Calendar - December 2006

It gives me great pleasure to bring you the final calendar for 2006.
It’s quite possibly the final calendar all together, too. It can be difficult to come up with suitable shots month after month and I figure there may be a better use for them than something like a calendar, which has an inbuilt [...]

Thursday Snippets

I’m having a crap day, hence the low posting and bad attitude.
It happens to all of us, I guess.
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Can’t say enough about how p***ed off I am reading headline after headline on the automotive wires about how BMW, Mercedes, Audi and seemingly every other significant European carmaker will be bringing a diesel to the US [...]

More 60th Anniversary photos

Here’s some more pics of the 60th Anniversary edition Saabs that will be coming along in 2007.
Previous photos featured one of the leather seats, embossed with a Saab motif. That was a seat from the 9-3 Sport Sedan and SportCombi.
The following is a photo of the seat from the 9-5:

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The Aero-X gallery - Sydney 2006

All these photos were taken at the Sydney Motor Show, October 2006.
There’s a whole bunch here, including some detail shots that you wouldn’t have seen before. About 40 or so in all. All of them are enlargeable.
My thanks to Richo for taking the photos, all of which are just sensational.
Enjoy!

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Wednesday Snippets

I got this in the mail this morning from Erek.
Ah, If only they’d recognised the growing SUV trend back in the 1980s….

I do not follow the Saab SUV/9-7x discussion too closely over at the blog, so please forgive me if this has already been mentioned or discussed. I have no idea what [...]

Unofficial 9-5 month continues

Here’s a little more 9-5 loving, in two parts.
First up here’s a coooooool 9-5 SOTW picture from Paul H up in Sydney. It’s his 2005 9-5 Linear SportWagon and you gotta love that number plate.
Click to enlarge.

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Secondly, a video I’ve shown here once before. One from the Saabvideos collection, about the [...]

60th Anniversary Shots

With many thanks to Alex over at Autoblog, here’s some 60th Anniversary detail shots. Head over to Autoblog for the full complement of photos.
There’s an anniversary page over at Saab USA too. (Thanks Brian!)
Click the photos to supersize.
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Those wheels look a lot better in detail. These are the ones for the Anniversary 9-5. [...]

Lupini 9-3 at it again

I last covered South African Michele Lupini’s rally work in early October after he won the Total SCC Pretoria All-Tar Rally, just three days after finding out that the rally was actually on.
Lupini’s at it again this weekend, in the Bosal Cars in Action Tarmac Challenge. I was going to write a big long [...]