Tag Archives: Motorsport

Grense Rally in Trollhattan

September 25, 2011 10:56 Line

By: Swade

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Not so much a Saab event, but a Trollhattan event….. Last night I popped up to the Saab Museum, which was the start and finish point for the Grense Rallyt, a smaller regularity rally. There were only 18 vehicles in …
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Saab Monte Carlo takes record at Bonneville Speed Week

August 30, 2011 16:23 Line

By: Swade

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This is pretty exciting stuff for a Saab nut. I’m always keen to see how people run their older Saabs and it always puts a smile on my face when I see something like this. My first correspondence with Bertil …
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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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2011 Midnight Sun Rally – Regularity Class

July 26, 2011 13:44 Line

By: Swade

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The 2011 Midnight Sun Rally ended just over a week ago and there were a lot of Saabs entered in the event. If you haven’t seen the Midnight Sun Rally photo album yet, then make sure you click on that …
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Saabs at the 2011 Midnight Sun Rally

July 25, 2011 15:04 Line

By: Swade

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I’ve got a swag of photos from the Midnight Sun Rally, held around Västerås last weekend. I don’t have any of the cars on the dirt, though. I only shot video there, which I’ll post very soon. These stills were …
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Saab 900 – Climb to the clouds

June 28, 2011 1:30 Line

By: Swade

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A few days ago, I posted an article here on Inside Saab, written by a friend of mine in Boston named Pierre Belperron (a guy I’ve previously referred to as “the second-hardest working man in all Saabdom” due to his …
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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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