by TimR
May 20, 2011 in Uncategorized
FD.NL (original article here) reports: BEIJING (Dow Jones) – The Chinese government development and reform commission has banned local car manufacturers to compete for the brand and technology in Spyker (SPYKR.AE) daughter Saab Automobile in the Chinese market, reports The Economic Observer, Friday based on an anonymous source. Read the rest of this entry →
by TimR
May 20, 2011 in Uncategorized
Dagens Industri (original article here) Saab Automobile has grown tired of the waiting for the EIB to approve Vladimir Antonov and are now trying to sell the factory buildings to other investors.
Thursday the real-estate agent DTZ came for a visit to the Trollhättan factory and was shown around by production-manager Gunnar Brunius.
Victor Muller and Saab are reaching out everywhere to get more money for Saab and hiring DTZ to find another owner is one possibility according to a source at Saab who told DI.
The idea is to use the securities of 280 million SEK that the swedish government has provided in order to sell the real-estate and then rent it back
During the last four weeks the EIB has stalled their approval of Vladimir Antonov as shareholder in Saab which is why Saab is now forced to switch track, hoping that the deal could be easier to perform with another owner.
by TimR
May 20, 2011 in Uncategorized
According to the union Metall’s chairman Håkan Skött, negotiations are now in place with Saab for shortening the summer vacation this year. Before the workforce can leave on their summer holidays 7500 cars on top of the cars ordered by Pang Da and the 5000 already on order, needs to be built. Before the production came to a halt, Saab built 220 cars per day and if the same production rate is able to be kept Saab will fall short 1000 cars when the workforce are supposed to start their vacations.
Thanx to Thomas for the information!
by Red J
May 20, 2011 in Saabology
Without further comment
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It would be a significant understatement to say that the last weeks have been challenging for Saab Automobile.
We are a car company. Designing and building distinctive cars according to a well honed, Swedish philosophy is what we do. And yet our production line – the beating heart of our company – has been idle for the last five weeks.
Though no-one’s fault but our own, we found ourselves in a cashflow crisis and unable to buy the parts we need to build our cars. This has hurt our dealers, our suppliers, our employees and many of our customers, a situation for which we are truly sorry. We want nothing more than to secure our financial position so that we can get to building cars again.
by Jeff
May 20, 2011 in Events
Who doesn’t remember the SAVE SAAB convoys from the beginning of last year? They brought many of us together and helped launch this website to become what it is today.
Our first convoy comes from Allan H. in Charlottesville, Va. As part of the build up to SAABs @ Carlisle 2011, Allan H. has been working to organize a caravan with Tim Whalen, the GM at International Motors in Falls Church Va, George Basehore, the Event Coordinator for SAABS @ Carlisle 2011, Ben Hinkle who has organized a SAAB group leaving from Frederick, Md. and the Central Penn SAAB Club.
Ben Hinkle’s group is meeting on Friday, May 20th at the Exxon Gas Station, located at 400 South Jefferson Street in Frederick, Md at 1:00 P.M. Allan’s group will be leaving from Charlottesville, Va, at 9:00 AM and traveling up Route 29 North to Route 15 North into Frederick, Md to meet with Ben’s group at the Exxon. They will continue on Route 15 North into Dillsburg, PA. Allan is making arrangements with his SAAB mechanic, in Charlottesville, Va, to arrange to meet at his SAAB specialty shop around 8:30 AM for coffee/donuts.
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SU Regular Coggs will also have details about his convoy coming from Massachusetts and Maine soon. As soon as we get more information you’ll know.
Details are still being ironed out, and this post will be updated to reflect them. Feel free to post in comments if you’re able to attend or if you would like to find out more information on any of the convoys.
by Carl-Henrik
May 20, 2011 in Events
Meg H gave us this update and we want to post it here into our calender (and yes, we are working on how we can change the graphic layout of the calender function – please be patient).
SAABS @ Carlisle is probably the second largest Saab gathering in North America and is arranged by Central Penn Saab Club. Pre-registrations are open until May 1st.
Location: Carlisle Fairgrounds in Carlisle, PA
For more info: Saab Club of North America
by TimR
May 19, 2011 in News
Just Auto (original article here) Saab said on Thursday some suppliers had agreed to restart deliveries and it was pursuing talks with others to get production going again after a month’s halt due to unpaid bills. Read the rest of this entry →
by TimR
May 19, 2011 in News
According to Dagens Industri (original article here) Victor Muller is not surrendering his bonus. But however he is waiting to take their money out. It emerged on Spyker’s meeting on Thursday. Muller also revealed that the factory in Trollhattan will be launched next Friday. Read the rest of this entry →
by TimR
May 19, 2011 in News
CEO Victor Muller (Spykercars) commissioned his aubergine Spyker 093. This piece is in part done in centuries old floorboards from a farm in Holland. These purple planks still have the nails (or, appropriately the ´spijkers´ as nails are called in Dutch) in it….
This piece will hang in the office of the CEO, in to the Zeewolde plant where the exclusive cars are built. His office now houses TWO Spykers: the one Oudhout did, and a real one, parked next to the conference table. Cool! Check out more about this at: http://www.oudhout.com/
Thanx Manfred for the link to this! =)
by TimR
May 19, 2011 in Uncategorized
TTELA reports (original article here) that Victor Muller is not surrendering his bonus of around 4.5 million SEK. But he will wait to cash out because of cash shortage in the company.
This is illustrated by Spyker Cars General Meeting today. Moreover, reports are given that the work with a new CEO for Saab is almost ready.
During the meeting, the VEB, the Dutch shares saves Association, questioned how Muller can collect a bonus of around 4.5 million when the plant in Trollhattan is stationary and the fund is more than empty. Read the rest of this entry →
by TimR
May 19, 2011 in News
Gothenburg Post (original article here) reports that Saab promises a quick start of the production, which is basically what was said in the interview with Pang Da’s chairman in an interview reported here on SU earlier today.
by TimR
May 19, 2011 in Uncategorized
Today is the launch of the new SU-Store. We have lots of cool products we’re gonna introduce shortly. Right now we’re launching the store with an EU-License Plate Holder with the text “www.SaabsUnited.com” written on it. All the earnings made by the store will go to introducing events all around the world! =)
The store is available in the menu bar and here is the first product:
by RobinM
May 19, 2011 in News
by TimR
May 19, 2011 in Saabology
While most of us now are longing for a warm summers day, here in Sweden its too cold for me right now =P Till sent us a very nice story! =)Photos by Anna Hult http://www.annahult.se/
Thursday
Everything seemed to be on scedule when I entered the plane in Munich at 20.00. But as we sat down the pilot informed us that there was heavy snowfall in Stockholm and Arlanda had only one of three runways ready for starts and landing. So we sat there until 22.00 saw us take off. Arrival at Stockholm about Midnight, arrival at hotel bed somewhere north of 2.00. But all of that could not spoil the excitement for what was yet to come.
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by Jeff
May 19, 2011 in News
On the day of the Annual Shareholder’s meeting in Holland, there’s reason for cautious optimism of production starting back up in about a week. But first Victor Muller faces a firing squad from Dutch investors association VEB. Meanwhile, BAIC’s VP Mr. Dong, claims he’s not too worried about Saab’s plans to compete with a new MJV, but just comes off sounding like a jealous ex.
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