Three Former Saab Execs Jailed for Accounting Fraud Charges

Saab, in its current form, is taking a break from making cars, but they should at some point start building an electric vehicle, or at least that was the announced plan when the company was taken over, a while back. However, other interconnected stories have been cropping up ever since, and the name Saab has been in the news quite a lot, despite the fact that the company is for all intents and purposes, dead.

This time we bring you a story about three unnamed, former company executives who were recently put behind bars for accounting fraud. According to The Detroit News, they are “suspected of aggravated attempts to avoid tax controls” – fixing Saab’s accounts in 2010 and 2011, while the company was under the control of Spyker. In Sweden, this brings about a four-year prison sentence.

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Gone are the Days of Gone in 60 Seconds…This is Nicolas Cage’s Ad for China's BAIC

Nicolas Cage is a talented actor who just needs certain types of characters to shine. However, his latest role has him driving BAIC’s new Saab 9-5-based Senova D-series sedan for an ad that promotes the car for the local Chinese market. They are selling you a vehicle that can defy physics repeatedly, and drive backwards almost as quickly as it can forward, even when it has an Asian grandmother at the wheel. Read more »

Year of the Saab: China's BAIC Motors Launches 9-5-Based Senova D Sedan

The car you see pictured here is the Senova D sedan from China's Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co. or simply BAIC, and under its body shell, elements of which will likely remind you of several other cars, is the platform and engine technology from the previous generation Saab 9-5, the rights for which the company acquired from General Motors in 2009.

It is the production version of last year's C70G and it was formally introduced to the world at last month's Shanghai Auto Show. The reason why we're talking about it now is that BAIC announced on Monday that the Senova D went on sale in China and Hong Kong (which is a special administrative region of China).

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Saab Test Cars Up for Sale in Online Auction in Sweden

Saab enthusiasts, this one is for you. Sweden's KVD Kvarndammen auction house is organizing an online sale of Saab cars that belonged to the now defunct automaker.

In total, 78 cars will be auctioned off, roughly half of which are impossible to register since they were used by Saab as test vehicles. Most of these test cars belong to the latest 9-5 series, but there’s also a 9-3 Aero sedan and five GM-built 9-4X crossovers.

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