If you’re interested in advertising at all, I’d encourage you check out Ace of Admen. Ace of Admen is a new blog from semi-retired ad man, Curvin O’Rielly. Curvin’s name will be familiar to some Saab folks out there. He worked on some early Saab ads during Bob Sinclair’s tenure as chief of Saab USA. He also had some great […]
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This is one of the saddest things I’ve read about the demise of Saab Automobile in recent times. Many of you would know that some of Saab’s classic vehicles from the US were sold recently. Thankfully, those cars ended up in good hands and should be preserved for years to come. You can read more on the collection and it’s
I haven’t seen it yet – I’ll employ some trickery and watch it within the next few days – but Top Gear’s Saab special has just been shown on the BBC. J Fan has already written the following in comments here: Well, I enjoyed that. It was never going to be a straightforward praise for Saab, but, by Top Gear
Wonderful ponderance of a button that has stumped more than one 99 owner over the years….. —— PLUS……. from the Saab Owners Club GB: Earlier this week and at the last minute I was contacted by the Top Gear producers to ask me if it was possible to attend the studio filming along with my car and one other. We
As some of you may have already heard, there will be a Saab feature story on Top Gear this weekend. It’s not a Saab vehicle review, of course. Instead, Messrs Clarkson and May drive a number of historic and modern Saabs, and I assume they then proceed to analyse the company’s recent demise. It might not be nice in parts,
I know that I’m getting older. Our bathroom mirror tells me so every morning. I have to remind the mirror that it shouldn’t gloat, because it’s always 30 minutes behind the message I get from my back when I get out of bed. Despite my premature ageing, I’ve always been pretty young on the roads. I consider myself a Driver
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I’ve just read over at Saabs United that “an automaker from Munich” might be sniffing around Saab with a view to buying the company. Munich, of course, means BMW. Let me assert straight away that this is the first I’ve heard of this. I no longer have regular correspondence with the goings-on at Saab and I can’t speak to the
If my father were still alive, he would have been 79 years old today. He passed away in 1985 from a cancer that probably would have been relatively easy to treat in 2012. In fact, it probably should have been treated back then. He was first diagnosed with a tumour in March 1985, which was ‘successfully’ removed and declared to
Ciao! Today in Hobart, the Italian community put on their annual Festa Italia and the one car club I’m still a paid member of, Club Motori Italia, were asked to provide some Italian rolling stock to beautify the street. Although I don’t have an Italian car anymore, I figured it might be fun to go along, if only just to
That website work I mentioned a few days ago? It’s now online. Over the last few weeks I’ve had the good fortune of being able to work with the guys from Koenigsegg on their new website, which went live last night. They’ve launched the new site as a prelude to them unveiling some new 2013 product at the Geneva Motor
Consider this kind of like the old TS/SU Snippets posts…. —— It’s been a week since I’ve last blogged. I think this is quite possibly the longest unenforced break that I’ve had from writing in seven years. It felt a little strange, yet somehow quite relaxing. That’s not to say I’ve been idle the whole week. Not at all! I’ve
