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Saab 99 items on Ebay

Just a quick note to let any interested parties know that I’m selling a few Saab 99 bits on Ebay. I’ve got three items up there right now, with a few more to be listed over the coming weeks. On sale right now: Saab 99 Turbo Inca wheels – set of 4 Saab 99 Turbo Steering wheel with center pad […]

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Sonabusa update

Can you imagine the funky lines of the Saab Sonett III propelled along at lightning speed by a Suzuki Hayabusa engine? Now this is my kinda hybrid!!!!! It’s called Sonabusa and the build continues at Albany Speed Shop, owned and operated by former New Salem Saab proprietor, Darryl Carl. Last time we checked, they’d just installed the engine and taken

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Press Release: Spyker’s deal with Youngman to build Spykerised Saabs (and other things)

I’ll probably talk a bit more about this as time goes by so I figure it’s best to have a copy of it on the record here. I’m quite surprised by this and intrigued as to how this could possibly be achieved and what might be the end game because right now, I don’t know how the things planned in

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Spyker/Saab’s $3B lawsuit against GM in a reasonably large nutshell – according to me

It’s hard to call a 2,000+ word article a “nutshell” but it’s a lot less than the original at 7,000 words. If you want the one paragraph Swade-view nutshell, here it is: Spyker/Saab claim that GM gave indications they were willing to accept a Chinese solution to Saab’s financial problems early in the piece. They even steered them towards it

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Car company profitability shouldn’t be that hard with this sort of stuff going on

When I was at Saab I was amazed at some of the services we were outsourcing and how much they cost. My perception was that the costs associated with this were negotiated to some degree, but mostly just accepted. It seemed to have become an ingrained behaviour, most likely under GM’s ownership of the previous 20 years. Saab’s ownership changed,

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The Saab 99Turbo Extra Button

UPDATED – see below! What’s with the Saab99Turbo Extra button? Ever since the Top Gear story on Saab, I’ve had a steady flow of web searchers landing here looking for information on the Saab 99Turbo Extra button. People seem to want to know what the extra button was for. James and Jeremy gave us no real insight other than proving

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