Despite GM's strategic decisions to abandon Saab, the historic Swedish company managed to survive and now move into a new phase of its history, under the ownership of the Dutch company Spyker Cars NV. Described by Pavlos Efthymiou.

Saab Automobile AB is known to the general public today as a Swedish car manufacturer that belonged to the General Motors group until recently. But the history of the company begins long before its acquisition, the 1990, from GM, with the construction of aircraft for the Swedish Air Force the 1937. With the end of World War II, Saab began to expand into the automotive field and the 1944 started building its first passenger car, the two-year Project 92, which was presented the 1949 as a Saab 92. The 1955, the car was boosted, improved and renamed Saab 93, with the company's then-new model bringing (and to establish) the trapezoidal mask known to this day.

However, it was the need for a larger model that led to the creation of Saab 99. Its distinctive design 99, the work of Saab's only designer until then, by Sixten Sason, sealed the future external features of the Swedish company, from Saab 900 until relatively recently 9-3 of the previous generation. But it wasn't just the design that led to success and contributed to the creation of a loyal and passionate customer base around the world. It was the continuous orientation towards innovation, which makes Saab's contribution to motoring far more important than its small size

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