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Once they are found to be innocent that will happen.

I rather think they were there to provide evidence against bigger fish ?

Swedish employment tax becomes due when an individual is tax resident – normally meaning they have been resident in Sweden for over 6 months in one tax year.

It is fairly standard that consultants work in many […]

International tax is very complicated.

If VM spent over 6 months in Sweden during one tax year, he would become resident and liable to Swedish taxes.

If he was in Sweden for a lesser period, then it seems […]

I’d go with that ………………………………

I read into this that the new Saab company want to do business with BMW.

Hybrid with BMW power ?

Some valuable information from those who were there at the time on both sides : http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101129/OEM01/311299980/1193

Keith O Butler Wheelhouse lived in a village south of Trollhattan.

Saab had a long history in Italy.

In the 1990′s* they sold over 6000 cars through Sidauto.
Edoardo Pagani, the owner of Sidauto, died and the business declined until being eventually taken over by Saab […]

Tim …

You have to look at this in terms of the market. Sweden “enjoys” 25% sales tax that drives all prices up.

Saab in Sweden was priced as a family car. Saab in Europe was priced to compete with BMW and […]

Tim …

The point is that in a market of 1,000,000,000 you only need 0.1% to be able to buy cars in the €40,000+ segment to have a potential of 1,000,000 cars. If Saab could take c10% of this segment we are […]

The only exception I know of is perceived high level cars sold in Japan.
Lancia sold LHD only in Japan, Saab was 50% each. The Japanese think that LHD are imported, therefore expensive.

It would be hard to […]

Can’t help noticing how sad the empty factory looks …

Always the same. When business stops money stops flowing. The business plan was always marginal.

If VM had been able to continue production and actually sold that production it would possibly have generated the […]

Just to reflect on the level of debt.

Working in Euros, Saab owe €1,500,000,000

Going back to the original business plan, break even was around 80,000 units. So, at an average factory sales price of, say, […]

I had a call yesterday from an old friend to discuss his motoring needs.

He is a 78 year old Swede who lives in South France and drives a fully loaded 9-3 1.9 tdi 20,000km each year including one summer return […]

Circuit Pole mecanique Alès is often used for testing. It has the advantage of weather – it has 300 days of sunshine each year and very rarely freezes. It is about 20km from my house.

Google satellite view : […]

I think is the link : http://www.friendsreunited.com/signedin/workgroup.aspx?work_key=6021012&member_key=10860501

Saab Great Britain was formed in 1963 as a 100% subsidiary, replacing the original independent regional distributors.

The special edition Saab 900 Tjugofem was to celebrate the first 25 years of Saab Great […]

Test drives were crucial to Saab.

Research showed that Saab had virtually no awareness in the target buyer group. This is not good but a bad image would be worse.

A structured test drive demonstrating all […]

Service only outlets would have to be multi franchise. They could not survive on 40 minutes per unit labour sales every 2 years. Provision of parts ordering, technical training, warranty admin and special tools […]