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Trollhattan Stirs! Saab Lives To See Another Week
A happening at the Saab factory…
- Did GM’s CEO shuffle help buy time for Saab?
- Saab sales frozen with lack of confidence
- SaabsUnited proves to be best source for the blow by blow
By Gunnar Heinrich | IMG via SaabsUnited.com
SAAB still lives!
Bless their Svenska souls, it seems like GM’s become too distracted with the immediate departure of former CEO Fritz Henderson and his reportedly outspoken daughter (if true, good on her for defending dad) to drop the axe on Saab.
Considering how the General so cavalierly doused that phoenix which was Pontiac last year, it may surprise you that with the collapse of the Koenigsegg deal, Saab’s lived to see another week.
But make no mistake, tidings are still grim.
Sales have drawn down to drip-drops from last year’s trickle. Monthly sales figures in markets like Canada and Germany are down to low double digit accounting errors. It’s a fearsome freeze in confidence that Saab’s facing.
Lucky for Saab, it has a plucky and loyal community of faithful Saabists led by the ever firey Steven Wade.
Mr. Wade is SaabsUnited‘s flame spouting griffin; a blogger who has in the past been coddled by GM largesse (in one instance, GM flew Mr. Wade from Tasmania to Detroit a couple to cover the Detroit Auto Show) only to be exiled when he continued to hold the Detroit giant to account.
Throughout this tumultous period for Saab, Mr. Wade or “Swade” as he’s known has provided a thorough, daily account of every little event – right down to writing a small post about some appreciative Saab staff handing a grimacing smiling CEO Jan Ake Jonsson a bouquet of roses in a show of support as he headed off to lobby the suits in Motown.
In such a dark hour, the Saab community (of which yours counts himself a member) can count Mr. Wade as a boon to a busted car maker.
