A legendary car brand that unfortunately no longer exists

It's been almost 10 years since the gates closed forever at Saab. The brand is missed. The regrets about their disappearance are international. It stretches from North America to Russia, where there is amazing agreement when it comes to naming the culprit. GM, who else, put Saab in the coffin. Welcome to the weekly press review.

The real reasons why Saab no longer exists

Hotcars seems to have discovered Saab for itself. Over the past few months, people have written about the cult brand again and again, and the one that is currently busy Editors with the question of why Saab no longer exists. The answer seems simple. Because the Swedes were stubborn and always cooked their own dish based on GM guidelines. Of course, also because they developed their own navigation systems for some money, but the bill was at GM's expense.

In short, it can be said that it was the cultural peculiarities. GM never understood Saab, the Swedes ignored what the Americans wanted. For Saab, the focus was on the safety of the vehicles, for Detroit on profit. How else could you have come up with ideas like the Saab 9-2x and 9-7x?

Soaring bird. Facts about Saab.

There are a lot of Saab fans in Russia. Who unfortunately can no longer read the blog, or only to a limited extent. The Russians with an affinity for Saab are allowed to send their thanks to the Kremlin. Abundant attacks and many spammers have made the firewall in the direction of Russia tight. At some point the games will be enough.

Auto.ru looked at little-known facts about Saab. The Articles is freely readable, the Google translator brings a reasonable result. The editing begins with the early days of the brand and the amazing roots. It is very true that Saab only ever earned the money in armaments and continues to do so to this day.

Smaller anecdotes from the history of the brand make the material worth reading. They agree with Hotcars on who ruined Saab. GM is the evil villain who turned a proud premium brand into a sick man. Last but not least, they wanted to prevent supposedly valuable knowledge from falling into the hands of the Chinese. Detroit and prevented a sale to China. This closed the coffin lid for good.

139 unique Saab.

In Sweden, too, the Saab issue is slowly boiling up again. One can assume that it will be sizzling hot at the end of the year. Dagens Industri pays tribute to the Saab Museum and its 139 exhibits and commemorates the rescue by the municipal sponsors and the Wallenberg family.

The Post is not freely accessible, but its content is the museum as the linchpin of the Saab scene and the keeper of the unique Saab history.