With German labor laws and board representation, will this favor
Trahatten getting the ax? GM could learn a thing or two from SAAB but
it seems intent on killing SAAB.

Dan

On 10/28/2004 12:57 PM, Per Laursen wrote:
I meant Trollhatten, Sweden.

Dan

You mean Trollhättan.

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We'll get there ... I see Trollh?ttan.

Yup I know wrong character set :-(

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On 10/29/2004 4:26 PM, Charles Christacopoulos wrote:

Great to know this is alt.languages.swedish.spelling. Now does anyone
think GM is setting up the Swedish plant for the shaft even recent news
is about German cuts?

Dan

Dan wrote:


I read an article a few months ago that said all Saab engineers,
designers and similar workers were being cut. This amounted to about
1300 people. The real sad news is that this is really the death of Saab.
It was controversial, but I actually liked the 900 that came out in
1994, though I haven't owned one. I like the GM-based Saabs. But now,
Saabs will not have any design input from the people who made Saab what
it is.

You might be able to find the article I'm speaking of with a web search.

Tom
Noo Joizy

Tom Reingold wrote:
cut. Your source seems somewhat unreliable and there will still be Saab
engineers around (although they need to work more and more with common
GM technology).

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On 11/1/2004 12:15 PM, Tom Reingold wrote:
I read that article as well. I am wondering of the likely-hood the
Swedish assembly plant will be closed.

Dan

On 11/1/2004 12:37 PM, th wrote:

A recent wsj article quoted GM "head honcho" Lutz that the current 9-3
is an example of platform sharing gone bad. I recall the radio and main
"wiring" being examples of SAAB going its own way. While I wish XM
would have been available in 2004 model, I certainly wouldn't want the
Malibu radio. The SAAB 9-3 2004 ergonomics have grown on me (my first
SAAB; sadly probably my last).

Does anyone know if GM uses Activity Based Costing to make investment
decisions? If not, I wonder how GM is doing the costing for SAAB to
determine its profitability.

Dan

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The article isn't correct. Saab will lay of 540 people just after new years.
It'll almost all be "office-people" - not production.

Also, wjen Opel in Germany is going to fyre 10,000 workers, Opel's
production-capacity will so much reduced, that they have got get some of the
models produced elsewhere.

Cheers!