US: ‘Born from Jets’ to get afterburners

Good news this morning for US markets. There were criticisms earlier this year that Saab’s advertising was basically non-existant, and what there was was a bit of a sham anyway. Saab, under Debra Kelly-Ennis’ leadership was emphasising the fact that it was a little bit different, but little else.
Enter Jay ‘The Pharmacist’ Spenchian [...]

Reliability: not good enough!!

I had the pleasure of taking a brand new 9-3 convertible for a spin a few weekends ago. It was a sensational weekend and I couldn’t have enjoyed it more. The car drove like a dream and everything (except the CD player) worked like it was supposed to.
It seems like that’s not always [...]

Viggen: the saga continues

After shooting off a fairly brief email saying the deal was off, the owner contacted me again last night and included some ‘before’ shots.
In Victoria (the state where the car is located), there’s 2 types of writeoff. The first is the Statutory Writeoff, where the vehicle cannot be repaired and is only good for [...]

How to pi$$ off a buyer…..

Remember the other day when I said I was 99.9% sure that I’d purchased a new vehicle??
Well, the 0.1% reared it’s ugly head.
I’d had the vehicle checked out - seemed OK. I’d arranged the money - all went OK.
My final check today was to get a Vehicle Information Package from VicRoads (i.e. Dept of [...]

Delphi watch: proposal to UAW

I’m posting on this as the Delphi bankruptcy proceedings are basically a test case for GM’s own possible bankruptcy in the future. And like it or not, that will effect Saab in no small way. For those of us that were hoping that Renault would buy Saab from GM, don’t hold your breath; [...]

Saab Design Competition

I’ve recently wished I could read Swedish so I could make more sense out of the various Svenska bulletin boards out there. Now I find myself wishing I could read Korean as well. Remember those rumours about Saabs being built in Korea some day? Well, it ain’t happening yet, but here’s some [...]

SOTW and news snippets

First up, here’s a great SOTW shot. My thanks to Robin M in the UK, and especially to his young daughter Azabeth, who took this photo whilst playing around with the digital camera. Sometimes you can take great shots purely by accident that you can never recreate!!

Click on the picture to enlarge.
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GM’s sold [...]

“Badge” vs “Re” engineering

It seems to have become a constant theme on Saab forums recently: the ongoing controversy between badge-engineering and what I’ll call re-engineering. It’s been a prominent feature in comments too, so I thought it deserved a post of its own for discussion.
I’ve been reading all the comments people left on the “Teel GM About [...]