Saab Photos Preview

More of this stuff later. I have to dash off now to buy a wedding present (yeah, a wedding on new year’s eve). I couldn’t resist publishing just one of these now though. That’s our local SCCA Tas chairman, Drew, sitting in his c900. We took the black beast and my [...]

Born From Jets microsite

This is great.  The groovy music, some great commentaries, film clips, photos and histories.  Seems to me this campaign is becoming more established as it goes along.  Well done.
Go check it out and kill some time at Born From Jets.

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Diversion

I received my photo of the new 20th Anniversary 9-3 Convertible yesterday.  One of the conditions attached to receiving it was that I honour the embargo and not publish it until January 2nd.
So be it.
But if you’d like to see the car and the new colour (one for the ladies, methinks) and you’re in a real [...]

e85 on the rise in US?

Sometimes Autoblog can get it wrong:
A concept version of the 9-5 with a 310hp flex-fuel biodiesel will be shown at the North American International Auto Show, Michigan, in January. 

Ah, no.  That’s Biopower, the engine that runs e85, the ethanol blended fuel. 
Then again, sometimes Autoblog prove themselves to be a wonderfully useful little bunch, especially when [...]

9-3 Sport Combi Award No. 1

The car is only a few months old and the first award has rolled in.  Add this to the Gold Award received by the 9-3 range from the IIHS and the top-10 engine award from Wards Autos and one could say it’s been quite a month for the 9-3.  As one wise commenter noted earlier [...]

9-3 Recall Recall

This seems like fairly small potatoes, but it’s worth taking note of if you’re affected.
There was a recall in November 2004, which involved MY 2001 and MY 2002 9-3’s built at the Uusikaupunki plant in Finland.  The recall was due to some plastic fuel line retaining tabs that may have been damaged during the manufacturing [...]

Holiday Snippets

Howdy all,
Hope you’re enjoying your holiday season.
Things are some ways from getting back to normal here at Trollhattan, but these snippets were worth a posting.
First up, it seems the Saab 9-5 Biopower is kicking goals for Saab in Sweden.  Saab originally forecasted about 5,500 sales through to the end of 2006.  Well, get out the [...]

Christmas Booty Call

A Merry Christmas to you all!!  Thanks to those that left some kind words in the post below.  It’s lunchtime here on Christmas Day and all is quiet.  The kids had breakfast here - crepes and berries - and have gone to their Dad’s for lunch before returning here for dinner (mmmmmm…turkey).
The Swade present list [...]