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• The 30 Most Expensive Car Crashes Of 2009 [Schadenfreude]

  
  Jalopnik — Authority: 760
  Supercars continue to get faster and more exotic, but theres little evidence to suggest their drivers are getting any better at driving. Weve been keeping score. Heres the 30 most expensive cars that crashed in 2009 (that we covered). To make even the lowest end of this list a car had to have an MSRP or auction ...
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• Hurry Up and Wait: Report says GM has no planned announcements regarding Saab

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 750
  Filed under: GM , Saab , Earnings/Financials Dont expect General Motors Corp. to make any new announcements regarding Saab now or in the near future, according GM spokesman Chris Preuss. According to a report in Automotive News , Preuss added that no new Saab deals are imminent with any interested ...
  4 days ago

• GM Says No Deal to Spykers Last-Ditch Bid for Saab

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 766
  The twisting saga of Saab Automobiles took another dramatic turn after a report surfaced that General Motors wont consider an 11th-hour bid for the Swedish automaker. Unswayed by the latest offer from Dutch sportscar maker Spyker Cars, Detroit-based GM is preparing to mothball Saab for good, The Economic Times ...
  5 days ago

• Spyker plan for Saab copies Koenigsegg says Swedish union

  
  Car Advice | News Blog — Authority: 553
  Following meetings between Sweden’s IF Metall Union and Saab bidder Spyker Cars yesterday, union representatives have told Reuters that Spyker’s business plan was a copy of an old plan made by Koenigsegg, the Swedish luxury carmaker which dropped its bid for Saab last month.Union chairman, Mr Stefan Lofven, told ...
  1 week ago

• Trouble in Trollhättan

  
  Bizmology — Authority: 122
  No matter what happens between now and the end of the year, it’s coal in the stockings of Saab Automobile employees for Jul . They may need it to get through this winter. A tumultuous year at Saab Auto was capped off last week with the announcement by General Motors , the Swedish company’s parent, that it ...
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• Will Saab’s Saad Saga End Happily with an Electric Car?

  
  Green Options — Authority: 146
  Lately, iconic Swedish automaker, Saab, has been the hottest potato in the world of nearly-doomed-but-possibly-still-alive auto brands. On the heels of a collapsed deal with Swedish luxury car maker, Koenigsegg , GM looked set to sell the Saab brand to little-known Dutch-run but Russian-backed luxury car maker, ...
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• Will Saab’s Saad Saga End Happily with an Electric Car?

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 162
  Lately, iconic Swedish automaker, Saab, has been the hottest potato in the world of nearly-doomed-but-possibly-still-alive auto brands. On the heels of a collapsed deal with Swedish luxury car maker, Koenigsegg , GM looked set to sell the Saab brand to little-known Dutch-run but Russian-backed luxury car maker, ...
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• GM Mum on New Offers for Saab

  
  Auto Observer — Authority: 570
  General Motors confirmed Sunday it has received "inquiries from several parties" for Saab, after the automaker announced Friday a deal with Dutch sports car maker Spyker to buy the Swedish brand collapsed . However, GM is not identifying new bidders nor is it commenting on any of the new offers, which include a ...
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• Meet Two Timepieces Inspired By Supercars and Obscene Luxury [Watches]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 889
  When supercar and uber luxury car manufacturers get together with masterclass timepiece makers, the result is going to be both obnoxiously expensive and strikingly beautiful. These two new timepieces...
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• REPORT: Swedish government to meet with GM officials - could Saab still be saved?

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 750
  Filed under: Performance , Government/Legal , Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , Plants/Manufacturing , GM , Saab , Earnings/Financials , Rumormill , Luxury Saab 9-5 - Click above for high-res image gallery Less than a day after General Motors officially announced Saabs euthanization , it looks ...
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• Horology and motoring tie-up brings out the timeless timepieces

  
  Born Rich — Authority: 674
  The art of combining two different skill sets has resulted in masterpieces. The tie-ups between the motoring world and Horology has brought chronographs never seen before. Below are the three latest tie-ups and their results: A tie-up between Jaeger-LeCoultre and Aston Martin has resulted in AMVOX3 Tourbillon GMT, of ...
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• Google May Go Local With Yelps Help

  
  The Big Money — Authority: 699
  General Motors is again ready to close Saab, the quirky Swedish car maker it bought twenty years ago and has been trying to figure out what to do with ever since. The worldwide economic crisis, bailout, bankruptcy and restructuring of the once iconic American car maker has helped it to finally answer that question. We ...
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• Saab To Close, GM Wields The Axe After Negotiations With Spyker Collapse

  
  The Motor Report: Auto News And Reviews — Authority: 537
  SAAB, THE ONCE ICONIC Swedish brand of daring aeroplane-inspired turbo cars, is headed for oblivion. Twenty years to the month since it gained control of Saab (in December 1989), GM has announced the company is to close. Negotiations for its sale with the ‘last-chance’ aspirant, Dutch specialist car-builder ...
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• Saab Runs out of Gas

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 676
  Filed under: General Motors (GM) When it comes to selling companies, General Motors has had some bad luck lately. The company pulled its deal for Opel off the market. Then its proposed sale of Saturn failed (the company is in the process of being liquidated). As for this week, there was another dead deal: the ...
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• Saab Dead

  
  Automoblog.net — Authority: 130
  Well, that’s it then: Saab is dead. Or at least it will be very dead soon. GM couldn’t make the numbers work with selling a brand they had no business buying in the first place, and seemingly had no idea how to run or market, and now a very good an innovative car company, that was also one of the people that put ...
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• Saab Auto Group: 1947-2009

  
  CarEnvy.ca — Authority: 429
  It is with great sadness that we report the death of Saab’s auto division. The automaker had been producing cars for 62 years. GM, Saab’s owner, had been trying to offload the struggling brand for some time now as a part of its restructuring. Things were looking up for the brand when fellow Swedish supercar maker ...
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• Saab looks poised to disappear off the radar

  
  Calvin Palmer's Weblog — Authority: 125
  By Calvin Palmer I have never owned a Saab car and now I never will. Today, General Motors announced it will shut down Saab after talks with a prospective buyer, the Dutch company Spyker Cars, broke down. GM vice president John Smith said talks with the Swedish government and Spyker fell apart this morning. He ...
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• GM Fulfills Low Expectations, Kills Off Saab

  
  Ride Lust - Motion + Mobility — Authority: 118
  After purportedly exhausting every possible alternative, or least deliberating long enough to appear as though they had, General Motors has opted to kill off their long-suffering Swedish subsidiary, Saab. Although many blogs/any amateur with access to Wordpress claim to feel sadness and shock, those industry ...
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• Saab story ends

  
  DealZone — Authority: 434
  It’s official. General Motors will wind down operations at its loss-making Swedish unit Saab after an attempt to sell it to small Dutch luxury carmaker Spyker Cars failed. Things were already looking dire for a deal weeks ago. GM said early in the month it would consider offers for Saab until the end of the month ...
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• Breaking: Saab Sale Cannot Be Concluded…Brand to be Wound Down

  
  AutoNewscast.com — Authority: 141
  Saab Sale Cannot Be Concluded…Brand to be Wound Down 2009-12-18 Detroit.  General Motors announced today that the intended sale of Saab Automobile AB would not be concluded. After the withdrawal of Koenigsegg Group AB last month, GM had been in discussions with Spyker Cars about its interest in acquiring Saab. ...
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