We take this opportunity to wish the best to the three Saab entrants in the 2011 Mille Miglia historic rally in Italy: Mats Fägerhag, Saab Automobile’s Vice President Vehicle Product Development, with Peter Bäckström, Director of the Saab Museum Hans Hugenholtz, Chairman of Saab Automobile owner Spyker Cars N.V., and his wife Laurence. Jacques Beherman, importer of Saab cars into […]
Saab are hosting automotive journalists from around the world this week, for a test drive of the all new Saab 9-4x. I brought you a few images from the first day of the event, yesterday. Today, we’ll take a look at how things are going, as well as giving you a peek behind the curtain as to what actually goes
An update from the Saab 9-4x test drive in Washington DC Read Post »
There will be three Saab 93A’s running in this year’s Mille Miglia. One of the cars has been restored in Belgium and will be driven by senior staff from Saab’s Belgian importer, Behermans. The other two belong to Saab. The first one is the yellow car that was driven by Spyker Cars Chairman, Victor Muller, and his son in last
The Saab 9-4x did its first round of press testing for long-lead press back in March. That event was pretty quiet at the time and the resulting road tests only just came out last week. Today was Day 1 of a week long press event for short-lead journalists and I guess you could say it’s a ‘bigger’ event for the
Saab Automobile team commemorates 1957 Mille Miglia class win Driver line-up includes Saab Automobile’s Vice President of Vehicle Product Development and Spyker Cars’ Chairman of the Board Trollhättan, Sweden. A trio of historic Saab 93s will take part in this year’s Mille Miglia, starting Thursday 12 May, revisiting the scene of one of Saab’s first successes in international motor sport.
Mille Miglia Revisited: Classic Saabs Pay Homage to Historic Success Read Post »
Trollhättan, Sweden: Saab Cars North America today announced the appointment of a new president and chief operating officer, Mr. Timothy Colbeck. The announcement comes as Saab is embarked on its biggest-ever product offensive with four all-new products since 2010 – the all-new Saab 9-5 Sedan, Saab’s first crossover, the 9-4X, the 9-5 SportCombi and the 9-3 Griffin range. Effective Monday,
Press: Saab Cars North America Appoints New President and Chief Operating Officer Read Post »
Our Saab 9-3x poll is over and done, with over 1,100 votes received – thankyou!! The poll numbers turned out as follows: Arctic White – 281 votes Oak Brown Metallic – 196 votes Laser Red – 179 votes Jet Black Metallic – 169 votes Carbon Grey Metallic – 119 votes Glacier Silver Metallic – 102 votes Diamond Silver Metallic –
Poll follow-up: What’s your favourite color Saab 9-3x? Read Post »
Inside Saab launched a few weeks ago and whilst we’ve still got a fair bit of work to do with the site’s layout and design (we’re aware of some of the issues with images, polls, etc and we’re working on them), we’re pretty happy with the type of content we’ve been able to provide so far. The purpose of the
2011 sees the 25th anniversary of the iconic Saab Convertible. Following are some numbers that relate to the Saab Converible and might be of some interest to the many Saab Convertible fans out there. 25 years of Saab Convertible production: First generation (1986 – 1993) – 48,894 units Second generation (1994 –2002) – 149,145 units Third generation (2003 onwards*) –
THere are a number of Saab enthusiast events coming up to start the northern spring/summer Saabing season. Here are some details on a couple that you may want to attend if they’re in your neck of the woods. Swedish Day UK (late addition) When: 8th May (tomorrow, as I site here writing this) Where: Haynes International Motor Museum, Sparkford It’s
25th anniversary of launch of Saab Convertible Driving force behind growth of convertible segment Established open-top car as practical, all-year-round transportation It all began in 1986, when the first car in a production run of just 400 Saab 900 Convertibles for the US market was delivered. Now, three generations later, almost 300,000 Saab Convertibles have been sold around the world
Saab’s Iconic Convertible: 25 years of Raising the Roof Read Post »
