SAAB making cars again.

OK, not big news. But for fans of the Swedish car maker (Chinese owned now) it's better than a kick in the nuts.

http://www.saabcars.com/en/news/268C2619757EA2E9

Here's hoping for good things.

Wait waat?

so who's going? JG? Tim? Per can still get a press pass out of GRM, can't he? He was the big Swede geek of the bunch wasn't he?

This guy is on the team, his name is stig!

Stig Runesson, manager of Manufacturing & Facilities

damn.. now I don't own any orphan cars anymore. (Fiat and Saab)

I saw a couple of Fiats that were never sold here in Mexico so they were still sold in North America at least.

If this Saab is still the old GM chassis stuff that is boring. If they want to use an ancient chassis they should build the 9-2x again, lol.

I wonder what they are going to do now all the dealerships are gone.

Cool

They will be sold in flat packs in the back of Ikea between the Floogenhases and the Kranenroks

Ug. I was so happy not having anymore saabs.

Knurled wrote: Wait waat?

I see waat you did there!

I read about that a month or so age. Hopefully it workd this time.

They rolled two cars off the line about two months ago. No idea what they are planing for this run as far as numbers go.

Wally, love the Ikea idea. Sold in a flat pack, of course.

Jeff wrote: They rolled two cars off the line about two months ago. No idea what they are planing for this run as far as numbers go. Wally, love the Ikea idea. Sold in a flat pack, of course.

Hopefully that would also mean that they are moving away from the GM era tendency of using every possible odd sized metric fastener.

They need to jump on the retro trend and do an updated version of the 900. They need a shape that is distinctly SAAB.

Or an updated 96, Fiat 500 competitor.

HappyAndy wrote: Hopefully that would also mean that they are moving away from the GM era tendency of using every possible odd sized metric fastener.

That's because their cars are/were a mishmash of SAE metric and DIN metric and probably JIS metric as well, depending on who supplied what. Volvos are the same way. You get to use ALL of your metric tools on a Swedish car.

In reply to Knurled: 99s/c900s are not that way at all. 9000s only have a few odd fasteners. 9-3/9-5 OTOH, have me using wrenches that I never knew I needed.

EvanB wrote: Or an updated 96, Fiat 500 competitor.

this..

If we're wishing, a 99 turbo would be awesome.