Garry Small Saab is located in Portland, Oregon. Most passersby on 82nd Avenue won’t register Garry Small Saab at all as they motor along the busy street. But for any car aficionado, the lineup of Saabs and active sales advertisements generates inevitable confusion and intrigue.
They are a family owned and operated that have been in business since 1986. Believe you or not, and even today, they have full Saab Sales, Service and Parts departments with a very knowledgeable staff to assist theri clients.
Yes, Portland still has a Saab dealership. There’s official signage, it’s clearly still in business, and the calendar shows 2018, seven years since the beloved, oddball Swedish brand “born from jets” sucked in its final turbocharged breath.
At Garry Small Saab they specialize in Saab, so their team know the product well. They all have a passion for Saab. In fact, they like the product so well that most of their employees drive Saabs… some even own more than one.
These brilliant Saab story from America brings us a Hagerty web magazine in the text titled “Of course Portland still has a Saab dealership“. Also interesting, their web domain is named “Saab story” – saabstory.com
This is awesome! I didn’t know…..
Artice from 2018
still open check google
Whow . Wouldn’t you love to stumble on a new one in 2020.
Visited a few weeks ago when I picked up my first c900 in Lebanon, OR. that deslership is the real deal. Saab heaven. Cool memorabilia inside
So happy to see this! Wish Gary Small a long long lasting healthy and happy SAAB dealer service!
Can I get parts if needed
Yep , apparently it’s still there but its not a dealership in the true sense of the word. Parts and good used Saab’s mainly and a lot of good advice.
well that’s still good.
I wish I lived closer.
Honestly… Their cars and parts are quite overpriced… For me at least, I have a lovely Saab mechanic in Seattle and a dealer in Bellevue that I can buy parts in for much more reasonable prices compared to Gary Small.
Ivan Wilson of Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland still has the Saab signage on a showroom and the Saab totem at the front of it’s premises. Behind one of it’s now repurposed buildings there is a collection of parked Saab 9-3’s and 9-5’s.
Can’t find a dealership in Mississippi
I was in the motor industry for 42 years and when I retired from GM some years back I bought my company car. A 2007 Saab 9.3 2.8 Aero. Still driving it, and it is in pristine condition. How Saab was allowed to go under is a mystery. One of the best cars ever produced.
how Saab was allowed to go under is a mystery” ????? GM got involved that’s how! Saab had plenty of companies that wanted to buy from GM, but they just took it as a loss!
To John Sadler
because was only using the body, and was re-engineering the GM parts. They were found out when an executive visited the plant to find out why it was costing more to makes these (car was based on a vauxhall/opel vectra). The first clue was the radio. It wasn’t a GM one.
I’ve had both a saab 93 and a vectra (both with the 1.9 diesel)… the saab is a much better car.
To John Sadler
Bad management. They didn’t advertise their cars enough – plus they had too many in the range. They were and still are a great car. I’ve had 2 over the past 22 years. Can’t imagine having anything else. 🙂
To Troy Williams
Yes, Mahindra & Dongfeng for example. But GM did not want to sell to somebody that could get Saab going! They knew that eg Spyker had No money to run it for a longer time. 🥲
To Troy Williams
well if you go back to the 80s they struggled a lot before GM bought first shares. Saabs are great, but for many years they could not handle price vs. cost. Maybe this is why there are so great and this is why GM did not like them (especially since GN weas hit so hard by the crisis in late 2000s)
Have in mind that there were some shady people and Swedish gouvernment involved in the deal in early 2010s that extended the negotiations. All in all it got sold to a brand that was never involved in the car industry and was meant to pull all the knowhow to China. The problem was that Volvo has alread been sold and fed China with the know-how they were looking for. That plus the fact GM did not want to give their intelectual property of the latest designs made Saab unattracive. They did make ugly versions of 9-3 in China (not in Sweden) for quite a few years. But the parent company struggled a lot and finally failed. Scania and Saab Defence predicted that selling the rights to Chinese company is not the right move and withdraw the rights to the logo and the name. Probably the only way to save Saab was to make it national sweedish brand. But probably not really profitable for many years.