Recaro

. The now less successful company was sold off in 1975 to Sperry UNIVAC, while flight computer development was kept in Saab. Recaro seats are also used in the Leopard 2 MBT. The aircraft computer (CK37) was achieved in 1971 in the Viggen. Meanwhile, Recaro seats were seeing applications in a variaty of cars from the Aston Martin V03 to the Audi S series and RS Series, to the Beetle RSI, as well as the addition of the side Airbag seat to the Recaro Product line. banking). Their operations went world wide as they established Recaro North America, Recaro UK, Recaro South East Asia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Recaro France in Mont Saint Algnan. During the 1960s several successful and advanced systems were developed and sold to several European countries (used in e.g.

The 1990s was a period of great change for Recaro. The Datasaab company was a result partly of the need of heavy computational power for the aircraft development, partly of the science-fictional idea to make a computer that would be small enough to mount in an aeroplane as navigational equipment. In 1983, Keiper purchases all shares in Recaro and establishes Keiper Recaro GmbH & Co. Saab Bofors Dynamics develops military applications such as RBS15, Carl-Gustaf, AT4, IRIS-T and METEOR. In 1969, The Ruetters family sells their ownership of Recaro to three companies, Keiper, Huber & Wagner, and Metzeler after facing economic problems. Saab Ericsson Space is a joint venture with Ericsson, designing the on board computers used in the Ariane 5 rockets used by the European Space Agency. The company begins producing both production seats for Porsche and a seperate line of seats for re-fits into any car. Saab Military Aircraft is responsible for the overall 'aircraft system' including basic aircraft development and production, and testing and delivery.

In 1963 Porsche takes over management of the entire company and renames it Recaro GmbH & Co, changing the company focus to producing top quality seats for Porsche vehicles, and the company ceases producing Vehicle Bodies entirely. BAE designed an improved wing, which they then manufactured and are set to produce 45% of currently planned export airframes. New car manufacturing methods reduce the size of the car body market in the 1950s, and Reutter finds itself on hard times. This co-operation was extended in 2001 with the formation of Gripen International for the same purpose. In 1930 they started producing bodies for the Volkswagen Beetle, and in 1949 had a huge break though when Porsche started using their bodies for their sports cars. In 1995 Saab Military Aircraft and British Aerospace (now BAE Systems) formed the joint venture company Saab-BAe Gripen AB, with the goal of adapting, manufacturing, marketing and supporting Gripen internationally. Founded in 1906 as a car body producer, the company (named Reutter at the time for it's founder Wilhelm Reutter) made a name for itself producing Limousine bodies in the 1920s. The development and the manufacturing of these aeroplanes has all been made in Linköping, Sweden.

. Both were mid-range, turboprop powered, passenger planes. Recaro is a German company based in Stuttgart, well known for their bucket seats and commonly contracted to produce upgraded racing style seats for all the sporty cars built by the Volkswagen Group as well as many other manufacturers. The last civilian models made by Saab were the Saab 340 and Saab 2000. "Recaro Company History Timeline". Saab has been making airplanes since the 1930s, and predecessors to the Gripen were among others the Lansen, the Draken and the Viggen. Currently, the main focus of the aircraft production is fighter aircraft, with the recent JAS 39 Gripen as the flagship model.

Investor AB also maintains a 20% share. From January 2005 BAE reduced its shareholding to 20%, which it views as a long term interest. Since 1998 BAE Systems has been the largest shareholder in Saab following its acquisition of a 35% stake from Investor AB by its predecessor, British Aerospace. .

Saab Automobile has not generated a profit since the complete GM takeover. General Motors bought 51 percent of the automobile division Saab Automobile in 1990, and acquired the rest a decade later. In 1969 Saab merged with the truck maker Scania-Vabis, and between 1969 and 1995 the company was called Saab-Scania AB. In the late 1950s SAAB then ventured into the computer market with Datasaab.

The first car was the Saab 92001 on June 10, 1947. Originally manufacturing aeroplanes, the company sought ways in which to diversify its business and in the late 1940s started to manufacture Saab Automobile, based in the city Trollhättan. Its name is an acronym for "Svenska Aeroplan AB," where "AB" stands for "aktiebolaget" ("limited company"). Saab is an aircraft and automobile concern based in Sweden, founded 1937 in Linköping.

Saab 2000. Saab 340. Saab 105. Saab 91 Safir.

Saab 90 Scandia. Saab 39 Gripen. Saab 37 Viggen. Saab 35 Draken.

Saab 32 Lansen. Saab 29 Tunnan. Saab 21R (jet). Saab 21 (push-prop).

Saab 18 (bomber). Saab 17 (bomber).