Monthly Archives: May 2011

My car hunt is over….

May 31, 2011 20:12 Line

By: Swade

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As well as covering the corporate stuff on this website, I’ve also been covering a little of my personal journey as an Australian Saab fan relocating to Sweden and getting to grips with life at Saab. One of my personal …
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Skaters invade Saab for commercial shoot

May 31, 2011 15:16 Line

By: Swade

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This is nothing car related, but it’s interesting just to see the other things go on here from time to time. If I asked you to guess the names of guys you’d find in the crash test building here at …
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Saabosphere – Saab links we liked last week

May 30, 2011 21:51 Line

By: Swade

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I’m going to start this week’s Saabosphere with a link from this very same website. I’ll do that because it’s important for those who didn’t all the commotion on Friday to know that Saab has indeed re-started production after a …
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Saab 9-5 Combis of different colors

May 30, 2011 11:24 Line

By: Swade

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Hey all. I’ve spent the morning having my mind blown to pieces looking at some electrical integration setups that are used for testing cars, and testing changes to cars (from the electronics point of view). More on that later. Whilst …
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Poll: How long have you been a Saab owner?

May 29, 2011 10:29 Line

By: Swade

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In this week’s poll, I’m interested to find out whether you’re new to Saab, or if you’ve owned Saabs for a long time. We know that we have a lot of passionate long-term Saab fans out there, but it would …
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Notes from the re-start of production at Saab

May 28, 2011 8:35 Line

By: Swade

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So you’ve seen the press release and the video, but what about the other stuff? Saab got production underway Friday after a seven week halt and there was a real upbeat spirit about the place. For me, it was especially …
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Video: Saab re-start production at the Trollhattan plant

May 28, 2011 0:35 Line

By: Swade

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I’ve already shown my own rather informal video of this event, featuring the cars coming off the production line. Here’s the official company video featuring remarks from Saab’s VP, Purchasing and Manufacturing, Gunnar Brunius, as well as Saab’s Chairman and …
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Video – Production re-start at Saab

May 27, 2011 12:22 Line

By: Swade

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Around 10am and onwards this morning…… –

Saab Automobile Restarts Production

May 27, 2011 10:48 Line

By: Swade

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• First cars roll off Trollhättan production line since April 6 • Order bank of over 6,500 cars for Trollhättan factory, over 8,000 cars worldwide Trollhättan, Sweden: Saab Automobile today restarted production at its production facility in Trollhättan. A first …
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Ready for a re-start

May 27, 2011 9:44 Line

By: Swade

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It’s grey and raining in Trollhattan today, but you can’t wipe the smile from people’s faces around here. We’re about to start building cars again. It’s what we do and it’s hurt that we haven’t been able to do it …
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