Theories about GM & Saab

I found those several comments on the web . I think they are interesting and deserved to be shared here .


--------------------------------------------


Also, do not be surprised if there are other reasons that GM is fearful of SAABs survival. I have a gut feeling that there is information on actions taken by GM while they owned SAAB. Specifically whether or not GM "cooked the books" and transferred liabilities and debts into SAAB all while transferring assets away from SAAB - the latter we know they did - and all of which would cause them to be crucified by even the government.


--------------------------------------------
GM aka Communist Obama Motors needs to go bankrupt. Their "technology" is what RUINED Saab to begin with. 9-7x anyone? Did Ford rebadge an Explorer and sell it as a Volvo XC90? Hell no. GM needs to be dumped in the trash where it belongs.


--------------------------------------------
GM gets money from me in the form of a bailout and then turns down a additional revenue stream? I guess they are not in the mood to make more money.


And please spare me the "let others have their technology" line. Trust me, SAAB doesn't want the GM tech any longer than absolutely neccessary. What is needed is a short term license deal; say 2 years or less to allow the model range to still have 3 vehicles for sale and give SAAB time to finish the Phoenix platform. GM will never have any thing that we actually want or covet for our cars. They are a means to an end right now.


GM screwed SAAB royally as a parent and is now trying to turn the knife even more because they know that if SAAB survives that they will go on to great things and it will show the total ineptitude of GM as a whole that they couldn't be successful when they owned SAAB.


I can't wait for GM to go bankrupt and hopefully this time our stupid government here in the USA will let them.


-------------------------------------------


GM obviously doesn't care (and surely Americans don't) about what happens to employees in Trollhättan. The culture at GM has always been arrogant and self-serving, whether at union or corporate levels. Ford worked out a deal to sell Volvo, Land Rover, Jaguar, Aston Martin and somehow it all worked out nicely. Yet when it comes to GM, they can't let a sick child get proper treatment.


Surreal. I'm pro free-market, capitalism, no regulation, etc,, in other words, I'm pro-business, but what GM has done here is appalling and inexcusable.


-------------------------------------------


Whats funny is how many things Saab developed while it was with GM and then GM turns around and patents Saabs technologies, gets rid of Saab and now wont let Saab use their own tech in their cars. Thats the way corporate greed works, GM squeezed Saab dry and then threw it away. Without Cadillac and Saab tech GM would be nothing.