Saab Closes the Factory Chapter: Final Cars Find New Owners
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Seven of the last Saab and NEVS cars left at the Trollhättan factory have gone under the hammer at Klaravik, fetching over one million Swedish kronor combined.
Sweden has seen the symbolic sell-off of the last Saab cars still kept on the factory site in Trollhättan. Following the Klaravik auction, seven vehicles went under the hammer — three Saabs and four NEVS. The combined total topped one million Swedish kronor, roughly €95,000.
These cars matter less as transport and more as a piece of the brand’s history. Saab Automobile went bankrupt back in 2011, after which the assets passed to National Electric Vehicle Sweden. NEVS tried to keep the 9-3 alive and to develop electric projects, but a full revival of the brand never happened. Now the last vehicles stored at the plant have left Trollhättan and gone on to private owners.
The final trio of Saabs are 9-3 Aero cars from the 2014 model year with low chassis numbers — among the very last mass-produced Saabs ever built. They sold for 142,000, 159,000 and 177,000 kronor. Alongside them, the auction featured electric and experimental NEVS prototypes: a 9-3 EV built in China but engineered in Trollhättan, an autonomous test car fitted with lidar and cameras, an experimental all-wheel-drive vehicle with in-wheel motors, and an electric car with a range extender.
The strongest result came from a working NEVS 9-3 EV from 2018, which sold for 252,000 kronor. The petrol-powered Saab 9-3s with factory history also drew serious interest and saw active bidding right down to the wire.
The auction marked the final chapter for the plant where Saabs were built for decades. Klaravik called the sale a historic event: more than 75 years have passed since the first mass-produced Saab rolled out of Trollhättan, and now the last factory cars are heading to new owners.
