Back in January 2014, I wrote a post called Swade’s 7 Investment Cars for Less Than $30,000. It’s been said that classic cars were one of the better-performing investments over the last 10 years and I’ve noted in a previous post that Classic Car prices have gone completely maaaaaad. Consider this an extension study to substantiate that earlier work. I’ve […]
I must apologise for this post taking SOOOOOOOOOO long. It was way back in August 2022 that I appealed to the collective wisdom of this website’s occasional readers, to suggest vehicle options for our upcoming move to Sweden. We arrived here late-October 2022 and I’ve been driving this BMW 328i GT since Day 2. That was 8 months ago! Some
My father was 52 years old when he died. He lived 19,256 days. Today, the 19th December 2022, is day number 19,257 for me. Today, I am older than my father ever got to be. It’s a strange thing, passing a milestone like that. And as you can probably tell from the mere fact that this post starts with such
I’ve had a number of Alfas over the years. Two Sprints (plus caring for another for six months), two 16-valve 33s, a GTV6 from the mid-80s and….. the most recent one, which I’ve never written about: My Alfa Romeo Giulietta QV. Well, my former Giulietta QV. I’ve recently sold it because we’re moving to Sweden in the coming weeks. I
As you now know, we’re moving to Sweden. And as I sold my Alfa (quite literally) just five minutes before starting this post, my mind is now on what keys will be in my pocket when we’re living there. This is a genuine quandry, and one I wouldn’t mind your collective advice on. My default is to go with the
Hey there. Last week’s post notwithstanding, it’s been a while. Given that this website was always intended to be a more personal site – rather than the Saab community sites of yore – and because I’ve made a few electronic friends over the years that I enjoy keeping in touch with when I can, I thought it indulgent appropriate to….
Question – Have the prices for classic cars gone as nuts in your country as they have here in Australia? It’s reminiscent of this old classic TV ad from Melbourne back in the early 1990’s (with thanks to Turbin!) I’ll let you decide for yourself whether or not Madonna had lost the plot back then. But there’s a reasonable argument
I promised four years ago that I’d leave this website free of commentary on Donald Trump. Unlike the former president, I’ve kept to my word. Well, until now, I guess. The demise of The Donald – and my god it feels good to write that sentence! – gives us a brief moment to assess the important lessons to be learned
Australian politicians are fond of looking down the barrel of a camera and saying “Australia is meeting – and beating! – its international emissions targets”. They’re lying. OK, technically they can look their kids in the eye and claim they’re not lying – just – because if you employ a couple of loopholes built into those targets back in the
This is a bit cheap, isn’t it, Turning a Facebook challenge series into a blog post? I know. I’m sorry. But it’s been soooo long since I’ve written something here and this challenge was actually quite Swadeology-ish, so why not? The idea is in the title – list 10 cars that changed the way you think about cars. They’re not
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I’m sad to report that in the next few months I will leave my employment at Koenigsegg Automotive. I will leave Sweden. And Europe. I’ll really miss my colleagues at Koenigsegg. We’ve done some amazing things together. World record things. Breaking-the-mold things. My first day at work we broke the 0-300-0 km/h record with the One:1. A few months earlier
