{"id":109128,"date":"2009-12-28T17:45:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T22:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=47724"},"modified":"2009-12-28T17:45:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T22:45:39","slug":"rumor-gm-planning-to-rebadge-saab-9-5-as-a-buick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/109128","title":{"rendered":"Rumor: GM planning to rebadge Saab 9-5 as a Buick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47725 aligncenter\" title=\"2010 Saab 9-5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/2010_saab_9_5_images_front_a.jpg\" alt=\"2010 Saab 9-5\" width=\"563\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/2009\/12\/20\/breaking-spyker-renews-bid-for-saab-gm-says-it-has-inquires-from-several-parties\/\">General Motors gets ready to sell or wind down Saab<\/a>, the automaker is rumored to be planning on saving the 9-5 sedan as a rebadged Buick. According to a report by <em>Dagens<\/em>, GM is seeing positive opportunities to closing Saab including selling Beijing Automotive Industry Holdings Co. Ltd (BAIC) of certain Saab 9-3, current 9-5 and powertrain technology and tooling.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you should take this report with a grain of salt since Buick already has a successful mid-size sedan &#8211; the 2010 LaCrosse.<\/p>\n<p>Sources are also saying that GM may export some of Saab&#8217;s technology for a new premium Opel vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2010 Saab 9-5<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/2010_saab_9_5_press_011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2010 Saab 9-5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/2010_saab_9_5_press_011-128x84.jpg\" alt=\"2010 Saab 9-5\" width=\"128\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/2010_saab_9_5_press_012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2010 Saab 9-5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/2010_saab_9_5_press_012-128x84.jpg\" alt=\"2010 Saab 9-5\" width=\"128\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/2010_saab_9_5_images_004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47726\" title=\"2010 Saab 9-5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/2010_saab_9_5_images_004-128x84.jpg\" alt=\"2010 Saab 9-5\" width=\"128\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/2010_saab_9_5_press_007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2010 Saab 9-5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/2010_saab_9_5_press_007-128x84.jpg\" alt=\"2010 Saab 9-5\" width=\"128\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-47724\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"563\" height=\"422\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"offsite=true&amp;lang=en-us&amp;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fegmcartech%2Fsets%2F72157622158750444%2Fshow%2F&amp;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fegmcartech%2Fsets%2F72157622158750444%2F&amp;set_id=72157622158750444&amp;jump_to=\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=71649\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"563\" height=\"422\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=71649\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"offsite=true&amp;lang=en-us&amp;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fegmcartech%2Fsets%2F72157622158750444%2Fshow%2F&amp;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fegmcartech%2Fsets%2F72157622158750444%2F&amp;set_id=72157622158750444&amp;jump_to=\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; By: Omar Rana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dn.se\/ekonomi\/gm-anvander-9-5an-i-framtida-buick-1.1019824\">Dagens<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saabsunited.com\/2009\/12\/gm-up-to-their-old-tricks---plan-possible-re-badge-of-saab-9-5.html\">Saabs United<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/carscoop.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/bs-of-day-gm-planning-to-rebadge-2010.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Carscoop+%28CARSCOOP%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">CarScoop<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/WyqA0juw95dTabkLIHJpKHAJ-T8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/WyqA0juw95dTabkLIHJpKHAJ-T8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/WyqA0juw95dTabkLIHJpKHAJ-T8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/WyqA0juw95dTabkLIHJpKHAJ-T8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=INHXPVUhx-E:wZPW_dLa7cU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=INHXPVUhx-E:wZPW_dLa7cU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=INHXPVUhx-E:wZPW_dLa7cU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=INHXPVUhx-E:wZPW_dLa7cU:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=INHXPVUhx-E:wZPW_dLa7cU:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=INHXPVUhx-E:wZPW_dLa7cU:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=INHXPVUhx-E:wZPW_dLa7cU:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As General Motors gets ready to sell or wind down Saab, the automaker is rumored to be planning on saving the 9-5 sedan as a rebadged Buick. According to a report by Dagens, GM is seeing positive opportunities to closing Saab including selling Beijing Automotive Industry Holdings Co. Ltd (BAIC) of certain Saab 9-3, current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}