Good morning. Did I miss something??

Hehe...

Good morning sunshine! Can't wait to hear the REAL scoop, oh great one! ;-)

Mooornig !!!

Yes you missed something ;)

Nope, Go back to bed.

I guess you haven't really missed anything you didn't really know (or suspected).

Now, tell us what the e-mails from Drup Strupe contains!

Hope you had a good night sleep, I guess it will be a busy day for you... ;-)

Why not just adjust Your way of living to Central European Time.
You do not overwhelmingly happy on the picture about the hopefull good news.
We in Sweden are going to bed now so You will have to teke the nightshift.
Surprise us tomorrow morning with some definate news!

hehe,lovely wake up picture:D

yeap now it is time for us GMT+1-ers to go to bed:)

G'day mate! So far, Bloomberg and NYT have totally misunderstood the news. Check your site visits from NYC and Detroit to see how many "journalists" are playing catch-up.

Ok, in all fairness to Bloomberg (cable), in the first special report about ninety minutes ago moderator thought it was REALLY cool, but their auto expert in Detroit seems to have been drinking so much GM Kool-Aid that he could not see why this was so cool.

That pic is fantastic. Someone should give the "Obama" effect to that pic and make a poster of it if you ask me.

Good morning and good night, now its your turn to get to work. Looking forward to waking up and check the news..

Morni`n.
My heart just slowed down enough to finally make me consider hitting the sack.
Get a big shovel (?) and start digging Swade!
Tremendous work you are doing by the way. I truly hope that Saab sends you a big wooden box sized about 2 x 5 x 1,5 meters containging something heavy when things have setteled down a bit. I bet you have sold more Saabs than the best Saab salesman on the best Saab dealer by running this site.

This amazing news if it goes ahead, although it means I'll be 100 before I can afford a new saab.

(Just as well I'm picking this baby up on saturday http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C95530/)

I like going to sleep knowing that on a tiny (?) island deep down under a superman works his butt off for us Saabistas and maintains the good and real newsflow for us all. (at least that's my observation of the current state of Swade, just bed-timing I guess.

Wow, what a qualifying at Le Mans! 1 minute to go.

so far not making BBC World News in U.S.

ok, i needed to re-subscribe.

Here's ya go!!

http://obamiconme.pastemagazine.com/entries/images/a7/60/1232341/original_image.png?1244757615

Yep, us Aussies get to sort through the analysis while you bunch don't sleep anyway due to excitement, confusion and doubt.

Go back to sleep mate - you look like you could use a few z's. :)

NYT's Carter Dougherty reported this about 100 minutes ago:

“We are still working on the deal,” the person said, requesting anonymity because the agreement was incomplete. “It is not the done deal that some people in Sweden seem to think it is.”

ok, my subscription to this thread is still not coming through!

Love the posting, LOL!

I have a better idea for Swade. Move him to Trollhattan and make him Saab's Director of Communications with a company 2010 9-5 Aero.

imagine a K-segg/Saab Aero-X prototype running at Lemans!

It is 00:28 in Europe.
The news on spiegel-online says Koenigsegg buys SAAB.

.. just in case anyone is awake...
Check the link:
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,630022,00.html

Yes, letter of intent probably says nothing. Because GM/Saab almost certainly requested it from all candidates in the final round for the case they should be allowed to buy Saab.

Ronan, that looks like a lovely example, best of luck with it - I had been looking at that one as I have acquired the 'bug' to buy a classic aero!

Enjoy!

Financial Times just clarified some points about fifteen minutes ago. copied from FT.com:

"...GM is to announce it is in exclusive sales talks with the company, a person close to the talks said on Thursday. The deal is due to close by early this summer. ...Koenigsegg “has the best overall offer”, the person with knowledge of the deal said, but further details of its bid were not immediately available. The privately owned company, based Ängelholm, north of Malmo, sold just 18 cars last year, and is said to be interested in applying its knowledge of high-end niche sports cars to a higher-volume carmaker.

GM is putting more money into the deal than any buyer, a second person familiar with the sale told the Financial Times earlier this week, pledging $500m of assets and cash for the new company.

...

GM Europe and Koenigsegg could not be immediately reached for comment on Thursday evening. Saab’s cars have some ardent fans in the US, Sweden and elsewhere [TASMANIA????], but the brand was widely seen as a neglected stepchild under GM’s 19-year stewardship.

The Detroit carmaker’s most recent “Born from Jets” ad campaign playing up Saab’s heritage as an aircraft maker failed to ignite sales which peaked at 133,000 in 2006 and totalled just 98,000 last year. GM has failed to turn a profit at Saab since buying a stake in it in 1990. ..."

FT adds that Ford wants one to two billion for Volvo..

thanks JK for the English translation from Der Spiegel.

So Koenigsegg was able to outwrestle both billion-backed Renco and Merbanco and offer "the best overall offer" - fails to clarify best for whom, though. Best for Saab, best for GM or best for the "sailors of the sinking ship", as the Swedish government afforded itself to put it.

Btw. I doubt Ford can get anywhere near $2b. for Volvo, they're in big trouble there.

@ me (with your permission, of course?)

Go, Swade!!!

Possibly the post of the year - after the one by your sister Swade. That photo is indeed priceless.

Very exciting news but I'm not convinced yet. Lets see the details as theyre confirmed.

Now that's just scary!

love that picture, great shot.

Even the very local news sum it up as above. Read more on http://money.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=824712.

I love Richo's smart arsed comments that appear here every once in a while. Bet you wish someone cared enough about BMW to offer a BMW equivalent to Saabs United? Even though you have 'moved to the dark side' it just goes to show that you get never quite get the whole Saab-thing out of your system.

Hahahahaha. Lol. Love the picture :)

Coffee anyone?

I don't know which Grizzly I like better... LOL!!!!

Hello Swade,

Been a fan of your site for years. I as well as my wife have been driving Saabs for a couple of years untill last year when my 9-5 Vector Combi had 185.000kms in 3 years and started to have smaller electrical problems I switched to the ugly beast named X5 since the children wanted 7 seats. Next car however will probably be a Saab again. My wife still enjoys her 9-3SE sport convertible (a Viggenlooking end of the series)
I would like to comment on your looks with a little movie that is a big hit in Belgium at the moment :
BTW koffiekoeken are danish pastries and badjas is bathrobe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVnlVLwknj4
Keep on spreading the Saab-enthousiasm.

Thank you,

Barent