Griffin Up! Saabists Rally For Their Marque

By Gunnar Heinrich

POSTED on SaabsUnited, there’s this jpeg which digitally displays a War-era British propaganda poster. Beneath the silhouette of the crown reads the succinct message:

Keep Calm And Carry On.

In case you haven’t noticed, what followed the multudinous epitaphs for the Swedish marque since GM announced closure last November was not a funeral but the sputterings of a car manufacturer that refused to die.

Saabists are having their Churchillian hour.

Like blitzed WWII Londoners staring the spectre of death bravely in the face, all the Saab party faithful can do is their symbolic part in making sure that the sun rises another day over an active Saab factory in Trollhattan, Sweden.

Anything at this point could tip the balance between Saab being snapped up for a heady $400-$500 million by some newly liquid buyer to Saab being shuttered along with GM’s other defunct divisions.

Pontiac, Saturn, Oldsmobile…

So that means public rallies to show support for Saab!

On Sunday, January 17th, rallies will be held around the world in demonstration of support from the Saab community for the embattled car maker.

In the US, there will be a rally in Brookline, Massachusetts at the Larz Anderson Museum from 10AM-5PM. The Facebook event page can be found here.

Event details for rallies in Norway, Denmark, Russia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Australia, and China can be found here.

Surprised there’s not a Motown rally…yet.

The automotive world’s a better, more dynamic place with Saab selling cars in it. Let’s hope, fervently, that this 60 year old marque will not slip from us, lest our passions yield to the coming homogenization of all cars.

Griffin up!