[hr] I got a bunch of messages from people last week, letting me know that my old 1985 Saab 900 16V Turbo had come on the market again. Was I tempted? Well, it’d be nice but I have zero space and zero funds at the moment. And a few projects on the horizon. If it was Bill and my old […]
As I sit here starting to write this post, Saab sales are due to begin online in around 23 minutes (at 2pm Swedish time). For those who don’t know, NEVS are beginning their sales program in Sweden with an online-only sales model. I’m genuinely interested in whether or not you’ve gone onto the website and ordered one. It’d be nice
As promised, my 2 cents on a discussion that emerged at Saabs United about whether NEVS should have an ‘Inside Saab’ type blogger and what effect that might have on external Saab websites. I’m on the record stating that NEVS should have an Inside Saab type website. I think the initial concept for Inside Saab as devised by the marketing
I’ve got a family wedding going on this weekend so I’ll be off-air for a little while. When I come back, I think I’ll write about the topic of “inside vs outside Saab blogging”. It’s based around a discussion in comments from Saabs United. You can read the comments thread here. The reasons I’ll write about it are as follows:
I’ve had this plan in my head for a while. In fact, when NEVS first took over Saab I had some contact with one of their officers and I shared the bare bones of this idea with her. Despite the idea having crossed NEVS’s desk some time ago, I don’t think it’ll ever happen, which is why I’ll share it
NEVS/Saab have done it – the first vehicles are rolling off the production line and NEVS even announced today that they’re embarking on a web-based sales model in order to sell some cars in Sweden! All of that’s good news, but I’ve still got some questions, few of which seem to have been answered today. Some thoughts, too. Let’s take
Congratulations to the folks at NEVS/Saab in Trollhattan on the ceremonial start to their vehicle production endeavours. Plenty of questions and curiosities remain, but for the moment, things are on the move in Trollhattan and that’s good for the company, the employees and the town. This presser was released hours ago and anyone who cares will have already read it,
I wrote a few weeks ago about Saabs and Production, tying together a story by Hilton Holloway in England and some stuff that I’d heard on the grapevine. Some excerpts to give you perspective. The first is from Holloway: Although this 9-3 pre-production car is powered by the same 2.0-litre turbocharged petrol engines used in the pre-collapse series production cars,
Some more good news has come out of Trollhattan today. Here’s the invitation: —— National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB has started the production of the Saab 9-3 Aero Sedan with a petrol engine and would like to invite media to a presentation: Time and date: Monday December 2, 13.00. Venue: Main gate, Saabvägen 5, Trollhättan. Program 13.00 Presentation of NEVS
This is my kind of entry. Great car, good feelings, plenty of text, and I didn’t have to write a word of it (beyond this introduction). Ed K, as you’ll plainly see, is a Saab nut and he’s just acquired one of the Saabs of his dreams. This is his story. —— Dear Swade, Just wanted you to know that
Update: translation corrected (the perils of working with Google). I couldn’t help but notice a recent report in Trollhattan’s daily newspaper, TTELA, stating that Stig Nodin has returned to Saab to be the company’s Technical Director. Stig Nodin worked at Saab for two-and-a-half decades and is universally respected for his engineering knowledge. He left Saab around 2007-08 to go and
