When you have a day like we did here yesterday, with the excellent Saab 9-3 SS discussion and the first possible spotting of the new Saab 9-5 interior, it seems a little hollow to be writing again if you can’t top a day like that.

And by the way, that 9-3 discussion was without doubt one of the best discourses we’ve had on this site in three and half years. My thanks to all for your insight and contribution.

Today will no doubt be quieter, but here we go anyway.

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The Guardian in the UK comment on the availbility of employee pricing there on Saabs at the moment:

Saab, for example, has been running a high-profile ad campaign advertising “employee discounts”. It claims ordinary buyers can benefit from the same price reductions as its staff. On a Saab 95 Saloon Turbo Edition 2.0t it is offering to cut the £19,995 asking price to £18,534 – a £1,461 discount.

…..and that reminds me. GM have extended Employee Pricing in the US but you can only get it if you know a GM employee:

The program allows U.S. salaried workers to share their discount with two other people, GM spokesman John McDonald said. The program began Wednesday and will run until Nov. 3.

And Australian Saab owners looking for the deal of a lifetime shold call their Saab dealer and ask about the very special loyalty discount offer they’ve got going on at the moment.

It’s worth the cost of a phone call, I promise you.

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Further to the recent release of Consumer Reports’ reliability findings, John McElroy has a good article over at Autoblog about all these surveys and why they confuse the crap out most people.

Definitely worth a read.

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Robert Farago usually just frustrates the crap out me by applying his considerable literary talents to stupid effect. But he’s got some good sources and one of them has just given us a valuable perspective as to how tight things are getting at GM’s headquarters in Detroit.

The escalators are now being switched off.

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On the few occasions I’ve had access to it, I’ve rarely seen much on pay-TV that justifies the cost. There’s the odd good program that I’d like to see regularly, but it’s usually surrounded by so much crap that there’s no way I’d fork out the $50 or $60 a month they ask here in Australia.

As a result, I don’t have access to the Discovery Channel and I can’t watch Chop Shop.

If you can watch Chop Shop, then maybe you’re in a corner of the room curled up in the foetal position right now as you’ve watched them turn this:

Into this:

All in fun, I guess, and it’ll be interesting to see when they finish the project.

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