Comments on: Great Men of Saab: Bob Sinclair

By: 1985 Gripen

1985 Gripen — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:39:20 +0000

MarkS: Mr. Envall is retired but works as a “consultant” of sorts to Saab, I understand. He’s not an official employee but he makes himself available and is still very much in-tune with what’s going on.

By: riku1100s

riku1100s — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:32:12 +0000

Yes, so much for Saabists and politics.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:20:58 +0000

That lanes quote pretty much sums everything up, doesn’t it?

By: riku1100s

riku1100s — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:26:24 +0000

Of course upper liberals drive in the left lane !

By: Kroum

Kroum — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:25:36 +0000

Eggs, I made a comment a couple of weeks back about he possibility that Saab HQ are too stubborn sometimes, and stick too much to the “Swedeness” of their cars. Mr. Sinclair’s recollection kind of reinforces that. The whole commentary was in context of something to do with new model development.

Ahh… I agree with you. And, yes, Mr. Sinclair speaks about a couple of those times in various sources. EnG

By: eggsngrits

eggsngrits — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:06:32 +0000

Oh, and really funny, Swade. Saabhistrionics my ***. Ryan left a comment to the effect that the references that were there should hve been to Saab History rather than Saab Museum, and in my jetlagged state I mis-spelled the first one, producing hoisery, which made me giggle, so I figured I'd have a laugh to myself. No offence intended, Ryan. - SW Ditto, Ryan. It was my typo -- it was late and I was scrambling to post some content given that Swade looked to be out of commission for some additional time. My bad. EnG [mutters under breath about Swade's tactic]

By: eggsngrits

eggsngrits — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:00:58 +0000

Kroum: I’m at a loss, could you let me know what you’re referencing?

Mark: Unfortunately (for us), Messrs. Sinclair and Envall are retired. Our loss and their gain.

By: MarkS

MarkS — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:44:28 +0000

Gripen-that’s a great photo! Hey, maybe Bob would come out of retirement for a while to help Saab again (hee hee). And while we’re at it, I wish we could summon the ghost of Sixten Sason and send him over to the Saab design center!! What’s Björn Envall up to these days? Is he still part of the Saab design team is Sweden (I hope)? We need him!!

By: Kroum

Kroum — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:10:16 +0000

After a row with the Swedish HQ, he agreed to pay for the development and the 900 convertible was born.

Seems to reinforce my thesis from a few weeks ago.

By: 1985 Gripen

1985 Gripen — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:56:06 +0000

How could I forget: following on that last comment, Björn Envall told Bob about trollhattansaab.net and Bob checked it out for the first time yesterday and was of course impressed.

So just so you all know: Björn Envall reads TS and recommends it!

Oy! In that case, I’ll be doing the Björn Envall installment v-e-r-y carefully! EnG