Saabs race the midnight sun

The Rally to the Midnight Sun was held last weekend in Sweden, and old Saabs were there in great numbers.
Our mate SaabRobz was on the scene and filled a Flickr folder full of Saabs, Volvos and other marques as they made their way around the final stages near Karlstad.
Click here to view the whole lot. [...]

My time in the Hummer H3

I bet you didn’t think a quick review of the Hummer H3 would be the first full-on story from my weekend’s driving at GM’s proving grounds at Lang Lang, here in Australia.
But it is, primarily because I’ve come back with the flu and this one will be a quick one to write.
Let’s start with 1,000 [...]

Do not adjust your set - trying out TS 2.0

UPDATE - I’ll leave this up for another few hours, but I’m not totally happy with the way things are organised and will switch back to the original theme until a few presentation matters can be fixed.

If you’re reading this for the first time and the website looks exactly like it did yesterday, then you probably need to empty your cache and refresh the page. TS 2.0 is in town and it’s a whole lot of different!

Let’s take a walk through and have a look at some of the new bits, shall we?

Saab Heritage Microsite on SaabUSA.com

It seems that Jan-Willem and friends are at work telling the Saab story in pictures.
Saab’s history is available on the SaabUSA.com site just in time for the 2009 model year announcements. Take a look. Always an interesting read.
My guess is that the upcoming “30 Years of Turbocharging” marketing campaign is related in some [...]

Sunday Night Snippets

A little while ago, I wrote about two stories that were published on a blog called Famosity. The blog is written by a woman who I’d guess is in her 50’s now and these two stories cover the early years of her courtship and married life, with a particular focus on the car that [...]

EnG Weekend Snippets

Well, it’s 3 AM and I’m awake because my 8-year-old daughter “couldn’t sleep”. Of course, she lasted all of three minutes after I put her back to bed, but now I’m up. Ah, well, time for some writing.
Before I get to the Saab stuff, let’s talk barbeque for a moment, shall we? [...]

A little fun with Peter Johansson

A quick peek at what the Turbo X got up to on the weekend.

It may not look blistering fast there, but he’s approaching the fastest bit of the track where top speeds got up to around 170 km/h. That’s on dirt, by the way, so it was a little nerve racking - [...]

The Saab Aero Academy is bust

I’ve just got back home from the Lang Lang test drive to find this in my inbox from Djup Strupe.
First the Euro Delivery program goes, now this……
Subject: Important Update regarding Saab Aero Academy Program
Effective July 1, 2008 Saab will discontinue offering purchasers of 2008 and subsequent model year Saabs participation in the Saab Aero Academy in [...]