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Saab Automobile
Sign in to saveAlso known as Saab Automobile AB, Saab, Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget, X9248, Project 92
defunct Swedish car manufacturer (1945-2016)
Key facts
- Company type
- Division
- Industry
- Automotive
- Founded
- 1945 ( 1945 )
- Founder
- Saab AB
- Fate
- Bankrupt
- Successor
- NEVS
- Headquarters
- Trollhättan , Sweden
- Area served
- Worldwide
- Key people
- Jan-Åke Jonsson (final General Manager)
- Products
- Automobiles
- Parent
- Saab AB (1945–1968), Saab-Scania (1968–1990), General Motors (1990–2010), Spyker N.V. (2010–2012), NEVS (2012–2014)
- Divisions
- Saab Aero
- Website
- saabparts.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- automobile manufacturer
- Country
- Sweden
- Founded by
- Saab Group
- Headquarters
- Trollhättan
- Parent organization
- Saab Group
- Industry
- automotive industry
- Legal form
- aktiebolag
- Image
- Schild der Saab-Autofabrik in Nyköping.jpg
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- Commons category
- Saab Automobile
- inception
- 1945-00-00
- location of formation
- Linköping
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2011-00-00
- product or material produced
- car
- different from
- Saab Group
- replaced by
- National Electric Vehicle Sweden
- end cause
- bankruptcy
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Encyclopedic overview
Saab Automobile AB (/sɑːb/) was a car manufacturer that was founded in Sweden in 1945 when its parent company, Saab AB, began a project to design a small automobile. The first production model, the Saab 92, was launched in 1949. In 1968, the parent company merged with Scania-Vabis, and ten years later the Saab 900 was launched, in time becoming Saab's best-selling model. In the mid-1980s, the new Saab 9000 model also appeared.
In 1989, the automobile division of Saab-Scania was restructured into an independent company, Saab Automobile AB. The American manufacturer General Motors (GM) took 50 percent ownership. Two well-known models to come out of this period were the Saab 9-3 and the Saab 9-5. Then, in 2000, GM exercised its option to acquire the remaining 50 percent. In 2010, GM sold Saab Automobile AB to the Dutch automobile manufacturer Spyker Cars N.V.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saab Automobile” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.