Dongfeng and Mahindra wants share in Nevs

June 17, 2014Goran AničićNo commentDongfeng Mahindra NEVS PhoeniX SAAB 9-3

The clock is ticking for Saab-Nevs and must find a solution before the end of June. According to several sources Nevs negotiating with Chinese Dongfeng and Indian Mahindra. Mahindra will be interested in an ownership in Nevs while Dongfeng will be cooperating around the new Phoenix platform.

It feels a bit surprising that Dongfeng interested, because Dongfeng was last winter bought 14 percent of the large automotive group PSA Peugeot Citroën for € 800 million. But Dongfeng is interested in Phoenix platform and be able to use it on different car models – even in sizes above and below the Saab 9-3 model.

So expect that the parties are trying to find a solution. And Nevs is in a fairly poor negotiation position.

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Once again – it is still too early to say that we will see new Saab cars :(

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Goran AničićJune 17, 2014

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For over 15 years, Goran Aničić has been passionately focused on Saab automobiles and everything related to them. His initial encounter with Saab cars took place back in 2003 when the first Saab 9-3 and sedan version were introduced. At that moment, he was captivated by the car's Scandinavian design logic and top-notch engineering, and everything that followed stemmed from that first encounter. Later on, through his work at the editorial team of the Serbian automotive magazines "Autostart" and later "AutoBild," he had the opportunity to engage more closely with Saab vehicles. In 2008, he tested the latest Saab cars of that time, such as the Saab 9-3 TTiD Aero and Saab 9-3 Turbo X. In 2010, as the sole blogger from the region, he participated in the Saab 9-5ng presentation in Trollhättan, Sweden. Alongside journalists from around the world, he got a firsthand experience of the pinnacle of technological offerings from Saab at that time. Currently, Goran owns two Saabs: a 2008 Saab 9-3 Vector Sportcombi with a manual transmission, and a Saab 9-3 Aero Griffin Sport Sedan from the last generation, which rolled off the production line in Trollhättan in December 2011.