Saab has gone bankrupt??? End of trollhatten

JOCCO · Dec 20, 2011

Read an artical tonight that saab is all done and bankrupt. End or an era for trollhatten. Kind of sad as i was an old saab fan. Really wood like to have a 60's to 80's modle.

Dell (WA) · Dec 20, 2011

what! you didn't want their 3-cyl 2-stroker??? putzie-putt-putt

RayP(MI) · Dec 20, 2011

Always thought their cars were a bit strange, but sorry to see "em go. Scary part is that their tooling and technology may go to China.

Dean · Dec 20, 2011

I well remember pouring 2 stroke oil into the fuel tank before filling it up when I worked at a full service service station in the late 60s - early 70s.

Dean

JOCCO · Dec 20, 2011

Remember studebaker, packard, hudson and a few others?? Don't want to blame GM, for the past 20 years they were a Zombie.

MarkB_MI · Dec 20, 2011

Yes it is sad. I visited Trollhatten a few times, and the Swedes are by far the nicest people anywhere in the world.

Dave in GA · Dec 20, 2011

Don't worry. external_link will bail them out too.

CenTex Farmall · Dec 20, 2011

Flew their planes; Saab 340's. Very handy little plane to fly. Tough too. It was good in icing. Air conditioning on it was no match for Texas heat though.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 21, 2011

So you have been everywhere???? wish I had that travel opportunity.

MarkB_MI · Dec 21, 2011

No, Bendee, I confess I've never been to Oz and a few hundred other countries. But of the places I have been to (and I've traveled quite a bit), nobody tops the Swedes in "niceness".

doubleN · Dec 21, 2011

Bingo!!!

greygoat · Dec 21, 2011

Didn't they make a fighter jet? Did any Airforce
besides their own have any? Who will get that
technology? Or, did only the auto
part go bankrupt?

Lamar Fudd · Dec 21, 2011

I had a '67 that had the oil injection system. Refill it every 1000 miles with i THINK it was 3 quarts of Saab Hi-M Oil. I remember cause I still have an unopened gallon can of it. First car I ever had that would get 30 MPG at 75 MPH. Traded it for a Mustang with a v-8, just before the oil embargo of opec.

LJD · Dec 21, 2011

I'm no Saab fan - but it's not wonder they've gone belly-up after GM got done with them. GM owned Saab until a year ago. After GM sold the company, and it went up for sale again - GM blocked the transfer of patents and licenses that ruined the deal.

Dodgeit · Dec 21, 2011

(quoted from post at 08:08:02 12/21/11) Didn't they make a fighter jet? Did any Airforce
besides their own have any? Who will get that
technology? Or, did only the auto
part go bankrupt?

The automoble part is seperate.
There fighter planes are world class, and are in use in Sweden, Hungary and soon to be Switzerland.

http://www.saabgroup.com/en/Air/Gripen-Fighter-System/?id=3&epslanguage=en

MarkB_MI · Dec 21, 2011

Saab the car company and Saab the aircraft company parted ways many years ago.

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