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Originally Posted by syr74

The problem with anyone buying Saab now is that Saab's cars are so heavily GM based. Platform sharing is one thing, but these cars are so heavily tied to their GM cousins any purchaser would no doubt feel the need to redo the entire lineup in short order. And frankly, this is not helped in any way by the fact that Saabs are not the cars they should be. In essence if you bought Saab you would be buying the name, distribution network (assuming that isn't so heavily tied to GM now it is unsalvageable), and some factories....but not really any auto designs.

If GM realizes this and prices Saab accordingly then this could be an attractive deal for a perspective puchaser. If not GM will have Saab until it sinks into the dark, murky depths. As an example of what I mean, when BMW sold MG/Rover they quite literally paid the purchaser, in the form of a several million dollar "loan" they never expected to be paid, to take the company off their hands. And frankly, were it me I would much rather have taken MG-Rover off of BMW's hands at that time than buy into Saab at this point.

I would expect Renault to make a bid for ailing Jaguar long before they went after Saab.

Wow...very good points.....never thought of it that way.....Maybe Jaguar