It seems more and more that the owners of Saab's former factory in Trollhättan have realized that production will never start again.
They could have started again. But now the huge hydraulic presses at Saab's former car factory in Trollhättan must be dismantled.
It is hoped that the factory owners can find new take-offs for the presses that have pushed every single Saab model since the 1960s onto the roads.
– They have pushed everything from the Saab 96 and 99 to the last 9-5, it is no small thing. But it is also news to me, says Peter Bäckström, curator at the Saab Car Museum, to Carup .
The museum is located right next to the car factory, which is now to be dismantled. It is rumored that there is already interest from countries such as China and the United States. Even though the oldest hydraulic machines in Trollhättan date back to 1967.
When new, Saab built the 96 and 99 models. Since then, the press has shaped the contours of the Saab 900, 9000, 9-3 and 9-5.
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It was the same machines that came to a standstill when Saab Saab Automobile went bankrupt in 2012. Since then, the Chinese-owned NEVS, National Electric Vehicle Sweden, tried to get production going again.
However, they quickly lost the rights to the Saab logo and the economics of the project. It all finally collapsed when the Chinese owners themselves went bankrupt in 2023.
The latest new from the known is a coal-sailed project with a strange Lebanese businessman who bought the rights to the last car that the ex-Saab employees were behind.
That project also collapsed, however, because businessman Jihad Mohammad reneged on the terms of the agreement to build cars at the factory in Sweden. And now it seems that cars will never be built in Trollhättan again.
By the way, did you know that it was a Dane who in 2019 bought the last Saab ever. Claus, who lives in Hadsund in Jutland, paid 325,000 Danish kroner for the car. Read more about it here .
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