Saab Sunday Reading

Hi all, on a gloomy Sunday morning here in Tasmania. Some lazy Sunday reading for everyone….
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Autoblog have started a new blog called Autoblog Green. Those of you interested in biodiesel, ethanol, alternative fuel, hybrid etc etc may find it worthy of a bookmark.
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Gunnar Heinrich of Automobiles Deluxe makes some interesting points in an [...]

Weekend Snippets

Howdy all. I’ve been off watching a bit of Targa Tasmania today. Sadly, there’s no Saab in the event this year. Last year I did extensive coverage of the event as there was a 99 Turbo entered. This year, I was doing my best to catch up with the 1938 Alfa [...]

Saab O The Week - Apr 28

It’s been all Alfa this evening as I trotted on down to see the Targa Tasmania cars down at Wrest Point here in Hobart.
To restore the balance, here’s a classic Saab 99 Turbo, belonging to Simon in Sydney, right here in Australia. Magnificent.
Simon says:

This car was restored some 11 years ago by a local [...]

Diesel publicity on the rise (US)

Via Autoblog, there’s a great article in BusinessWeek about the slowly swelling interest in deisel engines in the US. It’s a good background primer about why diesel hasn’t been available there and just how prevalent it is in the Euro market (in some countries, diesels now comprise the majority of new sales).
The key date [...]

Edmunds on the 9-1

I’ve added a new category here at Trollhattan, starting today.
Up until now I’ve been reluctant to refer to Saab’s planned new compact car as the 9-1, preferring to refer to it as the 9-2 in deference to the car it’s being designed to replace, the 9-2x. I think there’s enough out there now, though, [...]

Q & A with Brian Nesbitt

Brian Nesbitt is the head design guy for GM Europe, so when he does a Q&A it’s worth tuning into as it’ll likely have a bearing on Saabs somewhere down the line.
This is a quick Q&A from Autoweek, who cornered Nesbitt at the New York International Autoshow. The relevant Saab bits? Read on….

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Saab Alcokey - a bit more….

The Detroit Free Press has a longer article on the push for alcohol detection devices being fitted to all cars in te US by 2009.
It seems that the push is coming from a group called MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving). Curiously, their CEO is one stange mother named Chuck. But I digress….
Apparently there’s [...]

Thursday Snippets

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has your “Platform Sharing 101″ course. A good basic intro if you’re new to such things and our favourite car company, predictably, gets a decent mention.

“It’s hard to say whether it’s GM’s fault or Saab’s, but that was a car company that had quirky, distinct Swedish personality, and then somewhere in [...]