Friends,
Since GM can’t find a real, funded buyer for Saab, they’ve decided to fold the brand known best for its weirdness eccentricities. Its U.S. consumer base seemed to me to be centered in Vermont consisting largely of retired professors wearing tweed sportcoats with suede elbow patches. The pipe-smoking intelligentsia seems to have passed, or at least passed the flame to Subaru nowadays. Here’s the grim truth from our friends at The Truth About Cars…
The company’s U.S. high was 48,181 in 1986. In 2009 YTD, Saab sold 7,812 cars in the US.
So long, Swedish weirdos. We hardly knew ye.
– bob