the Story of Saab’s rise and fall is both beautiful and sad. And already narrated. Point to the part of the story here.
the Saab continue to live, both our 9-3X model year 2010 and all of the other Cars the world over who have escaped corruption. On that basis, I control the out from Stockholm late on a Sunday afternoon in February, with Mariestad as a captivating first stop after the 30 miles of trouble free driving.
DN’s envoy and museum curator Peter Bäckström, in-depth V4-snack at the Saab Car Museum in Trollhättan. Photo: Urban Edin
follow in cell number 1225 in the stands, converted into hotels and hostels. At its port may 9-3:an well-deserved rest.
Monday dawns. A police officer at the Grove on state highway 44, with radarpistol in hand, have nothing to download from the us. The 70 limit should be kept.
With the gps using the lands we at lunch in Orio, bildelsföretaget formerly Saab Automobile Parts. With a location almost adjacent to the renowned Saab Car Museum in Trollhättan see Orios employees to spare parts for the defunct brand is secured, both the new ones and the refurbishment of existing parts.
It is immediately apparent that there is a big heart for Saab here in the office in Trollhättan.
– the New 9-5 was engineered by Saab as a Saab, it is wrong to call it a copy of another brand, ” says Alan Ludwell with aplomb.
He is a brit who at a young age came to Trollhättan and was looking for a job as an engineer at Volvo aero Engine.
But Volvo did not want me, they worked with military products, and I was the alien. Then I went straight across the street to the Saab. And where I got a job, ” says Ludwell, who in the role as a sales manager than in the day, Saab has as its material.
Our 9-3X was received in Trollhättan of Orios Urban Edin. Photo: Kalle Holmberg
the thing, but nothing that forms the commercial basis for the business. It does, however, the approximately 250,000 Cars that even rolls in Sweden. These cars together with around 750.000 Saabarna in the rest of the world is Orios focus.
“But we are careful to use the brand Saab, it belongs to the defence group Saab AB We use Saab Original name of our products, longer than so can we not go,” says Urban Edin, responsible for marketing and customer relations, if the thousands of parts from suppliers in both Sweden and abroad as Orio deliver on.
the Actual distributionsnavet in this is in the company’s large warehouse in Nyköping.
Before this road trip for us where I control the however, the 9-3X to the north of Trollhättan dense traffic, to the factory where our projektbil for 16.644 miles then rolled off the band on 28 August 2009, the year of 2010. A very understanding guardian in the current action against the factory owner Nevs inspected lets me set up the Saab in front of the gate for photography. Here you got to…
This was it, in August 2009: the project car at the Nevs factory, formerly Saab Automobile in Trollhättan north of the settlement. Photo: Kalle Holmberg
the direction to the northeast, on the vast parts of so deplorable E20. It has time to be late before we get the night’s sleep in a bed and breakfast in the country town of Vingåker. During the following morning, the sun shines over us in the remaining scarce nine miles to Nyköping. Of OKQ8 next to the city bus station gets This an automatic car wash model.
Dan Samuelsson, chief operating officer, and Bengt Ekholm, customer service employees, open one of the gates to the Orios gigantic warehouse in the city of Nyköping city. Soon our freshly washed projektbil inside the building, with the vastness of the shelf system forming the background. We had asked for that picture – and we get it: Our Saab surrounded by elements that together can keep it together just a Saab.
the Business, which is about the car brand is not growing any longer. Logistics services for other customers to give some compensation.
forklift driver Martina Adolfsson take height for even a Saab-orders. Photo: Jacques Wallner
Inevitable that the element decreases, the pace has leveled out. But we want to keep the cars rolling as long as possible, ” says Dan Samuelsson.
He ensures that there is very Saab-heart at work:
– For many, it was painful to see the parent company go bankrupt. Clearly, there is a pride here in Nyköping to get to work for Saab. It is still so.
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