The Saab Festival - Day 1
Hi all.
It’s 8.30 a.m. here and here’s the program for the day:
- The following facilities are open all day, with some offering tours throughout the day
Saab Factory - where they build the cars - duh
ANA Trollhattan - the GM-Saab owned dealership here in town
Saab Car Museum - free entry for all!
SDCC outlet - selling NOS Saab parts "at rock-bottom prices"
Today, we also have the following presentations being made. I’m going to try and get to all of them at different stages:
13.00 - The world’s most extreme Saab (ANA)
13:00 and 15.00 - Workshop diagnostics (Museum)
14.00 - Talladega 1986 (Museum)
14:15 and 16:15 - guided tour of ANA
15:00 - Saab Biopower (ANA)
16:00 - LaCarrera Panamerica Saab 96 (Museum)
17:00 - Swede Team Motor (ANA)
I’ll definitely be at The SDCC sales, the world’s most extreme Saab, a guided tour of ANA, La Carrera Panamerica and the Swede Team Motor presentations.
Sounds like a full day. The stuff that I’ll miss today will be on again tomorrow at different times, so I’ll catch it then.
See you all on the other side!
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Hey swade, what’s in the SAAB show bag? Could you get some pics of the Linear (or whatever replaces it).
Cheers,
Argg’ folks!
’bout stating the colour (ref*) as saffron!?!
To me saffron will have a more distinct yellowish orange touch and feel… and this colour I deem of as being more “sharp” in a highly saturated yellow tone…
I’d call it something else than saffron ye pirates;> {…of cab’ian seas!-}
//Par
*http://forum.saabturboclub.com/viewtopic.php?t=163541&start=465
Yet another car with the ignition between the seats…
http://www.ftd.de/auto/bilder/198433.html?bid=198434&p=1&cp=12
Is it the new Saab 9-1?
Make sense. They lost so much money on the Smart operation, that GM will buy it and rebadge it as a Saab 9-1.
Bad news from Germany, again:
(smart sold 3043 ‘cars’ in May)
Saab sold 415 units, 28% less that in May 2006. This year’s sales are down by 24%, to 1698, as compared with Jan-May 2006. The figures for the whole market are -11% and -10%.
Swade, can you do something about it (neing so close to Germany at the moment)?
But hey, if we count smart’s sales (new 9-1, remember) together with Saab’s preformance, the numbers look much better, at leas in absolute terms!
I don’t suppose the SDCC outlet has a web presence, e-mail address, snail mail address, anything? Course, I suppose NOS doesn’t go back as far as I would like anyway:-(
Swade, dude
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaase 
PLEASE find out about that Snow Silver colour and if it is indeed going to be the same colour that is on the Aero-X
TED Y
Here is the webpage of the sdcc:
http://www.sdcc.se/
it’s in swedish, however…
But here is a very good dictionary:
http://lexin2.nada.kth.se/swe-eng.html
Enjoy!
Thanks bart.
Talking about ignition placement, check out this Italian:
http://www.diariomotor.com/imagenes/fiat-croma-2006-3.jpg