Polestar, the Swedish electric performance car brand, has announced its expansion into the former Saab car factory in Trollhattan, Sweden. The company has signed a lease for approximately 15,000 square meters of space in the newly acquired property called "Tekniska",...
Trollhättan City and Kraftstaden Properties' subsidiary, Propellern Fastighetsutveckling AB, have signed a letter of intent with NEVS to acquire a portion of the property known as Propellern 8, also known as Tekniska. At the same time, Trollhättan City has also...
Nevs, the Chinese-owned company that acquired the bankrupt Saab factory in Trollhattan, Sweden, has been in crisis, leading to the recent layoff of almost all of its employees. The future of the 483,000-square-meter factory has been uncertain, with Nevs initially...
Among the winners of this year's Ig Nobel Prizes was the project, that is, the master's thesis of the Swedish engineer Magnus Gens, in which the company Saab participated, which donated two Saab 9-5 cars. We wrote about this project...
To understand how the very Swedish Saab got involved in the Type 4 project which will give birth to 4 large sedans that will have marked the 80s (Lancia Thema, Fiat Croma, Alfa Romeo 164 and Saab 9000), you have...
The Saab 9000 Cabrio was considered for production in 1989, one prototype was made by the Finnish company Valmet Automotive, but Saab eventually decided not to make the car a production model after all. Also, Valmet made the Opel Calibra...
New cars will be smashed if they collide with moose at high speeds, a new report shows. Saab and Volvo still do best. If the speed is higher than 80 km/h, modern cars have difficulty coping with a moose collision,...
Wartburg, Dixi, BMW, EMW, Wartburg and soon then Opel. It is the short version of the story of the car factory in East German Eisenach, where the first car was built as early as the end of the 19th century....
Volvo and Saab are not the only Swedish cars that have rolled on swedish roads. As early as 1897, Gustaf Erikson designed Sweden's first car with an internal combustion engine. Since then, at least 150 different car models have rolled...
Nils Bohlin, who passed away in 2002, was the flight engineer who switched from Saab to Volvo and invented the three-point belt. It is his invention that underlies the world company Autoliv, which wants part of the honor for the...
