Well, let me piss in the casket.


A Hyundai Sonata has a double wishbone front suspension.
Every current Saab uses cheaper, worse handling struts.


The cheapest Subaru (outside JDM) has a longitudinal engine.
Every current Saab uses a cheaper, worse handling  transverse engine (the old real Saabs had longitudinal engines, but still failed to have AWD like Audi and Subaru).


And those Hyundais and Subarus are just as safe (check IIHS, not your up your anti-Asian butt), with dramatically better quality.


The world does not need overpriced, questionable reliablity FWD cars, and now there is one less company that will be tricking misguided enthusiasts into buying them.


And, no, I don t drive a Camry.  And I don t drive a rebadged outdated GM either.


I feel bad for the Saab employees, they are people.  I don t feel bad for the company brand, its not a living thing.  It should have died 20 years ago when the idiots running it thought they could charge RWD/AWD money for Saab s overrated FWD cars.  Instead Saab has been tortured on life support by GM since it failed as an independent company, but now it can finally rest in peace.


I don t care about brands, I care about car designs.  There are hundreds of FWD, transverse engine cars available for sale in the US.  That is by far the most common car platform design.  The FWD transverse engined cars sold as Saabs won t be missed. 


Saab hasn t failed because it is quirky, it s failed because it isn t, it makes the same transverse engine FWD cars as everyone else, it just charges more money for them and they have less quality.


Now, if RWD and manual transmissions go away, then I ll have to mourn.