Non-Saab Specific Snippets

Big congratulations to the Sydney Swans, who have broken a 72 year drought to win the Australian Football League grand final today.  For you Yanks, that’s the Aussie version of the Superbowl and for you Euro types, it’s the equivalent of, say, a cup final in one of your football competitions.
My AFL team, Carlton, [...]

Tell GM about it

On his recent podcast, Bob Lutz acknowledged several things. Firstly, he stated that when developing new models, designers and engineers shouldn’t “just make them better than the ones before, but identify the elements of the best in the world and then shoot to beat everybody”. Some of you may agree or disagree as [...]

Bob’s Podcast

Since I started this weblog, there’s been a few things happen that have really illustrated the potential of blogging as a medium. It’s direct. It has the potential to remove the middle man (big media) and allow direct communication between, say, a company and its customers. It has the potential to effect [...]

RIP 99T

I’m sorry to say, but it looks like my beloved 99 Turbo may be going the way of the dodo. I’ve been considering what to do for a while now and it looks like it’s going to have to be sold as a fixer-upper for someone with the room, tools and know-how to do [...]

9-6x Thanks

I just wanted to say thank-you to everyone that dropped a translation of the ‘Speedheads’ article either in comments or to me via email. You’re all sensational!
The article, in reference to the 9-6x photo, translates as follows:
“SAAB: Two new SUVs to bring momentum
Following the money cutting course including dismissal of a total of 12,000 [...]

9-7x promotional video

This is fantastic!! It’ll take some of your time, but it’ll give you an insight into many different things….
***please look at the footer at the bottom of the post prior to going to video links***

The videos available at these links are from the 9-7x press days held earlier this year. In each video, [...]

Rita the ETA eater

Given what happened with Katrina, Saab news can take a back seat to Hurricane Rita for a moment.
Aussie readers might remember Rita the ETA eater. She was an advertising creation for ETA margarine and peanut butter back in the 1970’s. This isn’t a figment of anyone’s marketing imagination. From CNN.

If there’s any [...]

Another 9-6x shot

Via JWLANKY at Saabcentral.
This photo has been published on a site called ‘Speedheads‘ in Germany. If there’s any German readers that can translate any of the accompanying material, then we’d all be grateful, I’m sure.
From what I can tell, it’s being written up in a forum at Speedheads as a photo of [...]