Autoblog is reporting that the Saab 9-5 will move to Germany when it changes over to a new generation, leaving Trollhattan with no volume Saab product. The unnamed source reports that the Swedish plant will be used to build "niche products".
From an older TrollhattanSaab post:
Fast-forward to today, and there's the real possibility that GM may turn Saab into either a resounding success that echoes Saab's past, or, that they may turn Saab into a great crass-market producer of vehicles that are pretty much like all the others.
GM have tossed out a couple of bones this week. The retention of the Trollhattan plant is a good thing and the fact that Saabs will continue to be made there for a few years at least is, likewise, a good thing. These were the sweeteners for the bitter pill to come in today's announcement: that Saabs will not always be Swedish.
Is this the beginning of the end of Saab? Does it matter to customers if Saabs are a mix of re-badged GM, Subaru, and Opel products, none of which are built or engineered in Sweden?
