Date: 29 Apr 2005 12:06:13 -0700 From: "saabyurk" <tednospamrkon.com> Subject: Re: From Businessweek: "Pontiac, Buick, and Saab would follow Oldsmobile to the scrap heap."
Saab Guy wrote: > More information on Saab-Scania: > > Starting in 1995, when the Saab-Scania Group was disintegrated and a 50 percent holding in Saab Automobile was taken by Investor AB, Scania began using a new version of the earlier Group symbol. > > I just want more information as to WHY. > I'll get my SAAB books out tonight and see if they are more enlightening on this subject. I wish now that the planned Volvo-SAAB merger hadn't fallen through way back (1970's?). Maybe the two could have survived as one. Funny thing, as I recall, Volvo didn't want to build FWD cars, and SAAB didn't want to build RWD cars. Now look! I found a BBC article from 1990 that Volvo truck company was all set to buy Scania, lock, stock and barrel, but the EU nixed that, and even forced Volvo to sell some of their B shares in Scania later on. > If that "why" for the split could be somehow "reversed", then Saab would have a good opportunity with SCANIA once again which would sit well on basically everyone period!! :) Yup.
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