My dad bought a Saab 99GL back in '77. I grew up in that car and it lasted untill 2003. A sad day when we finally had to send it away. But it did close to 500.000km on one engine, gearbox and drivetrain without any major repairs. And it would always start, even when the temperature dropped below -30C, a lot of more modern cars don't do that
GM blocked a sale of SAAB assets to a chinese company because they didn't want to compete with technology they transferred to SAAB, in the China market.