Saab will be unveiling its latest concept car, 9-X Air BioHybird, at the Paris Motorshow next month. The 9-X Air concept provides a glimpse of what a future convertible from Saab would like like. The small, 1.4-litre Saab BioPower engine running on E85 fuel would power the concept car and deliver 200 horse power with zero to 100km/h in 8.1 seconds. It is puzzling to get this exotic concept cars from Saab but have never seeing them make to production. Check out the introductory video and more details after the jump.
Saab's latest creation, the 9-5, which first rolled off the production line in June this year. It is the first Saab to be launched under Spyker ownership, although it was developed under GM's ownership
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A Portland Saab dealership is leading a campaign to save the Saab brand of cars. Ryan Emge the owner of the Maine dealership, got other devotees of the cult car to converge upon General Motors and urge the auto giant to sell the Swedish brand it bought two decades ago, rather than closing it down. Emge says more than 50 Saab fans showed up at GM headquarters, some with their beloved cars. "We've had people drive from all over the country today, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, as far southeast as Virginia, Maryland, even Massachusetts on Cape Cod," he says.
The gathering got the attention of GM executives, who went down to meet with Emge and the other SAAB enthusiasts. "There's a lot of SAAB enthusiasts here at GM, and we're very heartened by their enthusiasm for SAAB," says Tom Wilkinson, a spokesman for GM. "And we all have our fingers crossed and hope that some sort of a deal can be put together to find a new buyer for SAAB." But Wilkinson says that just because GM is entertaining offers from several companies doesn't mean there will be a sale. "It needs to be someone that would have a reasonable success -- of being successful with SAAB. It really wouldn't do anybody any good to have SAAB go to a new buyer and then have the company fail shortly thereafter. It would leave consumers with no warranty coverage, it would leave dealers with orphan vehicles to sell." Wilkinson says the new buyer will have to overcome years of flagging sales for the cult car. The prospect of Saab has been particularly best in the Northeast, where the brand had its strongest sales. Many blame GM, saying the automaker did not properly market the cars.
The gathering got the attention of GM executives, who went down to meet with Emge and the other SAAB enthusiasts. "There's a lot of SAAB enthusiasts here at GM, and we're very heartened by their enthusiasm for SAAB," says Tom Wilkinson, a spokesman for GM. "And we all have our fingers crossed and hope that some sort of a deal can be put together to find a new buyer for SAAB." But Wilkinson says that just because GM is entertaining offers from several companies doesn't mean there will be a sale. "It needs to be someone that would have a reasonable success -- of being successful with SAAB. It really wouldn't do anybody any good to have SAAB go to a new buyer and then have the company fail shortly thereafter. It would leave consumers with no warranty coverage, it would leave dealers with orphan vehicles to sell." Wilkinson says the new buyer will have to overcome years of flagging sales for the cult car. The prospect of Saab has been particularly best in the Northeast, where the brand had its strongest sales. Many blame GM, saying the automaker did not properly market the cars.
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General Motors now plans to close its SAAB Car division as attempts to sell off the Swedish brand failed. This will be the latest in the multiple hard place issues facing the ailing Giant US automaker. Its last-minute negotiations to sell Saab to a Dutch supercar maker, Spyker Cars, fell apart because of due diligence issues that could not be resolved.
Those talks followed the collapse of a deal to sell Saab to another maker of high-performance cars, Sweden-based Koenigsegg. "We regret that we were not able to complete this transaction," said Nick Reilly, president of GM Europe. "We will work closely with the Saab organization to wind down the business in an orderly and responsible manner." GM has had a stake in SAAB since 1990 and later in 2000 it fully owned the Swedish car company. Although the government of Sweden has offered to make loan guarantees to a potential Saab buyer, it has refused to bail out the brand directly. Saab has 3,400 employees worldwide and 1,100 dealers.
Those talks followed the collapse of a deal to sell Saab to another maker of high-performance cars, Sweden-based Koenigsegg. "We regret that we were not able to complete this transaction," said Nick Reilly, president of GM Europe. "We will work closely with the Saab organization to wind down the business in an orderly and responsible manner." GM has had a stake in SAAB since 1990 and later in 2000 it fully owned the Swedish car company. Although the government of Sweden has offered to make loan guarantees to a potential Saab buyer, it has refused to bail out the brand directly. Saab has 3,400 employees worldwide and 1,100 dealers.
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