More kroner, Sven

The Swedes aren't just sitting around the sauna beating each other with birch leaves and herring and complaining about it. Saab has big plans. The GM subsidiary put a pile of cash into a new assembly plant in Trollhattan that will see both the 9-3 and 9-5 going down the same line-- which Saab says should make for a 20 percent improvement in productivity. Future allwheel-drive options and a 9-3 crossover SUV are due within the next three years and will also share that assembly line.