Tom`s rearview mirror. The opinion of the Saab bloggers on current topics. Not only, but also, around Saab.
Times are getting more exciting! This time in a positive sense, because the Swedish business thriller about Saab could develop into a Scandinavian-Asian success story. Could he really? We illuminate the facts and think about what...
Read moreIt's been exactly 2 years! The sun set out on its daily path, with obvious difficulty. Because the approaching winter could already be felt, and so on this Sunday morning it was still quite low...
Read moreDivorce is difficult business. Responsibilities have to be redefined, life in a patchwork family poses new challenges for everyone involved. After the divorce of Saab Automobile AB and Saab Automobile Parts AB we had…
Read moreSaab Parts AB changes its name to Orio AB. You may or may not think the choice of name was successful. More important are the facts, which concern us all. And the questions raised by the name change….
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I had a nightmare. I dreamed of NEVS starting production in Trollhättan during the IAA. The time when the entire automotive cosmos in the Main metropolis increased. I spoke to my wife about it...
Read moreA few days ago it was time. It's been a year since NEVS got the keys to the Saab factory in Stallbacka, and the move to a new era was finally completed. The enthusiasm about it was within my limits. Another candidate had been my secret favorite. After a year of NEVS and Saab 2.0, it's time for a quick flashback.
Read moreThe driveway to the main gate was re-tarred, and some of the green spaces were redesigned. Anyone who knows the Saab factory from the past will see the changes in Trollhättan at first glance. In recent years has been...
Read moreThe automotive world is looking forward to Sweden. Not to Trollhättan to Saab, but to Gothenburg to the other Swedish brand. Since the takeover by Chinese investors, Volvo has been in the spotlight, because what happens there could also be a template for other companies. A study by the Norddeutsche Landesbank sees at least one other carmaker in Chinese hands by the end of 2015.
Read moreThe Saab auction in Sweden ended on Wednesday. There was already great interest in the run-up to the event, and even on the day of the auction, emails with questions were still arriving. I answered very few of them. Because it was mostly the "usual suspects" who have been on the hunt for bargains for more than a year. Who do not want to understand, even after a long phone call, that no dealer will give a 3-year guarantee for a Saab model year that will never be produced. Or who simply don't want to see the risk of buying a model like the Saab 9-4x that has never been launched in Europe. No, this is a blog. No Saab help desk.
Read moreWhat made the Geneva Motor Show so interesting for us? Then there's the matter of electric cars. A market segment that Saab 2.0 wants to occupy in spring 2014. And there's the exciting story of what comes out of it...
Read moreCrises and breaks are opportunities at the same time. You just have to spot them in time. Applied to Saab, it is the chance to start again, free from old burdens and obligations. Backed by a history and an origin that – if used correctly – could become an overboost.
Saab is from Sweden. A nation that is considered peaceful and tolerant. The transfigured is through the literature and through films of our youth
Read moreLife is colorful and full of surprises. Especially if you are a fan of the small Swedish brand Saab. With Saab you go through ups and downs, you suffer with the brand and still love it...
Read moreThis week, the surprising news of the planned construction of a new Saab plant in Qingdao, Shandong, China, went through the Saab world. After waiting many months, good and concrete news finally came. Saab owners...
Read more"The situation in Sweden is bleak, in Europe it is only worse in Greece than in Sweden," wrote Sweden's leading business newspaper, Dagens Industri, a few days ago. Is it the long, cold…
Read moreThey are the last of their kind. In Sweden 68 partially non-certifiable Saabs are for sale. It is the last act of a drama that is now being performed. For Saab collectors and friends of the cult brand an opportunity that will never be there again.
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