Saab News

As we keep digging up the corpse of Saab and beating it back down in its afterlife, at least we now know that it will go a little more peacefully into the night. A U.S. judge just threw out the lawsuit the Swedish automaker's parent company filed against former parent ...    Read more

If you were at the top of the executive food chain back when the now-defunct Saab was still making vehicles, then your week didn't get off on the right foot. Former Saab CEO Jan-Aake Jonsson, Chief Financial Officer Karl-Gustav Lindstroem, and former general counsel Kristina Geers were all arrested in ...    Read more

'Twas a sad day in 2011 when the trolls of Trollhatten, Sweden, closed their doors and stopped making Saabs. Can you imagine if Santa's elves were told to pack it in? They'd have a riot, eat venison for dinner, and Christmas wouldn't be the same. It's that same sort of feeling many a ...    Read more

While there were a few unveils this week--the most notable being the new Bentley Continental Flying Spur--we don't typically cover cars costing $200,000 or more. So you're stuck with your regularly scheduled Week in Review. That said, it was still a great week of news, albeit one not wrapped in ...    Read more

Oh, what could have been.... Designed by Jason Castriota in 2011, SaabsUnited unveiled images of the 9-3 Phoenix this week. These photos have not surfaced until February of this year, and are now being released out of respect for Castriota. The 9-3 Phoenix was designed to with the intent of being ...    Read more

If you're one of the New England college professors who purchased a Saab and are a little miffed that the brand went belly-up just as you put down your hard-earned dollars, both the defunct Swedish automaker and General Motors have quite the holiday news for you: GM will be honoring ...    Read more

Just a few days after Ford agreed to a four-year contract with the Canadian Auto Workers, General Motors agreed to the same terms with the union late last night. GM's four-year deal calls for the creation or maintaining of 1,750 jobs and an investment of $675 million for ...    Read more

Even though he was CEO of General Motors for a grand total of 10 months and has repeatedly self-proclaimed not to be a "car guy," Edward Whitacre Jr. still believes that the government should sell its shares in General Motors off quickly. This isn't the first time Whitacre has called ...    Read more

Talk about kicking someone when they’re down. BMW is bringing Saab Automobile Parts AB, the parts branch of the now-bankrupt automaker with the same name, to court for receiving parts and other engine components and not paying the $3.2 million bill. The original agreement was signed back in September of ...    Read more

More than 350,000 people should be getting letters in the mail sometime soon warning of imminent malfunctions, fires, or other impending automotive doom raining down upon them if they don't act soon. Three automakers—"Old" GM, BMW, and Suzuki—just issued recalls for various issues. As always, here's a rundown of what ...    Read more

"Swag," from annoying Internet memes to being dropped every 12 seconds by rappers whose lungs might implode into a fine powdery dust if they don't, is an entirely overplayed concept. But when an underdog carmaker—one favored by said rappers, incidentally—sues the world's largest carmaker over the supposed death of its progeny, ...    Read more

The sad, Saab, story continues to cause a trickle down one's cheek as the Swedish brand refuses to die, news-wise, like now gone Isuzu, Hummer, Pontiac, and Saturn. The latest gasp for breath? Ally Financial, which was Saab's lender before the automaker's bankruptcy late last year, has been fighting in ...    Read more

There's a funny thing that happens when a car's odometer ticks past its six-figure "planned obsolescence" marker—it rolls over and resets itself. There's literally nowhere else to turn. It goes back to zero, brand new again, as if it was a phoenix reborn from the ashes. What's a million miles, or ...    Read more

Step right up, potential Saab suitors, for your chance to win some hoary old GM Europe platforms, legions of unbalanced, rabid fans, and the legacy of decades of mismanagement and squandered opportunities! Who will win the fair maiden Saab's hand in this week's episode of Mystery Date? No matter how small ...    Read more

Like a sparkly vampire or an 80s TV show, the mummified corpse of Saab continues to agitate upon our collective conscious. In this episode of Saab's Greek tragedy, a Swedish consortium that develops electric cars is interested in scooping the remaining chunks of meat off ...    Read more

Depending on your viewpoint of Saab, this is either the most heartwarming thing you'll read all day, or as sad and pitiable as a disabled puppy struggling to walk. We won't pass judgement. But perhaps in the best example of community fundraising since the Amish started charging for their barn ...    Read more

There's an old TV commercial, circa 2006 or so, where cheery suburbanite Stanley Johnson proclaims to be living the good life—he's got a great family, a four-bedroom house, a new car and a country-club membership, before proudly affirming, "I'm in debt up to my eyeballs!" Saab is ...    Read more

As luck may have it, even beleaguered brands make gems every once in a while. But as good as a car or truck may be, luck doesn't always favor those whose saving grace comes at the last minute. There's very little in the car market that we outright hate, but a little schadenfreude ...    Read more

Website CarInsurance.com mulled many a $15,000 car (or less, supposedly), attempting to come up with the perfect list of 20 cars to buy teens. It waded through cars that were considered pretty darn reliable, ranked as Top Safety Picks by the Insurance Institute of  Highway Safety, and cost the least ...    Read more

In 2010, the remains of the entity once known as Saab managed to hack out 147 examples of the Saab 9-4X crossover before giving up the ghost for good, guaranteeing that the number of owners of the handsome crossover would fill a Southwest flight with more empty seats than, say, ...    Read more

With all the recent economic forecasts and jobs reports, you'd think it was doom and gloom out there, (and it may be), but you'll only get a half-hearted nod of sympathy from our German friends. These are good times in the auto industry, one that's recovering ahead of the general ...    Read more

Now that the entire company’s been pawned off like so many storage units on a Discovery Channel show, Saab’s entire 100+ car collection in its home base of Trollhättan is up for grabs to the greedy, unwashed masses. And for a company that’s seems like it has been building the ...    Read more

In 2011, Automotive.com’s staff size increased 600 percent. We started our own revitalization, staking out where we were and where we are yet to go. To close out the year, we put together our picks for the high and low points that made up the automotive year that was 2011. From ...    Read more

Today, Swedish automaker Saab finally called it quits after a months-long struggle to stay solvent and—more importantly—stay relevant. With former parent company General Motors unwilling to part with licenses to its intellectual property to the Chinese firms that promised to inject cash into the ailing brand, it was only be ...    Read more

Being completely honest, for the past three months we’ve been sitting on an obituary we wrote up for Saab. It’s a brand that the enthusiast in us loves, but the practical side of us realized the Swedish automaker was breathing its last. It hasn't done well in the past several ...    Read more