Spyker announces Saab jobs boost

This is brilliant news.

I hope SAAB goes from strength to strength.

"Saab was originally hoping to sell up to 250,000 units per year, a target set last year by Forster's predecessor Peter Augustsson. However, last year's sales results of only 133,167 cars worldwide meant that Saab lost money and a more conservative target of just breaking even is more reasonable."

This from the 2007 report.

So Spyker is (A company that also runs at a constant loss, who purchased a bigger company with bigger debts which also runs at a loss since 1989) big plan is to make even less cars to sell than in 2007 (Where SAAB LOST 3 Billion Kronnoe, yes that is Billion with a "B") and hire 500 more people to do it with. Yeah that math works!

Truth is the world has hit saturation point when it comes to car manufacturers...and the to employ someone in the Nordic countries costs companies BIG $$$ compare to other countries. Companies like SAAB should have invested in new engine technology to produce greener cleaner world or dare we hope engines that turn water into Hydrogen....for the companies that do this, will then be producing for most of the world.

It is a good thing the Swedish government choose not to bail SAAB out again....because when this farce of "we will build more cars and sell more cars and employ more people" with two companies that couldn't get credit for a visa card with the debts and bad credit line they have finally plays out....it will not be us directly paying for it.

Graeme.H.

So you are an expert on the auto industry as well as the sex industry, your knowledge is seemingly limitless.

Good news. I hope they can meet their sales goals. They will need the additional employees in engineering and design. Good for Trollhattan too.

Spy, must you always resort to personal insults? Graeme have you plenty of material to refute based on the merit of its content, but you choose to insult instead.

I guess if they are not greedy with prices and are up to scratch with quality they can sell as many cars as they like !

good value cars sell well and foster good will to buy !

as long as they have got away from the American business model of selling something crappy so that they make money on spare parts and replacing it when it dies after two years! quality not quantity of product not money!

there is a saying in my country "greedy will get you in a mess"

Great that this company has been saved from ruinous American hands!

spy is that the best argument to have? Ad hominem attack?

I guess your religious belief in the inevitable success of Saab isn't backed by any logical reasons that you can tell us about.

I used to drive SAABs. Not anymore. Even BMW is cheaper to run. 9-5 is a ridiculously old model and 9-3 is going south as well. Unless Spyker does something drastic SAAB is gonna end up in a ditch. Again.

Twiceshy

Well done for knowing what a hominem attack is - I always thought you were a philistine.