This past weekend wasn’t just full of Olympic action, it was also the weekend for European Saab nuts together in Latvia for IntSaab 2008.

Hopefully there’ll be some images and stories floating around the internet in the next week or so.

If you’re readying your 2009 calendar, please note that IntSaab will be held in The Netherlands and I believe they’re awaiting advice from Trollhattan as to the dates for the Saab Festival so that they can tie the two events together. I’d suggest you block out a few weeks in June for the Saab time of your life!

UPDATE:

The IntSaab2009 website is now up an running. I’ll prepare a separate post on the event.

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Autoblog Green are featuring some photos of the 9-4x out testing. I think they’re from the same drive session that Auto Motor and Sport captured last week.

ABG, however, are still holding out to the hope that it might go through unchanged from the concept car shown at Detroit, including the engines available. Well, we featured the 9-4x engine news here at TS some time ago and there’s not a BioPower four cylinder in sight - not for the US market, at least.

Sam from ABG, the RSS button is in the left sidebar.

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I got an email from Golfhunter over the weekend about his beautiful Saab 96 cabriolet featuring in the Saab Car Club of Australia magazine. I hadn’t seen it, so I was pleasantly surprised to see a scan of the page on his Flickr site.

SCCA’s magazine is one of the best car club publications you’ll ever come accross. Kudos to Steve B, otherwise known as sab, who’s been putting it together for around 10 years straight now. A Herculean effort.

And kudos to Jeff on the car, again.

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1985Gripen hooked me up with this video of Steve Shannon, which was shot by the guys at Kelley Blue Book earlier this year at the New York International Auto Show.

It’s actually quite a good little interview and there’s a lot of promise when you hear Shannon’s thoughts and prognostications like this.

The problem? We don’t hear it enough. According to the KBB site, this video had only been viewed 313 times in around 5 months. Need. More. Coverage.

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Any of you still play long-play records instead of CDs? Fans of the big black discs will talk your ears off for hours about how the sound from vinyl is warmer and richer in tone than the clinical accuracy of digital sound. I agree to an extent, but I like the compactness of digital.

I’ve occasionally wondered if the same argument would eventually be made about digital and film cameras. I know from personal experience that I got more satisfaction from a good film shot that what I do now from a nicely retouched digital shot. The main problem with film for me was that I only ever got 4 or 5 good shots from a 24-exposure roll of Fuji.

The caption on this shot from Flickr states that it was snapped with an old crappy Kodak camera, some time ago. I’m going to get all old fashioned and sentimental, and assume this was a film shot and that it’s been scanned in directly without retouching.

Nice.

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Not so nice are these apparently OEM headlamp protectors, posted by Zonovar at Flickr, who I believe hails from Sydney and has graced these pages before.

I guess it’s one of those form-follows-function things that didn’t turn out so nice. I’m sure they’re effective, though.

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Per Eklund raced in the European Rallycross Championship once again last weekend. The event was held at Maasmechelen in Belgium.

Per had some trouble throughout the weekend’s event, having to deal with a troublesome gearbox, poor conditions and some drivers that like to hit his car.

A 12th position finish ensured. Mike Jager has all the details and next weekend the European Championship moves to The Netherlands.

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