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| Saab reaches the end of the road Thanks in no small part to GM, both for tainting the brand with its shoddy Detroit ways and now for refusing to grant licensing to potential competition, Saab is likely no more.
The NY Times has an interesting retrospective on the brand:
»wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12···aplenty/ |
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| GM is afraid of licensing the Chinese with it's technology. That's a joke, the Chinese will reverse engineer it and build it anyway. |
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| The only reason you can get a decent car from the Big Three (2.5?) now is because of foreign competition.
More short-sighted, protectionist stupidity and more evidence why GM should not have been shored up with tax money. |
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matt5
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Lagrangeville, NY | reply to No_Strings
Eh saab was crap anyway, unless it was GM who put the key hole under the brake leaver, that you had to move up to get the key in. |
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| No, that was one of Saab's endearing features long before GM took over. |
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
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Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to No_Strings
to be fair I never saw many Saabs around even before GM took over.
Saab was a terrible business decision to have ever been bought in the first place.
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Saab Sonett III | 
1973 advertisement |
Saabs were built pretty well back then. My father was a big guy, and he would demonstrate to customers that he could sit on top of the side window frame with the door open, and not damage the car.
They also had a heater that could defrost the Arctic. |
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 SteimesI make internetsPremium
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kudos:1 | 0 - 60 in just 11.5! Wowza |
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FWD sports car? Who are they Honda? There's a reason why sports cars are RWD. |
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JBear
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canada | reply to Steimes
said by Steimes:0 - 60 in just 11.5! Wowza
That's not bad for a 1970's European car with a 1.7L engine. |
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| said by JBear:said by Steimes:0 - 60 in just 11.5! Wowza
That's not bad for a 1970's European car with a 1.7L engine. Even one saying it is a sport's car?
I'm not being a jerk, I really do not know.
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JBear
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canada | reply to No_Strings
Sportscar isn't reliant on horsepower or engine size, though being a Rear Wheel Drive helps. The Mazda Miata with it's whole 1.6L engine when it came out is touted as one the best sportscars ever. |
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
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Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to No_Strings
I have a feeling if GM didnt borg Saab all those years ago that Saab would have been dead already. That said it was a terrible decision for GM which already had sagging brands when they took over Saab which added to their collection another sagging brand with less market than Olds had.
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| said by Kearnstd:I have a feeling if GM didnt borg Saab all those years ago that Saab would have been dead already.
I think you're absolutely right. |
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