Archive for July, 2008
Tuesday Snippets
Here’s a TS-tip: if your Saab 9000 is quite low on fuel you can do either one of two things.
1) fill it up (that’s the best bet), or
2) park facing uphill so that the fuel pump still has something to drink when you go to start it up a few hours later.
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More on the AMS article on the “9-3x”
My thanks to Jimmy J for scanning and sending through a copy of the AMS article that I covered earlier today.
As mentioned earlier, I couldn’t find a copy of it on the Swedish AMS website. It seems that it’s a print-only story at the moment. You Swedes are going to have to go [...]
A new leader in the “Worst Accessory for your Saab” category
eBay. Who knew that it would become the behemoth that it is today?
While minding my own business looking for a used cabin fan for the 9-5, I saw this delightfully ricey and downright silly accessory being pimped for Saabs “worldwide” as the seller says.
It’s a “turbo simulator”. What’s a “turbo simulator”, [...]
AMS forecast Saab 9-3x in Paris, 2008
UPDATE at the bottom
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Auto Motor and Sport magazine, the Swedish version, are predicting that Saab will show off the cross-country style “Saab 9-3x” at the Paris Motor Show in October 2008. The use of the 9-3x name is not confirmed.
Auto Motor and Sport claim that the vehicle will debut in Paris and [...]
Born From Jets - gone but not forgotten
Born from Jets was Jay Spenchian’s baby, his stamp on Saab’s presence in the United States. It arrived with a blaze of glory and I think it really did have the impact that Saab desired on it’s inception. After the near silence and mixed messages that marked the latter years of Debra Kelly-Ennis’s [...]
Saturday Snippets
I’m not allowed to write about the Alfa here, so I won’t tell you about the new exhaust, or the new induction kit, or the chip that’s arrived but isn’t fitted yet, or the fact that it’s been a blast so far and hasn’t broken down once!
If you’d like to see some Alfa’s having a [...]
Saab gets burned - product placement news
Gripen’s done a good bit of tracking work today, confirming that Saab have got a sweet little product placement deal with a new TV show called Burn Notice in the US.
Burn Notice is in it’s second season and Gripen tells me it’s pretty good (we don’t get it here in Oz). The main character’s [...]
Saab Wheels - part of the Saab mojo
I’ve written a number of times on how the wheels maketh the car. This entry’s been prompted by two things:
1) The perception that Saab have a lost at least part of their mojo in the last few years. This question was asked and answered earlier in the week. I think there’s a [...]
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