Saab News

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 up to debt ...    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

You always remember your first. For the all-new Range Rover Evoque that first came at the hands of Motor Trend and the annual award that comes along with it. The all-new Range Rover Evoque was presented with Motor Trend's 2012 Sport/Utility Vehicle of the Year award after a field of ...    Read more

We're simple folks here at Automotive.com. Our jobs consist of covering the news and writing vehicle reviews where we provide important information like seat comfort, fitting groceries next to the baby stroller in the Mini Cooper's trunk, or why someone broke a heel while rearranging the Honda Odyssey's seats. Then along ...    Read more

In best example of Asian fusion since PF Chang’s, Geely Automobile has denied a rumor that it was looking to purchase Saab, because it already has its hands full with another Swedish automaker: Volvo. According to a Swedish newspaper, Geely’s parent company Zhejiang Geely Holding Group is interested in Saab, “in ...    Read more

Maine became, this week, the first state east of the Mississippi River with a stretch of highway allowing a 75-mph speed limit. There are lots of trees—and little else—on the straight, 110-mile stretch of Interstate 95 in the state's far, northeast corner. For years, many residents didn't even bother driving the ...    Read more

The Saab story continues, this time with a new chapter in its quest for money: in this latest game of Swedish musical chairs, Saab’s parent company Swedish Automobile is selling boutique supercar manufacturer Spyker to pay its debts. Spyker will be sold to a private equity firm called North Street Capital, ...    Read more

On this day in history, Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin passed away. Bohlin, who died in 2002, was the man behind the modern three-point safety belt. But he got the idea from working at Saab, designing ejector seats for its military airplanes. Saab is a company in need of an escape—from its ...    Read more

In a follow-up to Saab’s financial troubles, a Swedish court in Vanersborg has denied the company the benefit of bankruptcy protection. Poor Saab now has something to sob about. The court called into question Saab’s pending deals with Chinese automakers Pang Da and Zhejiang Youngman, which still haven’t been approved ...    Read more

In the end, it was only a matter of time. Saab, delaying the inevitable since they were spun off from GM in 2010, has filed for "voluntary reorganization," seeking to secure short-term funding and protect themselves from creditors. It's up to the Swedish courts to decide whether Saab gets the chance ...    Read more

If you can’t hear it, there’s an angry snarl and a bunch of incomprehensible German swearing coming from BMW’s U.S. headquarters in South Carolina. It’s not that the BMW group, which also owns Mini, didn’t sell a bunch of cars; it did. It’s just that 23,924 vehicles sold in the ...    Read more

The next Saab 9-3 is scheduled for a 2013 makeover, and if the Swedish manufacturer can get its production line rolling, it may also ditch the 9-3 nameplate in favor of a name that harks back to the brand's earlier years. "There's a chance we might move away from that," said ...    Read more

Lost in all the headlines about Saab's current misfortunes is the fact that the company actually has an interesting history beyond who owned it at any given time. Many people forget that Saab initially began as an aircraft maker, and its fighter jets are a mainstay in the Swedish air ...    Read more

Due to the on-again, off-again battle with parts suppliers, Saab announced this week that production of its automotive line will not restart on August 9, as we reported several weeks ago. The Swedish automaker remains in discussion with its parts suppliers while working to obtain additional funding to begin ...    Read more

Saab has been in a state of turmoil lately, but this may all end soon. Today, Saab announced that production could restart as early as August 9. The Swedish brand has been out of production multiple times due to financial issues with suppliers who have been unwilling to cut Saab ...    Read more

It’s okay to stare—we can’t take our eyes off the new Saab 9-4X either. The eye-catching fuselage-inspired exterior is stunning in white with contrasting privacy glass and blacked-out mirrors, pillars, and undertrim. We love the understated but familiar chrome trim that adorns the nostril-flared, front fascia, and the body-molded twin ...    Read more

The 2011 Saab 9-4X midsize crossover has been named a Top Safety Pick by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The 9-4X was given “Good” ratings, the highest possible, in front, side, rollover, and rear-impact evaluations. To earn Top Safety Pick status, cars must also have electronic stability control, a standard ...    Read more