The video below has been the hot video of the week, racking up nearly 2.5 million views in just 4 days. I reckon nearly 1 million of those views have been from Saab fans 🙂 I first saw it on Tuesday but decided I wouldn’t use it on site. It was nice, but for me, it lacked* the backstory needed […]
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In reaction to yesterday’s negative press about an appointment being made at bankruptcy court, NEVS managed to convince the petitioner to withdraw his claim. That’s good news. NEVS’s anaemic PR division followed this up with a press release: Nevs hereby clarify that the company is not insolvent. The company does not have enough liquid cash as today to pay all
Scandinavian thrillers have been in vogue for the past 5 years or so, but this one’s becoming less of a thriller and more of a “why-dunnit?”. The conclusion is fairly well known to most objective observers; Saab is highly likely to be skewered and fairly soon. The only remaining questions are to do with any minor flips or twists along
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Your pictures were appended to your census comments last week, but I figured the effort people went to to send in some photos deserved a bit more recognition than that. So, here are your cars in a post of their own. There’s an undeniable Swedish theme hanging around, which is never a bad thing. It’s not as Swedish as it
There was some chagrin recently when Tim mentioned in comments on Saabs United that he was thinking of buying a BMW. How could someone so dedicated ever consider another brand? Some people expressed surprise, others disappointment. My advice: build a bridge and get over it. People everywhere are capable of loving a brand, remaining fully invested in that brand while
I’m always amazed at the number of people who include terrible, poorly lit and poorly composed photos in advertisements for cars they’re trying to sell. If you’re selling your car and trying to coax someone into spending thousands of dollars – or maybe tens of thousands of dollars – surely you can make a bit of an effort to present
A big THANKYOU to all who participated in sharing the contents of your garage. It was great to see the variety of vehicles and the extent of people’s collections. I think we might have to do this again in the future, but perhaps in a more organised way. Anyway, thanks a bunch. It was a lot of fun. —— 968
UPDATE! – Everything works better with photos. If you’d like me to include a photo with your comment then send a picture to swade99-at-gmail-dot-com and I’ll weave some magic and include the pic(s) with your comment. Check out some of your fellow reader’s rides in comments below. Outstanding!!! —— When I posted my question a few days ago – What’s
oday was the first Sunday of the month and after a few months away on family visits, it was great for me to get back to Classics By The Beach. And what a day! We had some terrible weather in Hobart last week, but it’s almost as if the weather gods were trying to get the bad stuff out of
We’ve been house-hunting recently. Not for an ideal 4-car garage. Just for a house, but hey….. We thought we’d found a good one, too. If we’d gone ahead and bought it, this would have been my garage/workshop 🙂 That would have been nice. Sadly, for various reasons, it just didn’t turn out to be the place for us. All that
Personal reflection session. Feel free to ignore. I participated in a development session today and one of the ‘tools’ we were exposed to was the philosophy of personal responsibility by way of the following: E + R = O. Event + Reaction = Outcome. That is, when something happens, it’s how you react to that event that is a decisive
