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To just-auto on Friday Brightwell also said that with some "minor adjustments" production could restart immediately in Trollhättan should Brightwell succeed in acquiring Saab.
This begs the question if Brightwell is just naive or totally ridiculous? First of all, GM has said that no buyer of Saab will be licensed technology to produce the Saab 9-5 or be supplied the Saab 9-4X.
"We are not in discussions with anyone regarding Saab and we will not license technology to any buyer," GM spokesman James Cain said to SvD.
At the very same time Brightwell claimed that it was in negotiations with GM.
In addition to this Brightwell now says that it can restart Saab immediately.
Jan Åke Jonsson and his team of experienced Saab managers and workers used months to restart Saab after Spyker acquired the company in February 2010. Saab wasn't up and running properly until summer 2010. Now Jonsson has retired, Gunnar Brunius, who was Vice President Purchasing & Manufacturing has started working at Volvo Aero. Even the man who replaced Brunius, Göran Ejbyfeldt, has left and will be head of quality and IT at Västra Götalandsregionen. I am sure many other key people have gotten new jobs as wel, so an immediate restart of Saab is impossible, and such a statement only shows us how inexperienced and naive Brightwell must be.
I am sorry to say this, but Brightwell Holdings sounds like another Spyker. Big words, big plans, no reality check