Comments on: SCANIA “Not Interested In Financially Supporting Saab Automobile”

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:30:11 +0000

Peter,

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

By: peter

peter — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:14:25 +0000

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

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:36:36 +0000

Ted,

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

By: Ted Y

Ted Y — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:17:18 +0000

… 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.

By: Peter F

Peter F — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:30:29 +0000

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