Category Archives: Features

11/11/11 – the Saab 9-1 that wasn’t

November 11, 2011 3:51 Line

By: Swade

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Saab have certainly had a decent run with concept cars over the years. I’d have to go back and do the math, but the number of new Saab concepts over the last 10 years or so, starting with the original …
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Saab Preliminary Reorganisation Plan

October 31, 2011 16:02 Line

By: Swade

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The following plan was submitted to the Vanersborg District Court today as the background material for presentation to the Creditors Meeting. It makes for some very interesting reading in all respects, both as a brief historical document (as in…. how …
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We need your Saab images for a Facebook milestone celebration!

October 27, 2011 4:04 Line

By: Swade

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UPDATE: We are now over 99,400 fans and growing. The ETA for 100,000 is somewhere early next week. We’ve already received in excess of 1,000 images for use in the mosaic but we want more!!! I’m preparing two mosaic base …
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New York Times profile Saab Designer, Jason Castriota

October 14, 2011 7:58 Line

By: Swade

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We’re yet to see the full depth of Jason Castriota’s design work for Saab Automobile – a fact not lost in this NY Times profile of Saab’s current design chief. This brief profile ends a little too quickly for my …
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Inside Saab Q&A – The Answers (part 1)

September 30, 2011 13:38 Line

By: Swade

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Earlier this week, we invited readers and Facebook fans to submit questions to Saab for responses. We now have responses for most of those questions, provided below. NOTES: A big proportion of Saab’s future is contingent upon an approval process …
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Inside Saab Q&A – the questions

September 29, 2011 14:05 Line

By: Swade

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My thanks to everyone for sending in your questions for our Q&A offering. It’s been great to see what’s weighing on people’s minds right now and we want to do what we feasibly can to provide answers for you. I’ve …
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Q&A – Saab Automobile and reorganisation

September 27, 2011 14:40 Line

By: Swade

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UPDATE: Thanks to all for your questions so far. Please continue to pass the word around so that friends and other Saab contacts can have the opportunity to pose a question. We are chasing and preparing answers for you right …
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Sixten Sason’s concept Saab – Catharina

August 4, 2011 21:44 Line

By: Swade

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We had a poll recently, on Twitter and Facebook. It posed the Saab Catharina against the Saab 9x concept car. The voters wish was for detailed photos of Catharina. Here she is….. The story of Catharina is pretty well known, …
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Driving a legend – Saab 900 Turbo

August 4, 2011 7:27 Line

By: Swade

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You’ve all most likely seen this image before. It’s one of the better known images of the Saab 900 Turbo. The photo was taken for Saab’s 50th Anniversary marketing campaign, back in 1997. A calendar was made featuring this image …
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2011 Midnight Sun Rally – Full tilt boogie

July 27, 2011 17:46 Line

By: Swade

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A few days ago, I brought you some video footage from the regularity class at the Midnight Sun Rally. That’s where most of the Saabs were featured. Following is a video from the historic class, the flat-out version of the …
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