With Russian financiers offering up to $100m to back the new Saab-Spyker project, it’s not surprising that the internet is awash with glad tidings of new cars from the new Dutch-Swedish venture. On the Saab side, CEO Victor Muller and company are teasing analysts with news that Saab is “already working on plans” for a new compact car, tentatively named 9-1. Having quoted Muller as saying the 9-1 had a “better than average chance”of being built (whatever that means), Automotive News Europe [sub] filled in the blanks:
[The 9-1] would be needed to help achieve Saab’s stated goal of closing the gap with BMW and Audi. Saab debuted a concept for an entry-premium car at the 2008 Geneva auto show. ANE sister publication AutoWeek named the 9-X BioHybrid the best concept at that year’s event.
This has all been given to us as a nice package, saying, ‘Good luck with it,’
Tagged as 9-1, GM, Saab, Saab-Spyker, Spyker, Victor Muller
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…the 9-1 ha[s] a “better than average chance” of being built…
Really? But what are the odds of anyone buying? My guess is that in less than 5 years SAAB is dead again.