oohhh WHATT? Sweet!!!

Being purchased by Koenigsegg will be fantastic for the brand, its loyal customers/fans, and for the country! I fear with any national brand when they are purchased by companies that may lose focus of the history behind it.

Oh, and it’ll make for some pretty interesting performance Saabs!

It could be a marriage in heaven – or just a dream that ends in tears. I’ll go with Fiat as a good partner.

Sounds great. And their styles match. Koengisaab.

This is good. It means the brand will be kept alive, in the US too, which I like to see. Their horrible resale value makes them an awesome used car purchase.

Hopefully we will be seeing nicer Saabs as a result of this. GM watered down the brand and dumbed down the products – Saab pretty much lost everything that made their cars unique.

Jake, used cars on the market are for 2 primary reasons: got off lease and expensive to maintain. Since very few of Saabs were leased in the first place, they may not be a bargain as a secondhand car after all.

I APPROVE

It’s gonna be awhile, S2L2SC, for anything not developed by GM to show up at a Saab showroom. Two models are coming out in the next year, the 9-4X and new 9-5, and both based on GM platforms. The new owner would be nuts to stop these cars from being a part of Saab since they have huge develpement costs already in them, as they are so close to production.

@Borat –

I see pretty many of them around the midwest where I work off lease. You get a 4-year warranty to boot, 3 years of covered oil changes, so as long as you keep it under a certain amount of time, 2 years on a 2 year old car, you can get alot of use out of it. I saw a ‘07 Aero 9-3 fully loaded with only 18xxx miles for around $17,000 by my house, I call that a pretty good deal.

Seems kind of odd that Koenigsegg would make a play for Saab. Is this strictly a financial investment? Is there any real world tech. from Saab that would beneift Koenigsegg or vice versa?

As far as I see it Saab’s are loved by many but with their never-changing interior design and lack of competitive horsepower ratings they are often overlooked. Koenigesegg cars have completely unique designs inside and out and they are packed full of horsepower. Put these 2 together and you now have 2 winning brands =)

Very interesting twist of fate. Very cool.

@ JakeK66 – I am thinking more in terms of long term model development. It would be nice to see them bring back some of the quirky things that made Saab unique.

This is great news for SAAB fans! Koenigsegg can return SAAB to it’s glory days of performance.

Jake, I just don’t see large quantities of Saabs any longer. And those that I see are driven by much weirder and upcale folks that made Saab iconic. I could wrong, but for some reason they don’t sell and 4 door sedan does not help (or fuglly wagon with a slush box and Opel sourced V6).

Carbon fiber, 1000 hp, and price freeze for every Saab, is win win

keep it Swedish, keep it looking good and keep it running for a long time and not owned by government motors. (GM)

could go good.

@jake, isn’t the 9-3 aero just a Impreza WRX with different bumpers? My question is, how does that “deal” compare with an Impreza WRX with 18k miles…

orangecones- thats what the 9-2x was, (read my screenname), but it was killed off when GM got rid of its share of Subaru a while ago.

Sounds like a good deal for saab, gm certainly stripped that brand for all it was worth. I doubt they will stick around in the US very long though. Every saab today is a gm car.

Clearly, we all want to see this happen. Being bought by Koenigsegg will instantly undo two decades of GM ownedness (and all the unpleasantness associated with that).

saabaru – do you know if the platform used on the newer saabs are ones from GM europe’s platforms, or a GM Daewoo platform?