:08:39 +0000 http://www.trollhattansaab.net/?p=10222#comment-56389 "... don't necessarily help Saab,... " - When I came home yesterday evening, there was something on the onboard news screen of the subway: Sweden's minister of finance considers governmental help for both Volvo and Saab. He said this at a presenation of a economic forecast, which was presented in Stockholm yesterday. Although, he mentionend no details. So maybe it's not the German government (why should it?) that helps Saab through the crisis, but the Swedish. Here's the link to the German article: http://www.focus.de/politik/schlagzeilen?day=20081117&did=949733&gn=0 “… don’t necessarily help Saab,… ” – When I came home yesterday evening, there was something on the onboard news screen of the subway: Sweden’s minister of finance considers governmental help for both Volvo and Saab. He said this at a presenation of a economic forecast, which was presented in Stockholm yesterday. Although, he mentionend no details.
So maybe it’s not the German government (why should it?) that helps Saab through the crisis, but the Swedish.

Here’s the link to the German article: http://www.focus.de/politik/schlagzeilen?day=20081117&did=949733&gn=0

]]> By: Markac http://www.trollhattansaab.net/archives/2008/11/tuesday-snippets-22.html#comment-56366 Markac Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:41:36 +0000 http://www.trollhattansaab.net/?p=10222#comment-56366 Obviously Lawrence Automotive did not get the contract for the new 9-5 or perhaps the delay on the new model is more than it can cover? It seems that Opel is pretty optimistic it can survive the worst that could happen to GM North America. I hope that Saab as part of GM Europe is in a similar position. Obviously Lawrence Automotive did not get the contract for the new 9-5 or perhaps the delay on the new model is more than it can cover?
It seems that Opel is pretty optimistic it can survive the worst that could happen to GM North America. I hope that Saab as part of GM Europe is in a similar position.

]]> By: Swade http://www.trollhattansaab.net/archives/2008/11/tuesday-snippets-22.html#comment-56363 Swade Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:30:03 +0000 http://www.trollhattansaab.net/?p=10222#comment-56363 It looks like Saab Germany have adopted the Global website's template, too. Looks great. It looks like Saab Germany have adopted the Global website’s template, too. Looks great.

]]> By: Eduard(Edusaab) http://www.trollhattansaab.net/archives/2008/11/tuesday-snippets-22.html#comment-56362 Eduard(Edusaab) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:14:27 +0000 http://www.trollhattansaab.net/?p=10222#comment-56362 About Lawrence Automotive, cheking its website it seems they do interior trims for the BLS, and I suppose for the 9-3ss. About the 9-5 griffin, I found the catalog in Saab.com Germany website for download. http://www.saab.de/de/de/start#/buy-own/services/broschure-anfordern/ regards About Lawrence Automotive, cheking its website it seems they do interior trims for the BLS, and I suppose for the 9-3ss.

About the 9-5 griffin, I found the catalog in Saab.com Germany website for download.

http://www.saab.de/de/de/start#/buy-own/services/broschure-anfordern/

regards

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