UPDATED!!

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Automobile Magazine have slotted a post into their online blog covering Saab’s moose test. I’d imagine most visitors here would be familiar with the moose test, but just in case…..

In addition to the usual battery of side-impact, head-on, and offset crash tests, the engineers at Saab subject the car to a simulated encounter with an elk at speed…..the elk is actually an 850 pound bundle of metal and lumber wrapped up in a blanket. But it is propped up on stands to approximate the correct height and center of gravity for a real elk.

Saab engineers have been running this test for years and it’s one of the reasons your Saab is so stucturally sound.

That’s interesting enough for those who didn’t know about the moose test (or elk, as they call it here). What I found more interesting is that this has appeared in Automobile in the month where Saab have opened the wallet for some serious advertising.

Maybe money can buy you love, after all?

I’m not complaining. I think it’s great that SaabUSA are advertising their product again and if they get some routine content as a bonus then that’s great. More people get to read more stuff about Saab.

At the end of the day, it’s more of a reflection on Automobile’s policies than anything else. Interesting stuff.

UPDATE

Well whaddayaknow?!

Now there’s an article at Automobile Mag’s blog on the difference between turbocharging and supercharging, with the noted turbocharging compay being none other than good ole Saab!

More ads! More ads, I say!!!

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