I am neither an American nor Canadian, but despite that I was too late to watch this thread, I think
Saab would have financially and mechanically merged with the
Hyundai Motor Group if only the latter would turn the former [Saab] into its luxury brand instead of establishing the generically-named
Genesis label.
As a result of that, the Hyundai Motor Group would gain benefit from Saab's safety tech, whereas the latter [Saab] would gain benefit from Hyundai's engineering - then the underpinnings might end up being sourced from Renault's cars instead of either Hyundai-Kia or GM.
In particular, both Hyundai and Kia would also licence Renault's body platforms/underpinnings, but this would rather refuse the Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) to release the
[Hyundai] Genesis in production - as the Genesis is/was a front-engine, rear-wheel drive (FR) layout car while the majority of Renault and Saab vehicles are front-engine, front-wheel drive (FF). So therefore both car manufacturers, Hyundai-Kia and Saab, would keep its cars FF as their kind of policy.
And also, that would benefit Saab from access to the
Indian market, where Hyundai has a deeply robust market share there, but also this would benefit Hyundai from access to the European market by emulating Nissan's role on establishing a foothold in Europe by building a million-pound manufacturing plant somewhere in England...
