Comments on: Not quite the Midnight Sun….. http://inside.saab.com/not-quite-the-midnight-sun/ Lorum Ipsum tagline Tue, 27 Dec 2011 02:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Rune Moberg http://inside.saab.com/not-quite-the-midnight-sun/#comment-1349 Rune Moberg Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:02:00 +0000 http://inside.saab.com/?p=1302#comment-1349 I put in an order for our 9-5 as soon as they opened up the orderbook for the Biopower model. MY11 is indeed the first NG 9-5 with Biopower. :) Thanks for helping us drive up to Skellefteå to pick up our car. It turned out to be quite an adventure! And I apologize for screwing up with the midnight sun thing. I assumed it was north of the arctic circle, but as Thilo so correctly pointed out; we needed to go up another inch on the map. Thus the sun disappeared for two hours! :( Incidentally, I have a renewed respect for the 9-5. I've driven my 9000 in the mean time, and as much as I love the 9000, the 9-5 is surreal in e.g. roundabouts. Exiting the roundabout at a speed of more than 60 kph is no problem. The 9000 would start to over-steer slightly at that point (tires squealing and everything) I put in an order for our 9-5 as soon as they opened up the orderbook for the Biopower model. MY11 is indeed the first NG 9-5 with Biopower. :)

Thanks for helping us drive up to Skellefteå to pick up our car. It turned out to be quite an adventure!

And I apologize for screwing up with the midnight sun thing. I assumed it was north of the arctic circle, but as Thilo so correctly pointed out; we needed to go up another inch on the map. Thus the sun disappeared for two hours! :(

Incidentally, I have a renewed respect for the 9-5. I’ve driven my 9000 in the mean time, and as much as I love the 9000, the 9-5 is surreal in e.g. roundabouts. Exiting the roundabout at a speed of more than 60 kph is no problem. The 9000 would start to over-steer slightly at that point (tires squealing and everything)

]]> By: Lisa http://inside.saab.com/not-quite-the-midnight-sun/#comment-1332 Lisa Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:44:00 +0000 http://inside.saab.com/?p=1302#comment-1332 On a bright note, its very nice to hear Avis is renting Saabs!  It will be sweet to drive a Saab to next year's Saab Festival instead of another brand . . . On a bright note, its very nice to hear Avis is renting Saabs!  It will be sweet to drive a Saab to next year’s Saab Festival instead of another brand . . .

]]> By: Anonymous http://inside.saab.com/not-quite-the-midnight-sun/#comment-1326 Anonymous Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:24:00 +0000 http://inside.saab.com/?p=1302#comment-1326 Check your e-mail and give me a call if you have time left over. It's my hometown you're in right now. :) Check your e-mail and give me a call if you have time left over. It’s my hometown you’re in right now. :)

]]> By: Anonymous http://inside.saab.com/not-quite-the-midnight-sun/#comment-1323 Anonymous Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:42:00 +0000 http://inside.saab.com/?p=1302#comment-1323 2011 of course, apologies, I think there was no 2010 biopower... 2011 of course, apologies, I think there was no 2010 biopower…

]]> By: Ruben Snippe http://inside.saab.com/not-quite-the-midnight-sun/#comment-1321 Ruben Snippe Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:56:00 +0000 http://inside.saab.com/?p=1302#comment-1321 Now thàt are the stretches one buys a Saab for! Now thàt are the stretches one buys a Saab for!

]]> By: Anonymous http://inside.saab.com/not-quite-the-midnight-sun/#comment-1320 Anonymous Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:52:00 +0000 http://inside.saab.com/?p=1302#comment-1320 Swade, can I suggest another road back? If you need to relax during those "occational overtaking speeds", the E45 (or Inlandsvägen) is better (no speed cameras the first half of the trip). Of coarse it's a bit narrower and a couple of km longer, but still, those car testing people going north usually take this road. Just tell google map you need to stop by Östersund and you'll gett right back to Trollhättan in no time. Swade, can I suggest another road back?

If you need to relax during those “occational overtaking speeds”, the E45 (or Inlandsvägen) is better (no speed cameras the first half of the trip). Of coarse it’s a bit narrower and a couple of km longer, but still, those car testing people going north usually take this road.
Just tell google map you need to stop by Östersund and you’ll gett right back to Trollhättan in no time.

]]> By: Steven Wade http://inside.saab.com/not-quite-the-midnight-sun/#comment-1317 Steven Wade Mon, 13 Jun 2011 06:07:00 +0000 http://inside.saab.com/?p=1302#comment-1317 I would have guessed 2010, too.  Apologies, Anna.  Must have been an early 2011. I would have guessed 2010, too.  Apologies, Anna.  Must have been an early 2011.

]]> By: Anna Moberg http://inside.saab.com/not-quite-the-midnight-sun/#comment-1316 Anna Moberg Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:23:00 +0000 http://inside.saab.com/?p=1302#comment-1316  Thilo,, It's 2011 9-5  Thilo,, It’s 2011 9-5

]]> By: Anonymous http://inside.saab.com/not-quite-the-midnight-sun/#comment-1313 Anonymous Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:21:00 +0000 http://inside.saab.com/?p=1302#comment-1313 Even without any clouds you could not see the midnight sun in Skellefteå - you have to travel a bit more north ;-) Here in Tromsø no clouds his weekend and a lot of midnight sun :-) You travel back in a blue 2010 9-5 ? Even without any clouds you could not see the midnight sun in Skellefteå – you have to travel a bit more north ;-)

Here in Tromsø no clouds his weekend and a lot of midnight sun :-) You travel back in a blue 2010 9-5 ?

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