On Death and Dying: Saab Won’t Return in 2013, Nor Will Maybach

We took it stoically when Hummer, Mercury, Oldsmobile, Plymouth, Pontiac, and Saturn toppled over like a row of dominoes, and then when Maybach more recently took a draft of hemlock and expired. But the one departed marque that car people are still shedding genuine tears for is Saab. Crocodile tears will suffice for Maybach. A few rap moguls notwithstanding, nobody much lamented the demise of this curious misstep by Daimler AG. With the Maybach, that iconic brand missed a fish-in-a-barrel opportunity to cash in on the proliferating worldwide demand for low-volume, high-prestige egomobiles priced into the stratocumulus. Read full story » from Car and Driver Blog http://blog.caranddriver.com

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