The Best of the Road event is now on. Run by Rand McNally with media partner USA Today, five groups of two are driving Saabs across the United States looking for the best small towns in America. The groups will tweet and blog their way across the country, collecting followers along the way. A winner will be chosen at the […]
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Best of the Road is an event being run by cartographers Rand McNally with the help of their official media partner, the newspaper USA Today. The event involves five teams driving various Saab vehicles to 30 destinations around the US. The destinations are broken into five categories, with 6 cities in each category, as follows: Most Beautiful – Baker City
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This event has been added to the events page. IntSaab is the annual International Saab Clubs meet, which is hosted in a different country each year. Although it mentions Saab Clubs in the official title, you do not need to be a member of a Saab Club to attend. IntSaab is open to all. Well, almost. IntSaab 2011 is fully
Back in January 2010 there were a lot of gatherings around the world held in support of Saab as the company was threatened with closure by General Motors. The website that I used to run, Saabs United, was a central gathering point for the exchange of information about those convoys and it was a tremendous success. I remember sitting at
UPDATE: The show is now finished. You can view a replay below or at Autoline’s site. You can also check the Inside Saab twitter feed to read the live coverage. —— Autoline is a motoring news service headed up by John McElroy out of Detroit, Michigan. Autoline After Hours is the Autoline equivalent to MTV Unplugged, with a more casual
Saab’s US chief Tim Colbeck appears on Autoline After Hours Read Post »
If you’re familiar with summertime in Trollhattan then you’ll already know what this story is all about. If not, then here’s another little snapshot of life in Trollywood. If you ever come to Trollhattan in the summertime, try to include a Wednesday night in your stay here. Why? I’m not sure exactly who organises it, but vintage and veteran vehicle
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Posted to the events page…… The Saab Car Museum in Trollhättan will host a special photo exhibition on the 2011 Mille Miglia from Saturday, May 28 until Monday, June 6. The exhibition will feature the two vehicles (still with Italian mud caked in the tire tread!) driven by Mats Fägerhag and Hans Hugenholtz, along with a slideshow of images taken
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One of the bigger Saab events on the North America calendar is the annual Carlisle Import and Kit Nationals. In Saab circles, it’s known as Saabs @ Carlisle and it was on again last weekend at the Carlisle Fairgrounds in Pennsylvania. Organisers of the Saab effort were hoping to top the magic 300 mark this year. They fell agonisingly close,
It’s always interesting to see what sort of Saab-related oddities are out there in the world. Last week it was the SaabViper making big waves on the internet – a Saab 9-3 SportCombi with a Dodge Viper engine. This week, it’s something quite different…… It seems this Jeep CJ5 is the latest Saab mashup to get noticed. The car appeared
We’ll have some material on the Mille Miglia from the inside perspective tomorrow. Today, though, I’d like to draw your attention to an absolutely brilliant collection of photos from the Mille Miglia, taken by some Saab fans in Italy. Saabnews.it is an Italian Saab fan site and it’s typical of why Saab enthusiasts are the best automotive enthusiasts in the
I got back from Australia in to Trollhattan on Saturday evening, just in time to take in Day 2 of the Saabs United Days event on the weekend. Saabs United Days was a gathering organised by the Saabs United website, aimed at giving a chance for readers of the website to get together, share some Saab experiences and attend various
