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If you visit the Saab Museum in Trollhattan in April, don't be alarmed when you see a Saab 92 in the wind tunnel where the UrSaab usually can be found. The UrSaab is displayed at the Flygvapenmuseum in Linköping in April.

This year marks 75 years since Saab was formed. The museum has a special exhibition and an audio tour for their Saab aircraft. The exhibition includes a Saab Safir from their collections and throughout the month of April, you have a unique opportunity to see the UrSaab, the very first car that Saab made.

Saab was established in 1937 when there was a need for Sweden to build their air defense. They did not want to rely ...

From the front dust jacket:

Launched in the late 1960s, the Saab 99 was a highly distinctive car from from a highly individual manufacturer. Designed as a medium-sized, and medium-priced family car building on the success of the 92-96 cars., the 99 scored a second substantial success for the Swedish maker. Well designed, reliable and, perhaps more than anything, noticeably different from its competition, the new car sold well and formed the mainstay of the company's output for over ten years. But when its successor, the 900, was conceived it was decided that the company should move into the executive market. Re-pitched for the wealthier buyer, the 900 provided the company with success in this lucrative sector. ...

The man who made the turbo engine commercially feasible on a large scale, Per Gillbrand, was awarded the Clarence von Rosen medal at a ceremony in Stockholm over the weekend.

A touched receiver celebrated the award with a test drive with his 1:4 scale Bugatti car on the white canvas, that he had built himself. It was very popular among the crowd when the smoke from the engine's 8 cylinders flew up among the chandeliers in the main hall!

Per Gillbrand has worked for the Swedish automotive industry during his career. He started as an employee at Volvo as a ...

Updated: Ally wins court case to liquidate 950 Saabs

SaabWorld reported earlier about new Saabs being held in US ports. There are 151 brand new Saabs stored in Port Hueneme, California. Ally Financial was seeking court approval to take control of these 151 Saabs.

There are some pictures on Foundourownroad.com showing many Saabs that are stuck at the port in Newark, New Jersey. According to the forum, 100-200 new Saabs are parked outside and possibly even more inside a storage building.
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During the re-opening of the Saabmuseum, Peter "Poker" Wallenberg revealed that his team is going to run the fourth Saab 9-3 In TTA this year, with the driver Daniel Haglöf from Borlänge Sweden.

Peter Wallenbergs team is working close with Flash engineering, and the team is going to race under the the name: PWR Racing/Team Tidö.
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Article from TTELA, translated through Google.

TROLLHÄTTAN

In beautiful spring sunshine, the crowds flocked to the Saab Museum, which re-opened its doors on Saturday. To many people's delight.

- It's like coming to Mecca. This is naturally a great honor, 'said Henry Tung Strom, vice chairman of the Swedish Saab Club.

He had come all the way from Östersund to attend the festivities at the Saab Museum.

- Feels great to be able to hold it together like this, not the cars disappear. It's a great deal of modern history. And it's fun when so many come here and look, there will be a meeting between the generations.

Among the guests were also labeled the city's great ...

Information from YouTube:

This is the first ever test of the Saab 9-3 TTA, built for team Flash Engineering and Team Tidö for the Swedish TTA - Racing Elite League 2012.

The test was a first run, at the Alés track in France, where the front was not completed, the final car is going to look different.
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The Saab Museum in Trollhattan has a new website and they posted some basic information. It will re-open Saturday March 24th after it has been closed since the end of December. It is great to see the collection has been saved and will be open tot he public again.

Saab Car Museum
Åkerssjövägen 18
SE-461 29 Trollhättan
Sweden
Phone +46 520 289 440
saab.carmuseum@innovatum.se

Opening times 2012:
March 24 - June 17: Tuesday-Sunday 11.00-16.00
Closed week 25: June 18- June 24
June 25 - August 19: Monday-Sunday 09.00-17.00
August 21- December 22: Tuesday-Sunday 11.00-16.00

Website: http://www.saabcarmuseum.se/
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From the Classic & Performance Cars website columnist Jay Leno.



March 2012

It's sad that Saab is no longer with us, but with the quirkiness 'ironed out' what was the point?

I just heard on the radio today that Saab will no longer warranty any of the cars it sells in North America, which is pretty much a death knell. I’d like to think Saab can survive but it’s not looking positive.

And I have to admit that I’m not sure what Saab stands for anymore. When I was a kid it was a unique brand, unlike any other car maker out there. I’ll never forget my first ride in a Saab; I was in high school and a friend’s mother had an old three-cylinder ...

Registration is up now and can be found at the following site.

https://www.eventville.com/Catalog/E...ventId=1009326

For the most part everything is going to be the same as last year with the exception of two changes.

The badge fee for this year will be increasing to $20. No this is not to send those of us at the Central Penn Saab Club to Vegas for a weekend or anything like that. As you can expect, with the current state of the Saab brand, finding sponsors to help cover our costs is difficult to say the least. We have a few people on board, but seeing ...

It is just over three months ago, Victor Muller, Saab's former CEO, was forced to file for bankruptcy to Vänersborg.

It was the end of Saab.

From your viewpoint, why did Saab in bankruptcy?

- We had no more opportunities. When General Motors said they did not want to negotiate with Youngman, when it was over.

How was months before Saab filed for bankruptcy?

- Tougher than anything I experienced before in my life. We just kept fighting, we had no choice. But eventually collide with a wall, we. When it was over.

- The unpaid wages was extremely tough not being able to pay. The big reason we filed for bankruptcy was because the employees would not have to sit without their wages over Christmas last year. It had been awful, says Muller.

When you look back in time with Saab, what do you think?

- It was a time without winners. It was tough for us, the employees, suppliers ... all stages. I regret that we failed ...

Translation through Google.



Today, three months after Saab's bankruptcy, emerges Victor Muller for the first time in public again at a conference in Stockholm. TTELA got an exclusive interview with him yesterday about life after Saab, the opportunity to spend time with family and plans for Spyker. It's cold at Arlanda airport and Victor Muller tighten the scarf around the neck.

- It really is a temperature difference between Sweden and Mallorca. Has it been so cold all the time?

When we packed ourselves into the car for the journey to the ...

Information from the eBay listing:



1970 SAAB 96 V4 'Baja T-Car '
Factory Rally Homologation Special
1 of 50!!!

VIN 96573114

The Classic Car Gallery is proud to offer this rare and unusual 1970 SAAB 96 V4 FACTORY RALLY HOMOLOGATION SPECIAL “T-CAR”. She is a stunning car, and draws a crowd wherever she goes!!!

It is known that SAAB exported 150 'Baja T-CARS' as DEALER ONLY promotional cars. They were dubbed T-CARS. These cars had the strengthened bodies and look of the rally cars, but the engine and transmission from a stock 96. Only 50 INTERNATIONAL BLAZE ORANGE cars were made. THIS IS THOUGHT TO BE THE ONLY REMAINING CAR!!! She received a lengthy examination by noted SAAB rally car builder and preparer Garth Ankeny in Portland, OR. He confirmed that the body shell shows all of the hallmarks of a SAAB “T CAR”. Many joints received extra seam-welding as well as additional body reinforcements and bracketry that only the factory bodied competition rally cars received. The motors and transmissions on the “T-CARS” remained stock SAAB 96. This car may be the only one left, and certainly is the finest on the market!!!
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The TTA website published a story about the TTA Saab 9-3 earlier today. There is another picture gallery of a race car that was delivered to Flash Engineering a few months ago.

I contacted Flash Engineering for some more information about this car and quickly received a response from Johan Meissner, the Press Manager for the company based in Karlstad, Sweden:
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Saab is going to live on despite the recent receivership with four newly developed Saab 9-3 in the TTA – Racing Elite League in 2012. Flash Engineering and Team Tidö launches a tribute to Saab’s journey during the years in the form of Tribute2Saab in this year’s Swedish Racing Elite League.

Jan “Flash” Nilsson, Mattias Andersson, Linus Ohlsson and a yet to be revealed driver is going to represent Saab on the Swedish tracks and take on the fight with Volvo, BMW and Citroën in the Racing Elite League.

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Production at the Saab factory in Trollhättan was halted on April 6 2011 after suppliers stopped their deliveries of parts. Fortunately, the production stop did not last very long and the manufacturing lines started moving again at the end of May. It was quite an exciting time because everybody thought all problems were solved and Saab was going to make cars again for a long time.

Production of Saab cars was interrupted again at the beginning of June because of a lack of parts and supplies. This time, the production stop lasted much longer and the factory remained silent from June on. Besides a few short time periods, manufacturing was halted for good and no new Saabs were made until the bankruptcy was announced in December.

Saab introduced a new exterior redesign for the 9-3 for the 2012 model year. The cars manufactured during this short time period in May ...

Another awesome day was spent by the Saab Club Australia Victoria Branch at Attwood (Police) Driver Training complex with around 13 Saabs present (and one infiltrator Porsche!). Good cross section of models from a 1970s 99, two 9000 Aeros, Classic 900, 9-5s, NG900, 9-3s and a TURBOX. I took along my 2002 9-3 Aero again… but alas no pics of that this time as I was driving!

See many more pictures in the regional forum thread: http://saabworld.net/f52/saab-club-a...-2012-a-25407/


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A late model Saab 9-5 is not that unique but this one has an interesting history. It is one of the earliest 9-5 that came of the production line and is the Saab 9-5 Victor Muller picked up at Saab ANA in Trollhattan. It was actually part of the test fleet and number 42 off the production line.

A picture was taken with him and Jan Åke Jonsson just outside the factory about 2 years ago. He drove the car to the Netherlands together with his sons.

Car: 2010 Saab 9-5 Aero Turbo6 Aero Sedan
Color: Granite Grey Metallic
Kilometers: 32.250
License plate: KME 140
Price: SEK 328 900 (about EUR 37.000 - USD 49,000)

The car is offered for sale by BIVA in Uppsala.



From the press release:

Source: Saab February 24, 2010

Proud new owner: Victor ...