US diesels

Regular visitors here would know that if there’s a forced choice between introducing either Biopower or diesel in the US market, I’d opt for diesel. I’ve been on the diesel bandwagon for over a year now and for all that time I’ve been saying that if Saab don’t prepare for the new US regulations [...]

It’s sales-data time again

That’s right, folks. It’s approaching that time where we crunch the numbers and oooh, ahhh and uurgh over sales data from the various markets around the world in order to assess the performance of the Saab brand through the year.
Commentators are expecting a pretty gloomy May in the US. Here’s hoping for a [...]

SOTW - May 31

It’s a treat to bring you this SOTW combination. It’s not often I’ll publish more than one pic at a time, but I love both pictures, I think the car is going to be thought of one day as a classic Saab and the location is kind of special for me as well.
This is [...]

2.3 Biopower

I haven’t seen it hanging around the usual GM sites yet, but Auto Spectator are running what looks very much like a GM press release on the oft-rumoured-and-now-seemingly-imminent 2.3 litre Biopower engine.

The new look Saab 9-5 Sedan and SportCombi range is further enhanced for Model Year 2007 by the introduction of a more powerful BioPower [...]

More MY2007 Chatter

We’ve already had the 2007 9-3 interior photo, comments, SaabCentral comments and my thoughts.
Now, via ctm and mecachrome (in comments) there’s also the following MY2007 info, gathered from a Swedish news article and the Swedish Saab forum, iSaab.
saab 9-3:
acc standard on all models
interior as the leaked pictures
almost same price (maybe only in sweden?) [...]

Tuesday Snippets

I’ve never been asked by Saab to do any advertising before. I’d love to help out as a) I love the cars, and b) I could use the extra revenue, but they obviously don’t think it’s worthwhile. I guess it’s a little like preaching to the converted, though every sale helps and my [...]

Massive Old-Saab-Sale on Ebay!!

Thanks to Nutcase at SaabCentral, news that the on-again-off-again “barn sale” is…………on again. This a very extensive collection of old Saabs that were stored in a barn in the UK and are now going up for sale. Some are parts only, some are restorers. From two-stroke to turbo and there’s even a [...]

Saab’s Aussie Offer

I was having a surf on the News Ltd website (I do actually work occasionally) and noticed a link to this: Saab’s Midsommar Sale.
A little while ago Saab Oz decided to strip down the MY06 Linear 9-3 SS and offer it for $39,900. This was a pretty decent price breakthrough here in [...]