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发帖数: 14642 | 1 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/19/saab-bankruptcy-automa
Saab Bankruptcy: Automaker Files In Sweden
STOCKHOLM — Saab Automobile filed for bankruptcy on Monday, giving up a
desperate struggle to stay in business after previous owner General Motors
Co. blocked takeover attempts by Chinese investors.
Saab CEO Victor Muller personally handed in the bankruptcy application to a
court in southwestern Sweden, ending his two-year effort to revive the
carmaker that over more than six decades has become known for its rounded
sedans and quirky design features.
The Dutch entrepreneur told reporters he had to pull the plug after GM,
which still owns some technology licenses for Saab, rejected a last-ditch
financing plan involving a Chinese company.
"That basically was the last nail in the coffin of this beautiful company,"
Muller said in webcast news conference at the Saab plant in Trollhattan,
southwestern Sweden.
The Vanersborg District Court was expected to approve the application later
Monday.
"This is the most unwelcome Christmas gift I could have imagined," said
Fredrik Almqvist, 36, who has worked at Saab's assembly line for nearly 17
years.
While experts say the company is likely to be chopped up and sold in parts,
local officials in the town of Trollhattan, where Saab employs more than 3,
000 people, were holding out hope that a new buyer would emerge to salvage
the brand.
"Our absolute hope is that the bankruptcy administrator will aim for a
solution where the company is sold in its entirety," Trollhattan Mayor Paul
Akerlund said in a statement.
Muller used his luxury sports car maker Spyker Cars to buy Saab from GM in
2010, promising to restore its Swedish identity, but the company ran out of
money just a year later.
Even as production stopped and salary payments were delayed, Muller fended
off bankruptcy by selling the company's real estate and lining up financing
deals with investors in Russia and China. He bought time by placing the
company in a reconstruction process under bankruptcy protection.
But the deals fell through, blocked by regulators or by GM, which was
concerned that its technology would end up in the hands of Chinese
competitors.
The final Chinese suitor, Zhejiang Youngman Lotus Automobile Co., said it
pulled out after the last proposal for a solution was rejected by GM over
the weekend.
"We were supporting them to the last moment, even up to 1 a.m. this morning
we were discussing possible solutions by telephone, but due to GM's position
, in the end Sweden's Saab filed for bankruptcy this morning," said Rachel
Pang, an executive director of a subsidiary company of Youngman and daughter
of Youngman's founder, Pang Qingnian.
Muller blamed the former administrator of Saab's reconstruction, Guy Lofalk,
for the collapse of the talks, saying Lofalk had led the Chinese investors
to believe they could become sole owners of the company. Muller said he knew
that was impossible given GM's concerns about licenses.
"Until this problem arose the relationship with GM was excellent," Muller
said.
Calls to Lofalk's office were not answered Monday.
Swedish lawyer and reconstruction expert Peter Smedman said the prospects of
selling Saab during bankruptcy proceedings would depend on GM.
"The licenses that GM has are crucial for the value of the company," Smedman
said. "If GM doesn't want to let anyone in because they are scared of
competition in China, then there is probably not much (value) left."
Originally an aircraft maker, Saab entered into the auto market after World
War II with the first production of the two-stroke-engine Saab 92. It soon
became a household name in Sweden and in the 1970's it released its first
turbocharged model – the landmark Saab 99.
To auto enthusiasts, Saab was known for its quirks such as placing the
ignition lock between the front seats and becoming the first car to have
heated seating in 1971.
GM bought a 50 percent stake and management control of Saab in 1989, and
gained full ownership in 2000. The aircraft and defense company with the
same name remained an independent entity, building fighter jets and weapons
systems.
Saab Automobile's sales peaked at 133,000 cars in 2006. After that, sales
dwindled to 93,000 cars in 2008 and just 27,000 in 2009, as GM – itself in
bankruptcy protection following the financial crisis – prepared to wind
down the Swedish brand.
Muller stepped in after a takeover attempt by a consortium led by Swedish
sports car maker Koenigsegg failed. Analysts expressed doubt over Saab's
chances of survival under Spyker, which later changed its name to Swedish
Automobile.
Spyker manufactured only a few dozen high-priced cars a year. Without
support from other investors, Muller's plans didn't seem credible, critics
said.
Concerns mounted as Saab failed to pay suppliers early this year. Production
was stopped in March, restarted, then halted again as the liquidity crisis
deepened.
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AP Business Writer Elaine Kurtenbach in Shanghai contributed to this report. | p******u
发帖数: 14642 | 2 看看，saab给gm收购后就没自己得核心技术了，新车50％零件都是米帝的，和通用
lecross和malibu同平台。被gm吸光了技术扫地出门后想卖给土鳖都因为米帝得知识产
权拥有权被否决了
a
【在 p******u 的大作中提到】
: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/19/saab-bankruptcy-automa
: Saab Bankruptcy: Automaker Files In Sweden
: STOCKHOLM — Saab Automobile filed for bankruptcy on Monday, giving up a
: desperate struggle to stay in business after previous owner General Motors
: Co. blocked takeover attempts by Chinese investors.
: Saab CEO Victor Muller personally handed in the bankruptcy application to a
: court in southwestern Sweden, ending his two-year effort to revive the
: carmaker that over more than six decades has become known for its rounded
: sedans and quirky design features.
: The Dutch entrepreneur told reporters he had to pull the plug after GM,
| h**z
发帖数: 9751 | 3 gm几乎所有的车型都是废铜烂铁，开过都知道。跟美帝合资的下场，就是被榨干后dump
，连个活口都不留。 | d*********e
发帖数: 1194 | | p******u
发帖数: 14642 | 5 你要龟了就买北汽的山寨93，95呗
【在 d*********e 的大作中提到】
: Saab啊一代名车 5555又败坏在MD手里啦
| d*********e
发帖数: 1194 | 6
国内人没听说过，以为95年款呢，伤不起
话说Saab95那设计也就95年水平
【在 p******u 的大作中提到】
: 你要龟了就买北汽的山寨93，95呗
| M*****8
发帖数: 17722 | 7
a
看来也许中国企业以后要搞收购必需用间接手段。
也就是用当地的公司代为收购，完毕后转卖自己。
转卖的形式可以先合资，然后逐渐的转移和转让。
【在 p******u 的大作中提到】
: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/19/saab-bankruptcy-automa
: Saab Bankruptcy: Automaker Files In Sweden
: STOCKHOLM — Saab Automobile filed for bankruptcy on Monday, giving up a
: desperate struggle to stay in business after previous owner General Motors
: Co. blocked takeover attempts by Chinese investors.
: Saab CEO Victor Muller personally handed in the bankruptcy application to a
: court in southwestern Sweden, ending his two-year effort to revive the
: carmaker that over more than six decades has become known for its rounded
: sedans and quirky design features.
: The Dutch entrepreneur told reporters he had to pull the plug after GM,
| M*****8
发帖数: 17722 | 8
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个人觉得挖掘有关键技术的人才是最高效益的投资。
知识产权又如何？能从懂的专家学来自己用就成了。
国内应该设立高科技的各行各业的逆向工程研究所。
招聘全球的顶尖专家来中国互相竞争的传授新技术。
【在 p******u 的大作中提到】
: 看看，saab给gm收购后就没自己得核心技术了，新车50％零件都是米帝的，和通用
: lecross和malibu同平台。被gm吸光了技术扫地出门后想卖给土鳖都因为米帝得知识产
: 权拥有权被否决了
:
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| p******u
发帖数: 14642 | 9 是的，人可以请，设备也可以拍卖，反正土鳖要真想把saab弄到手不是没有办法的。问
题是国内车企发展得太快，有资金的车企都有自己的同等级平台了，谁去鸟丫的。而且
品牌这东西也买不来，国内4大4小没缺钱的，只是不想接盘而已。再看看像青年这样自
身没有制造／设计汽车的经验又不能拿下知识产权，需要时间去搞研发，哪等得及啊？
【在 M*****8 的大作中提到】
:
: ......................
: 个人觉得挖掘有关键技术的人才是最高效益的投资。
: 知识产权又如何？能从懂的专家学来自己用就成了。
: 国内应该设立高科技的各行各业的逆向工程研究所。
: 招聘全球的顶尖专家来中国互相竞争的传授新技术。
| p******u
发帖数: 14642 | 10 新saab95竟然tnnd卖5万2，有那钱还不如买奔驰宝马奥迪了
【在 M*****8 的大作中提到】
:
: ......................
: 个人觉得挖掘有关键技术的人才是最高效益的投资。
: 知识产权又如何？能从懂的专家学来自己用就成了。
: 国内应该设立高科技的各行各业的逆向工程研究所。
: 招聘全球的顶尖专家来中国互相竞争的传授新技术。
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