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Dutch luxury carmaker Spyker opens talks with GM to buy Saab
A second small luxury car maker, Spyker of the Netherlands, is talking to General Motors it emerged yesterday about buying Saab Automobile, weeks after Sweden’s Koenigsegg dropped its bid.
A spokesman for Spyker, which made 43 cars last year that sell for €200,000 (£181,000) and upwards, said the Dutch carmaker was interested in Sweden’s Saab and was talking to General Motors but declined to say whether it had already submitted a bid for the marque.
Last month, Koenigsegg, which makes sports cars valued at $1m, pulled out of a deal backed by China’s Beijing Automotive Industrial Holding to buy Saab, putting in doubt the future of the 60-year-old mass-market automaker, which is known for its well engineered cars.