Saab

2013 Saab Festival celebrates Saab Sport and Rally

There’s a Saab Festival again this year!!! Wish I could go, but we have some other family priorities this year that preclude halfway-round-the-world travel. For those who CAN be there, prepare yourselves for a celebration of Saab’s sporting heritage. The theme for this year’s festival was announced by Saab Museum director and festival co-ordinator, Peter Backstrom, earlier this week: The […]

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Exhibit: Saab Spirit Lives On

The Simeone Automotive Museum in Philadelphia, PA, will host a special Saab exhibition from February 23rd to March 17th entitled The Saab Spirit Lives On. The vehicles on display are all owned by Bill Jacobson, owner of Sports Car Service in Wilmington, Delaware. I don’t know Bill but his name’s been on my radar for some time, now. Bill’s long

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Cars

2013 Super Bowl Car Ads

I featured a number of these last week, but here’s a full run-down of all the Super Bowl car ads shown during the big game in 2013. Audi – “Prom” —— RAM and Jeep After the “Imported from Detroit” ad of a few years ago and last year’s “Halftime in America”, Fiat’s American brands are pulling at the patriotic heartstrings

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Movie Reviews

Movies: Flight

Tonight’s movie was the new Denzel Washington film, Flight, directed by Robert Zemickis, otherwise known for his work with Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump and Cast Away. Here’s the trailer, which goes for 2.5 minutes and should be watched in full to understand this review. —— Got it? OK, forget what you just saw, because any notions of heroism and

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Monday Morning Motoring Missive

It’s not a Monday, but after the Australia Day holiday yesterday it kind of feels like a Monday. Historic Vision Let’s start the week with a magical photo from one the companies that keeps on gaining traction on my automotive radar – Renault. Specifically, Renault’s sportier extensions: RenaultSport and Renault Alpine. This historic photo was spotted on Automobiliac and shows

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Gallery: My garage

Part 2 of 2 in the “can’t get much PC-time this week so I’m posting lame-ass galleries series” A short retrospective of the cars that I’ve owned since I started writing about Saab and cars in general, back in 2005. If I were to pick three favourites, they’d be (in order of preference): Saab 9-3 Viggen Alfa Romeo 33 16V

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