Saab enthusiasts will converge near General Motors' Renaissance Center headquarters in Detroit on Tuesday to urge GM to save Saab by selling the company intact -- presumably to Spyker. Spyker CEO Victor Muller has said that January 7 is the deadline to work out a purchase deal.
The diehards plan to meet at the Ren Center food court for lunch at noon and then congregate in a public lot at the corner of Atwater and St. Antoine at 1 p.m. on Jan. 5. Consider that an open invitation if you're in Detroit and upset over the drawn-out death of the troubled Swedish automaker.
rsholland says:
07:47 AM, 01/ 4/10
I would love to see Saab continue, but I just don't see it happening. Hope I'm wrong...
firstclass says:
10:21 AM, 01/ 4/10
It didn’t work for all the people that offered to buy the EV-1’s back from GM. Pressure from Saab owners won’t work…I doubt it will even make the local news in Detroit. Perhaps if pig tailed exchange students throw Swedish meatballs. Hail Mary’s have failed but at this point with GM beging production of both the 9-3 and 9-5 I’d Say Saab has come back from extinction.
zoomzoomn says:
02:23 PM, 01/ 5/10
Yawn.
rsholland says:
07:04 AM, 01/ 6/10
According to AutoBlog, roughly 30 Saabs showed up and perhaps 50 demonstrators. That's hardly going to impress the powers-that-be at GM.
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/01/05/saab-owners-gather-in-wintery-detroit-urge-gm-to-sell-brand/