Tag Archives: Mille Miglia

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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Mille Miglia Photo Exhibition at the Saab Museum

May 26, 2011 20:14 Line

By: Swade

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Posted to the events page…… The Saab Car Museum in Trollhättan will host a special photo exhibition on the 2011 Mille Miglia from Saturday, May 28 until Monday, June 6. The exhibition will feature the two vehicles (still with Italian …
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Saab at the 2011 Mille Miglia

May 20, 2011 9:09 Line

By: Swade

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Trollhättan, Sweden: The Mille Miglia is one of the highlights of the year for any car enthusiast. Fantastic cars, fantastic scenery and fantastic people. And at Saab Automobile, we live cars, so naturally we again competed in this year’s event …
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Saab at Mille Miglia – a fan’s view

May 19, 2011 17:53 Line

By: Swade

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We’ll have some material on the Mille Miglia from the inside perspective tomorrow. Today, though, I’d like to draw your attention to an absolutely brilliant collection of photos from the Mille Miglia, taken by some Saab fans in Italy. Saabnews.it …
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2011 Mille Miglia complete – all three Saabs finish the journey

May 16, 2011 0:31 Line

By: Swade

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Peter Backstrom, the director of the Saab Museum here in Trollhattan, oversaw the engine builds for the three Saab 93A’s competing in the 2011 Mille Miglia. Those engines were built not to be outstandingly fast, but to be very, very …
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Mille Miglia photo and video update

May 15, 2011 9:11 Line

By: Swade

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News from the Mille Miglia has been difficult to come by as we only have a very small team in Italy for the event and they’re almost all involved in either competition or support. It doesn’t help that I’ve been …
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Saab photo update from 2011 Mille Miglia

May 13, 2011 7:27 Line

By: Swade

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I don’t have any details or stories to share, but it certainly looks like the team at Mille Miglia is having a good time. The cars and the scenery both look breathtaking. The following photos just arrived in my inbox, …
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Saabosphere – links we enjoyed this week

May 13, 2011 0:28 Line

By: Swade

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Let’s be honest. It’s a tough week to be writing about enjoyable links. But there are some good stories out there, so let’s take a look at them before I head off to the airport to return back to Saab …
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Video: 2011 Mille Miglia teaser

May 11, 2011 6:58 Line

By: Swade

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We take this opportunity to wish the best to the three Saab entrants in the 2011 Mille Miglia historic rally in Italy: Mats Fägerhag, Saab Automobile’s Vice President Vehicle Product Development, with Peter Bäckström, Director of the Saab Museum Hans …
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Restoration of a Saab 93A Mille Miglia racer

May 10, 2011 5:01 Line

By: Swade

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There will be three Saab 93A’s running in this year’s Mille Miglia. One of the cars has been restored in Belgium and will be driven by senior staff from Saab’s Belgian importer, Behermans. The other two belong to Saab. The …
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