With this agreement, many of our original intentions with the Saab brand will still take shape and w

This is the Saab PhoeniX Concept car rental in phoenix , which debuted at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, and which hides the brand new platform that Spyker developed for the next-generation 9-3 lineup. Unlike the now-defunct Saab 9-4X and Saab 9-5, which were heavily based on General Motors technology, which was the reason why GM stood in the way of every one of Spyker s attempts to sell Saab to any of several Chinese conglomerates car rental in phoenix that had expressed interest, which in turn ultimately car rental in phoenix forced Saab into bankruptcy, the new 9-3 platform belonged to Spyker.
General Motors bought Saab a long time ago, and then proceeded to alternately dilute its brand value and ignore it. Not surprisingly, everyone except hard-core Saab loyalists, people seeking cheap luxury car lease deals, and rental car companies stopped buying them. When GM declared bankruptcy, Saab was going to be folded into Old GM with Saturn and Hummer.
car rental in phoenix Dutch supercar builder Spyker decided car rental in phoenix to buy Saab, which included the aging 9-3, the new 9-5, and the soon-to-debut 9-4X. But when Spyker couldn t keep Saab financed long enough to get the brand back on its feet, it tried to sell Saab to a number of Chinese companies looking for a quick way into the car business.
General Motors, supplying design, engineering and components for the new 9-4X and 9-5, balked, claiming car rental in phoenix it did not want Chinese companies to compete against car rental in phoenix GM with its own technology. Because Spyker could no longer finance Saab, and because Spyker could not sell Saab, Spyker was forced to close Saab. And now Spyker is suing General Motors over the matter.
Back to the Saab PhoeniX Concept. Spyker is hooking up with Zhejiang Youngman to produce luxury cars and SUVs based on this concept car s platform, which Youngman bought back in 2011. Youngman was one of the companies to which Spyker attempted to sell Saab last year before GM stamped out the last remaining embers of the Saab flame.
With this framework agreement, Youngman and Spyker lay the foundation for an intense cooperation whereby we will pursue the objectives we each had in mind when we were forging our cooperation as partners in Saab Automobile AB. We clearly share the vision on how to shape Spyker s future car rental in phoenix as partners going forward. Spyker CEO Victor Muller
With this agreement, many of our original intentions with the Saab brand will still take shape and we are excited to help Spyker further develop its vehicle model range with the SSUV and vehicles based on Saab Automobile s Phoenix platform technology both in China as well as in the rest of the world. Pang Qingnian, Zhejiang Youngman CEO
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