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Now that’s wierd, writing some Wednesday Snippets when my laptop’s clock tells me it’s Thursday (which it is, back in Australia).

Saab sightings have been minimal for the last few days as we’ve been house-bound a little, and we’re now located in more of a rural area a few hours out of Vancouver. Nonetheless, we did spot another convertible, another C900 and our first Saab 9000 a few days ago. Those three take the total for the trip up to 16 Saabs seen so far.

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Autonet Canada have a wishy-washy review of the Saab 9-3. you’ll understand that description when you read it.

The biggest thing I got from it was the need for an interior revamp. It really is an awesome car and whilst the interior’s OK, it could be excellent.

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Pete De Lorenzo has a fantastic piece going this week in the Rants section at Auto Extremist. It’s on Bill Mitchell, GM’s former design guru from the 1960s.

The piece is actually lifted and edited from his book, but it serves well as a lead up to GM’s 100 years celebrations coming next month.

If you’d like to get a feel for what it was like growing up, quite literally, in GM’s backyard in the days of big fast cars with big styling cues, then this is the piece you should read. It was written by a grown man, but with the wide-eyed kid that he used to be sitting right there in the room.

Now, apply that same appreciation and enthusiasm to a Saab point of view, and you have the reasons for this site and the hope for the future.

A great read and highly recommended.

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This is a curious thing: GM have named the Saab 92 in a list of their Top 10 production cars.

I appreciate the consideration and inclusion, but let’s be honest here…….

The 92 was made at a time where GM had never even heard of Saab, much less owned them, and if GM wanted to pick a Saab (any Saab) to include in the list, then why not the Saabiest Saab of them all, the C900 Turbo?

What’s more, their other list – Top 10 concept cars – doesn’t include a Saab, not even the Aero-X, which was a Concept Car of the Year winner, is one of the most amazing concepts of all time, and is a car that actually was made under GM’s watch.

Ah, families. Can’t live with ‘em. Can’t shoot ‘em.

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Some Saab graffiti, spotted by imation188 and posted on Flickr:

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