Since 1980, Scandanavia Asia Corporation (SAC) has been the Swedish brand's representation and continues to serve their customers' needs long after Saab signage was removed from global forecourts. SAC owns and operates six service centers across Taiwan that are solely dedicated to servicing Saabs, with a further 12 authorized workshops located elsewhere.
Even more amazing is that their newest location opened only last year. Although there are no new cars, sales continue through trade-ins of used models.
SAC is still running smoothly with the parts that are left from GM and other providers like AC Delco and Orio. In more difficult cases, SAC has even remanufactured their own components to keep cars in working order for customers.
"We have been doing our best to keep Saab alive on the road in Taiwan," says Salo Yang, president of SAC. "Offering service for Saabs is our responsibility because all Saab cars in Taiwan were sold by SAC. Keeping the brand alive is our duty."
What happened to Saab automaker?
Unlike the defence and security business, which steadily developed into a global player, the Saab passenger car story was a more prosaic one. After the company's 20-year merger with Scania-Vabis came to an end in 1989, American car giant General Motors took a 50 per cent share of the new Saab Automobile business before making the company a wholly-owned subsidiary in 2000.
Saab cars' future was therefore wrapped up with that of General Motors, and when the American parent company's own fortunes began to nosedive in 2008, so did its Swedish subsidiary. A change of ownership to include Dutch car maker Spyker could not halt the decline, and the Saab cars business was lost for good when Saab Automobile AB filed for bankruptcy in December 2011.
Source: Carscoops
