diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3dc7f3c2f..fbf894e08 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ New in spot 1.99b (not yet released)
       ignore translator returning non-zero exist status instead of
       returning an error.
 
+    - ltlcross has a new option --automata to save the produced
+      automata into the CSV or JSON file.  Those automata are saved
+      into the HOA format.
+
     - "ltlfilt --stutter-invariant" will now work with PSL formulas.
       The implementation is actually much more efficient
       than our previous implementation that was only for LTL.
diff --git a/src/bin/ltlcross.cc b/src/bin/ltlcross.cc
index fb3ee6047..69cb3abb0 100644
--- a/src/bin/ltlcross.cc
+++ b/src/bin/ltlcross.cc
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 #include "ltlvisit/relabel.hh"
 #include "ltlvisit/lbt.hh"
 #include "twaalgos/lbtt.hh"
+#include "twaalgos/hoa.hh"
 #include "twaalgos/product.hh"
 #include "twaalgos/remfin.hh"
 #include "twaalgos/gtec/gtec.hh"
@@ -78,7 +79,8 @@ Exit status:\n\
 ";
 
 enum {
-  OPT_BOGUS = 256,
+  OPT_AUTOMATA = 256,
+  OPT_BOGUS,
   OPT_COLOR,
   OPT_CSV,
   OPT_DENSITY,
@@ -135,6 +137,8 @@ static const argp_option options[] =
       "not output)", 0 },
     { "omit-missing", OPT_OMIT, 0, 0,
       "do not output statistics for timeouts or failed translations", 0 },
+    { "automata", OPT_AUTOMATA, 0, 0,
+      "store automata (in the HOA format) into the CSV or JSON output", 0 },
     /**************************************************/
     { 0, 0, 0, 0, "Miscellaneous options:", -2 },
     { "color", OPT_COLOR, "WHEN", OPTION_ARG_OPTIONAL,
@@ -203,6 +207,7 @@ static output_file* grind_output = 0;
 static bool verbose = false;
 static bool ignore_exec_fail = false;
 static unsigned ignored_exec_fail = 0;
+static bool opt_automata = false;
 
 static bool global_error_flag = false;
 
@@ -295,6 +300,7 @@ struct statistics
   std::vector<double> product_transitions;
   std::vector<double> product_scc;
   bool ambiguous;
+  std::string hoa_str;
 
   static void
   fields(std::ostream& os, bool show_exit, bool show_sr)
@@ -323,10 +329,13 @@ struct statistics
     size_t m = products_avg ? 1U : products;
     for (size_t i = 0; i < m; ++i)
       os << ",\"product_states\",\"product_transitions\",\"product_scc\"";
+    if (opt_automata)
+      os << ",\"automaton\"";
   }
 
   void
-  to_csv(std::ostream& os, bool show_exit, bool show_sr, const char* na = "")
+  to_csv(std::ostream& os, bool show_exit, bool show_sr, const char* na = "",
+	 bool csv_escape = true)
   {
     if (show_exit)
       os << '"' << status_str << "\"," << status_code << ',';
@@ -390,6 +399,16 @@ struct statistics
 	for (size_t i = 0; i < m; ++i)
 	  os << ',' << na;
       }
+    if (opt_automata)
+      {
+	os << ',';
+	if (hoa_str.empty())
+	  os << na;
+	else if (csv_escape)
+	  spot::escape_rfc4180(os << '"', hoa_str) << '"';
+	else
+	  spot::escape_str(os << '"', hoa_str) << '"';
+      }
   }
 };
 
@@ -407,6 +426,9 @@ parse_opt(int key, char* arg, struct argp_state*)
     case ARGP_KEY_ARG:
       translators.push_back(arg);
       break;
+    case OPT_AUTOMATA:
+      opt_automata = true;
+      break;
     case OPT_BOGUS:
       {
 	bogus_output = new output_file(arg);
@@ -693,6 +715,13 @@ namespace
 	      else
 		st->terminal_aut = true;
 	      st->ambiguous = !spot::is_unambiguous(res);
+
+	      if (opt_automata)
+		{
+		  std::ostringstream os;
+		  spot::hoa_reachable(os, res, "l");
+		  st->hoa_str = os.str();
+		}
 	    }
 	}
       output.cleanup();
@@ -1397,7 +1426,7 @@ print_stats_json(const char* filename)
 	    out << ',';
 	  notfirst = true;
 	  out << "\n    [ " << r << ',' << t << ',';
-	  vstats[r][t].to_csv(out, !opt_omit, has_sr, "null");
+	  vstats[r][t].to_csv(out, !opt_omit, has_sr, "null", false);
 	  out << " ]";
 	}
   out << "\n  ]\n}\n";
diff --git a/src/tests/ltlcross3.test b/src/tests/ltlcross3.test
index 4a92fa61b..3dc9e9090 100755
--- a/src/tests/ltlcross3.test
+++ b/src/tests/ltlcross3.test
@@ -80,14 +80,15 @@ test `grep 'warning:.*timeout' stderr | wc -l` -eq 2
 test `wc -l < out.csv` -eq 1
 check_csv out.csv
 
-# Check with --products=5
+# Check with --products=5 --automata
 run 1 ../../bin/ltlcross "$ltl2tgba -s %f >%N" 'false %f >%N' \
-      -f a --csv=out.csv --products=5 2>stderr
+      -f a --csv=out.csv --products=5 --automata 2>stderr
 p=`sed 's/[^,]//g;q' out.csv | wc -c`
 grep '"exit_status"' out.csv
 grep '"exit_code"' out.csv
 test `grep 'error:.*returned exit code 1' stderr | wc -l` -eq 2
 test `grep '"exit code",1' out.csv | wc -l` -eq 2
+test `grep '"HOA:.*--BODY--.*--END--"' out.csv | wc -l` -eq 2
 check_csv out.csv
 
 # ... unless --omit-missing is supplied.
@@ -102,12 +103,13 @@ check_csv out.csv
 
 # Check with --products=+5
 run 1 ../../bin/ltlcross "$ltl2tgba -s %f >%N" 'false %f >%N' \
-      -f a --csv=out.csv --products=+5 2>stderr
+      -f a --csv=out.csv --products=+5 --automata 2>stderr
 q=`sed 's/[^,]//g;q' out.csv | wc -c`
 grep '"exit_status"' out.csv
 grep '"exit_code"' out.csv
 test `grep 'error:.*returned exit code 1' stderr | wc -l` -eq 2
 test `grep '"exit code",1' out.csv | wc -l` -eq 2
+test `grep '"HOA:.*--BODY--.*--END--"' out.csv | wc -l` -eq 2
 check_csv out.csv
 
 # ... unless --omit-missing is supplied.
@@ -128,7 +130,7 @@ echo "$first" > bug.txt
 run 1 ../../bin/ltlcross "$ltl2tgba -s %f >%N" 'false %f >%D' \
       -f 'X  a' --csv=out.csv --save-bogus='>>bug.txt' 2>stderr
 q=`sed 's/[^,]//g;q' out.csv | wc -c`
-test $q -eq `expr $p + 6`
+test $q -eq `expr $p + 5`
 grep '"exit_status"' out.csv
 grep '"exit_code"' out.csv
 test `grep 'error:.*returned exit code 1' stderr | wc -l` -eq 2