Finnish Saab Ads

The Finns had a couple of funny Saab ad campaigns going back in the day.
This first one’s from 1987 and a word of warning to the easily embarrassed, it does feature bare butts….
Translation (provided at the Google Video source):
(packing their stuff in to the Saab) “Hi! Haven’t seen you for a long time!” “Hi, [...]

Tuesday Night Snippets

I love iTunes.
I’ve just made my first full album purchase from the iTunes store. I reached back to get in touch with my inner Metalhead and bought Iron Maiden’s “Live After Death”, which I haven’t heard for at least 10 years. I would have bought just the songs I wanted but [...]

Convertible Wallpapers

From our good (if sometimes feral) mates at Saab Australia, some groovy 9-3 Convertible wallpapers, which I’ve re-sized for 800×600 and 1024×768. If you need another size then let me know in comments.
These were put together as part of the recent 20th Anniversary celebrations that were held in Sydney. Please note the correct [...]

Flummoxed

The whole Cadillac-in-Europe thing is still getting my goat. It’s really annoying to hear of developments at Cadillac, of which there are a few doing the rounds at the moment (a coupe for example), whilst Saab hasn’t featured on any of the news services for some time now.
I took a quick look at a [...]

The One-Man-Million-Mile Saab

I heard from a guy some time ago that this might be coming up. I wasn’t aware that he was going to preserve the millionth mile for the SOC though.
The following press release from Saab tells the story…
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Lake George, N.Y. — The affair began in 1966… it’s still running strong 40 years later. [...]

Top Queer and the 9-3 Convertible

Saab is a gay-friendly company. Apparently. I never knew. I always thought they just treated everyone the same, but apparently they’re gay friendly, whatever that means. Perhaps the dealers have finely tuned gay-dars and offer the incredibly neat and stylishly dressed customers a kiss and a tickle? All you dealers [...]

Saab 9-5 (pre-06) on Top Gear

Your SOC goodies are posted below.
For now though, enjoy this……

and this…..

Jay Spenchian remarks at SOC

Following is a transcript of (Managing Director, Saab USA) Jay Spenchian’s address to the delegates at the Saab Owner’s Convention over the weekend. I’d like to thank Saab USA for allowing me to provide it here for the wider Saab community.
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“The State of Saab 2006”
It is again a privilege to be with you all [...]