Archive for September, 2008
Images from Top Gear Australia
As a post-script to my quick review of Top Gear Australia’s first episode last night, Trent W has been kind enough to shoot through a handful of images from the show.
The Skoda Sonett?!
My thanks to T-shirt guru, Ivan, for passing this one along.
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It seems a certain Eastern European car company might have been pinching their designs, or at least their design inspirations, from someone else back in the 1960s.
Saab dreams
It’s March 30, 2010. Exactly 18 months from today. And whilst the rest of the world is still recovering from President Palin’s invasion of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver (foreign policy, ya know), LL Bean carparks across America resonate to the sound of twin exhausts as SaabUSA conduct demonstration days there (but only on rainy days) at the behest of their new CEO, a previously underacknowledged blogger.
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OK, that’s not a likely scenario. The Canadians will hold them at Whistler. But I’ll be 40 years old that day and I’d like to envision something.
Saab Nordic Adventure
Our unofficial Saab ambassador to the UK, Robin M, recently travelled to Sweden with his wife Kerry for a Nordic adventure, courtesy of Saab. His trip was a reward for his efforts to get as many people as possible to test drive a 9-3 TTiD during a eight-week stint earlier this year.
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This is his account
Top Gear Australia - first episode
The first episode of the extended Top Gear franchise - the first to be produced and filemd outside the UK with a cast not called Clarkson, Hammond and May - has just aired on Australian TV.
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The good news is: There is hope. They didn’t try and completely reproduce the characters on the UK show and therefore they didn’t fall on their collective arse. And Saab had a nice little cameo role, too.
2009 Saab 9-3 Hirsch - German market
After covering it in another article earlier today, I’ve now received fuller details of the 2009 Saab 9-3 Hirsch model for the German market. This car gets the full Hirsch treatment and reads like a very desireable model that Saab should be marketing everywhere.
2009 Saab 9-5 - details for Germany (bonus: 9-3 Hirsch info as well!)
Hot on the heels of details coming through for the 2009 Saab 9-5 in Sweden, we’ve now received a little information for the German edition in what will be the final year for this generation of the Saab 9-5.
More on that STCC Saab 9-3…… and who likes racing?
I posted on the good news of a Saab 9-3 being entered in the 2009 Swedish Touring Car Championship series last week. I’ve just received an email this morning pointing me towards some new, more detailed images of the vehicle under development.
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