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If you’re in Europe and you’re looking for a cheap Viggen, or 9-5, or some other nice Saab, now might be the time to head to Sweden.
Dippen sent this report in, translated from Swedish Public Radio:
The quality of Swedish cars, combined with a weaker swedish krona (SKR) has made the market for used cars in sweden atractive for europeans. Instead of European cars being sold to Sweden , second hand cars from sweden are now being sold in the European market.
The financial crisis has reversed the order in the case of used cars. Once Sweden has been a country that imports of cheap used cars, But now we sell our cars abroad to low prices.
Significantly more used cars where exported than the year before. More than 26,000 compared with just under 20,000 cars in 2007, According to statistics from Motormännens Riksförbund (Swedish Association for car owners).
Any excuse to go to Sweden’s a good excuse if you ask me 
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Speaking of people buying cars…..
This is fairly significant in terms of the growth of a car company that was really on the ropes around 15 years ago.
The Audi A4 range outsold the BMW 3-series last year – in Germany. Audi also grew here in Australia by 30% in 2008, which is remarkable when you consider the type of year it was.
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Alfa Romeo’s range-topping 8C Competizione supercar has proven itself loyal to the brand’s reliability tradition by being recalled in the US for faulty ball joints.
Doesn’t matter. Click the image and look at it. The floor could fall out and you’d never even notice.
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Finally, from Flickr.
Saab on the wall.
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12 responses so far ↓
1 ctm // Jan 26, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Ah, Competizione… Bella figura…
2 van god los // Jan 26, 2009 at 10:57 pm
alfa 8c competizione : “pure automotive porn”
3 Robin M // Jan 26, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Is there any Swedish car sales web sites we can log into?
4 ctm // Jan 26, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Specific sites for vehicles:
http://www.bytbil.com/bilar/begagnade
http://www.bilweb.se/
This place has everything. I guess this string will get you “cars” from all over Sweden:
http://www.blocket.se/li?ca=11_s&th=1&q=&cg=1020&w=3&ps=&pe=&rs=&re=&ms=&me=&gb=&fu=
5 Ken H // Jan 26, 2009 at 11:07 pm
http://www.blocket.se is a trading website, but not purely for cars. Pick a region, choose cars (Bilar) as subject/kategori and choose “Hela Sverige” in region. Type in search terms like “Viggen” or “Turbo X”.
6 Razvan // Jan 27, 2009 at 12:51 am
and how many SEK makes an euro?
7 Dippen // Jan 27, 2009 at 1:36 am
Razvan: 26 jan 1 Euro = 10.5 SEK
8 Razvan // Jan 27, 2009 at 1:55 am
thanks. So it’s easy to transform from SEK to euro, just cut the last 0 of the price.
But I did not found the number of kilometers of the cars.
Anyway, it was just a curiosity search. I’m from Romania and from many reasons for me it is still easier from Germany. Found only one Viggen in mobile.de, and yes, seamed pricier then the ones from Sweden.
And because of Saab tuners, I can upgrade my well preserved 9-3 LPT instead of selling and buying a powerfull one
9 JB // Jan 27, 2009 at 2:26 am
Many cars in sweden have the distance of driving in mil instead of kilometers if you are looking in to Blocket. 1 mil = 10 kilometers.
10 Kroum // Jan 27, 2009 at 2:59 am
I have to second Van God Los on that, the Competizione is pure lust.
11 zippy // Jan 27, 2009 at 7:32 am
I gotta ‘third’ what Van God Los said about that Alfa. That is one sexy car!
12 Karen // Jan 28, 2009 at 2:41 am
The independence of the Swedish Krona from the Euro zone may well be Sweden’s best asset to survive this global economic downturn. There are already a lot of stresses inside the Euro community and hard to know if Germany and France can carry the weaker Euro zone members.
Well, better to fight ‘currency exchange rate wars’ than ‘guns and missile wars’.