Saab Lives! As The BAIC C70
While Saab in Sweden is in the emergency room with wires and drips attached, Saab will be back from the dead at the Guangzhou Auto Show. This is when BAIC will show what they have produced from the Saab tooling that they had bought at fire-sale-prices when Saab had gone bust before.
According to Chinacartimes, Beijing’s BAIC will unleash the ghosts of Saab as the C70 sedan. No finished pictures are out, but Chinacartimes offers up some pretty good photoshopped impressions.
Bertel Schmitt comes back to journalism after taking a 35 year break in advertising and marketing. He ran and owned advertising agencies in Duesseldorf, Germany, and New York City. Volkswagen A.G. was Bertel's most important corporate account. Schmitt's advertising and marketing career touched many corners of the industry with a special focus on automotive products and services. Since 2004, he lives in Japan and China with his wife <a href="http://www.tomokoandbertel.com"> Tomoko </a>. Bertel Schmitt is a founding board member of the <a href="http://www.offshoresuperseries.com"> Offshore Super Series </a>, an American offshore powerboat racing organization. He is co-owner of the racing team Typhoon.
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I guess GM had no issue letting that technology go to China?
It looks like a VW Eos sedan. Morbid curiousity had me follow Bertel's links to Saabsunited where I found the new Cadilyack XTS billed as a 9-5 sibling. Maybe Saab dealers should buy some XTSs and some Saab badges. Other than contractual issues, what would be the difference?