Saab Automobile AB, better known as Saab is a Swedish car manufacturer currently under receivership. It was formed in 1945 out of Saab AB, Svenska Aeroplan AB, a Swedish aerospace and defence company, when Saab AB started a project to design a small automobile. The Saab 92, Saab's first production model, was launched in 1949. The parent company merged with Scania-Vabis in 1968, and ten years later, in 1978, launched the Saab 900, Saab's best-selling and most iconic model. In 1989, the Saab car division of Saab-Scania was restructured into an independent company, Saab Automobile AB; General Motors (GM), with an investment of US$600 million, owned 50%. GM exercised their option to acquire the remaining Saab shares in 2000, spending US $125 million to turn the company into a wholly owned subsidiary. GM sold it to the Dutch automobile manufacturer Spyker Cars N.V. in 2010.


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