Saturday Night Snippets

I’ve read car reviews, and car comparisons, writeups from track days and diaries from economy runs. There’s all sorts of automotive content out there, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a review that spends all of it’s time talking about a roof.

So, first question: what do YOU think of the sand roof on the black body?

Saab 9-3 Convertible

I’m a fan. This sand top would also look great on white, too, IMHO.

The review is supposed to be about the car, but really does spend the majority of it’s time on the roof: the color, the insulation, the opening and closing, the look. It’s rooforama! And it’s a good, quick, and recommended read.

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Kenneth is the name of the guy whose Turbo X SportCombi was featured here earlier today. I also showed a photo of the fantastic keyring that Saab are giving Turbo X owners when they take delivery of the car.

I’d just like to say that right at this moment, I’d like to be Kenneth.

He just dropped me a note to say that today he’s jumping into his Saab Turbo X and driving it to Trollhattan. Upon arriving there he’ll go to the Saab Museum and see all of Saab’s concept cars, which are being shown together in the one place for the first time.

That sounds like a pretty good day to me. It’s good to be Kenneth, eh?

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We haven’t seen nor heard much of the Saab Performance Team in recent times.

There’s an album on Flickr showing them a few days ago in Beijing and using 9-5s as well as 9-3s.

Saab Performance Team

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I hope you’re having a great weekend. My Carlton Football Club had a resounding win last night, so I’m all smiles.

I’m heading out this weekend to take some final photos of the WRX. I plan on handing it back this week as well as writing up a series of entries on what has been an interesting Rexperience.

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We had former Saab design chief Bjorn Envall drop by in comments a few days ago.

This morning his younger brother Anders joined us. Have a look at what he does in his spare time!!

Caravan Racing?!

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Muy Caliente: Saab Performance Team goes MY 2008 in Mexico!

If you’ve got a minute and a half to spare (well, duh, obviously you do or you wouldn’t be here) enjoy this little snippet of the Saab Performance Team newly outfitted with 2008 Saab 9-3′s. They are always impressive, and the new cars look good on them.

Muchas gracias to Robin for the link! Click on the pic to go to the Univision website to watch.

Saab Performance Team 2008

Saab Performance Team OOPS!

As brilliant as they are, event the Saab Performance Team have an off day every now and then.

Robin M tracked down this photo and unfortuately I’ve cleared the email so I’m not sure where he got it from.

I got most of the performance on video (thanks Rickard!), though from the angle we were on it was difficult to see this incident (plus we were running out of tape so it was switched off when this happened).

It was caught on tape, however, by Joe in Malta.

Obviously the person who shot this photo had a really good angle on the incident!

Saab Performance Team