SCANIA “Not Interested In Financially Supporting Saab Automobile”

5 Responses to “SCANIA “Not Interested In Financially Supporting Saab Automobile””

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   Peter F
   

   01. Dec, 2008

   gotta love the Swedes they cut through the BS with a crystal clear answer..

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2. 

   Ted Y
   

   01. Dec, 2008

   … and, I suppose, Saab Automobile’s problems wouldn’t hurt Saab Defence, so I doubt they would be interested in helping Saab Automobile. Doubt that they could share in any research projects anyway.

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   Ryan
   

   01. Dec, 2008

   Ted,

   Good point, it would be interesting if “SAAB” would offer any support to Saab Automobile as well.

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4. 

   peter
   

   01. Dec, 2008

   Scania has delivered a polite response.

   They could have added that the Wallenberg family engineered the unhappy Saab-Scania marriage as a means of saving Saab in 1969. Scania shared the losses from Saab until 1999. Once bitten, twice shy ?

   Note that Scania is controlled by VW. Why would VW want a loss making former car manufacturer that competes (not very succesfully) with AUDI and increasingly VW itself ?

   Peter

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5. 

   Ryan
   

   01. Dec, 2008

   Peter,

   Correct, I can’t see VW thinking about financially supporting a competitor.

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