Photo Credit: Scanpix Victor Muller of Spyker Cars has recently returned to Stockholm, Sweden on Thursday and plans on completing the Saab sale from GM transaction by Tuesday the 23rd according to Sweden’s Dagen’s Nyheter. Saab History also followed up on this report and confirmed it with Mr...

Photo Credit: Spyker Cars NV Victor Muller, the CEO of Spyker Cars NV, will be speaking at the North American International Auto Show this Tuesday at 3:05pm as part of the Automotive News World Congress. If you are new to the entire ongoing sale process with Saab Automobile, it should be...

Photo Credit: Saab History Trollhattan’s TTELA news organization reports that the GM Board meeting will continue throughout Tuesday. At some point later today there may be a statement issued by GM for the press according to their news relations officer Tom Wilkinson, but as of now, there has...

The New York Times & Bloomberg report that GM will be holding a board meeting next Tuesday, December 1st where they will ultimately decide the fate of Saab Automobile. Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) — GM's board will review the future of the bankrupt unit at a Dec. 1 meeting, said the person, who asked...

Another groovy vintage Saab ad, spotted on Flickr: Here’s the text. Click to enarge or just view the large version in all it’s glory. —— The Bologna Motor Show is set to start in early December, and Saab will be showing it’s 2009 Griffin edition Saab 9-5s at the show. Another...

All you Los Angelinos will probably know already that the LA Auto Show is only 10 days away. It runs from November 21 to November 30. The Saab 9-X Air will be in attendance, and therefore, so should you. —— Many of you helped out one of our Aussie Saab nuts last weekend. PT was trying...

Saab art. There’s not enough of it, is there? So here’s some from one of Gripen’s mates, Kyu Kwon. I’ve mentioned Kyu on this site before, back during Saab’s 60th Anniversary celebrations in San Diego, where he met Erik Carlsson for the second time; the first was back in his native Korea...

Car design, part I I have a big bad yearning for a Porsche at the moment. This one, actually. I definitely don’t have a yearning for the Panamera. If only Porsche could stop people from seeing it from the rear. The Panamera is proving the rule, just like the Mini SUV did, that you can’t...

I’m still away, so access is sporadic at best. I’ve just been scouring the web, though, and here’s the best that I can bring. And there’s some that I can’t without seeming petty and picky, but suffice to say there’s some real nutty stuff going on in the automotive blogosphere right now. ——...

RJ has come up with a fun idea for you harcore GoogleMappers out there. How many Saabs can we spot on streetview? Maybe we need to refine it a little and look for rare Saabs. Any suggestions? Here’s a 900/9-3 I found on Chapel Street, in Melbourne. Took about 5 minutes, though I imagine...

Hey! It’s Tuesday where I live. I can’t help it you guys are always having to play catch-up —— Whilst US Saabers are still celebrating over the arrival of Bluetooth for their phones in 2009, Hyundai are out handing everyone their own asses with a Bluetooth car audio system that can read...

Can you believe it? We have three cars at our house. Two Saabs and an Alfa. And for just one night, the Alfa was the most reliable of the three. Or so I thought. Actually, it turns out the 9000 hadn’t been unreliable at all. It was just parked in an unfortunate manner. Here’s a...

Trollhattan’s local newspaper, TTELA, is either in receipt of some very sensitive information, or they’re speculating their little Swedish butts off! TTELA are saying that since Russelsheim is getting the Opel Astra to build (on Delta) in a sort-of exchange for Trollhattan getting the Saab 9-3...

GWS are holding the monthly pub meet on TUESDAY at the Huntsman Inn, Falfield (Junc 14 M5 on to the A38 towards Thornbury - pub is about 200yds on your right) from 8pm. The pub serves food up till 9pm. http://www.thehuntsman-falfield.co.uk/

I think all 99T enthusiasts will agree that this is the best Saab Owner’s Convention logo ever. Kudos to whoever designed that one. The Saab Owner’s Convention for 2008 is going to be held from August 21-24 at the Deven Commons Center, Devens, MA. Registrations have just opened so if...

I suspect that right now, Eggs n Grits is somewhere between home and the Turbo X driving event that he’ll be attending tomorrow. I told him to have a heck of a time and try his utmost to break one of them!! In the nicest possible way, of course. —— GOOD NEWS!!!! It looks like my Viggen...

As mentioned earlier, I’m out of town on assignment. Posting will be light, but here’s a few snippets and thoughts. —— Spare a thought for we Aussie Saab buyers. Our federal government will pass it’s budget tonight and included in it will be a tax hike on all cars over $57,000. The 25%...

Steve Shannon in a recent interview (from Geneva) as told to TTELA, the local Trollhattan newspaper: <blockquote>Steve Shannon sees some new behavior when people buy a car: - “They choose to go down in size, or alternatively in engine size. Look at midsize sedans as an example...

We’re helping out a team of students from George Washington University as they work on a Saab advertising campaign for the 2008 Saab 9-3, with XWD, for the Boston market. There’s been a few previous posts on this already and I’d like to thank all of you who have helped out so far with your...

Saab Germany are making some advertising moves with big billboard ads appearing in airports in Munich, Frankfurt and Humburg. The billboards went up this month and will hang around for a period of four weeks I wonder how much these cost compared with actually placing a car in there? I’ve...