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There has been an article written by Mr Ulf Nilsson published by the evening paper Expressen on the 12th of april. Ulf used to drive a SAAB 9000 but no more SAAB for him, which is pretty obvious in his writing. Ulf Nilsson is an established writer for Expressen and has been so for many years. So with many years of experience he should know the basic things of journalism that even I know as an amateur, that you only publish facts or opinions that you can back up with facts… well apparently not…

In this article Ulf starts to point out: “you can not mention the word quality and Saab on the same day, hardly the same month, said expressens car expert Håkan Matson” Ulf agrees fully and proudly tells us that he will soon pick up his second BMW. He also claims in his article that many people in Sweden feels the same way and uses last years sales figures as a reference to his opinion.

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Today has been a day of silence, but according to Swedish Radio P4, Lars Carlström, who is representing the Vlandimir Antonov, claimed an answer about financing could arrive later today!

On other news a swedish left-wing politician born and raised in Trollhättan, who’s parents work at SAAB are starting to raise serious questions about the Government’s work with the SAAB issue.

I know this has absolutely nothing to do with SAAB but since I am a pilot, I just had to share this one with you… This time its an Airbus A380 from AirFrance that is taxiing on JFK last monday. A CRJ100 had been pushed back a bit too far and this is what happened…

It’s a good example of what could happen when the ones in control do not have control… The pilots in the CRJ depend 100% on the ground crew to push them back to a certain point. In this case they had pushed them a bit too far and thus were in the way of the A380 that came driving down the yellow taxi-way. If the CRJ had been where it was supposed to be this would never have happened. The A380′s wing would have cleared the CRJ by at least 5 meters.

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Press release
SAAB AUTOMOBILE CONTINUES TO WORK ON SECURING ITS SHORT AND MEDIUM TERM FUNDING
Zeewolde, The Netherlands, 12 April 2011 – Spyker Cars N.V. (Spyker) announces that Saab Automobile AB (Saab Automobile) continues to work on its short and medium term funding.
Spyker and Saab Automobile are currently in discussion with several parties to secure additional short and medium term funding for Saab Automobile. The Swedish National Debt Office (NDO) has been requested to release its pledge in the shares of Saab Automobile Property AB in order to enable Saab Automobile to use this property to secure further funding. This is one of the funding scenario’s Saab Automobile is currently working on. The outcome of the discussions is still not certain and subject to the release of the NDO. Spyker expects to be able to come with more details before Thursday 14 April 2011.
The additional liquidity that Spyker and Saab Automobile expect to secure is required to start up production, realise Saab Automobile’s business plan during 2011 which includes launches of the new 9-4X cross-over and the all new 9-5 SportCombi in the coming months.
Saab Automobile has temporarily halted its production. With additional funding in place to resolve outstanding payment issues with its suppliers Saab Automobile expects it will be able to resume normal production within a week from the receipt of funds.
For further information, please contact:
Saab Automobile Press Office Tel: +46 (0)520 279797

Yesterday, Saab Turbo Club of Sweden had a track day at Knutstorp in the south of Sweden. SaabsUnited’s guest reporter Andreas, also known as Sportsedan, was there to cover the event! We have received 282 great photos from him which are online at our picasaweb for you to enjoy… =)

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The SaabsUnited-Days in Trollhättan is getting closer and we need some help from our trusted readers who have some knowledge about graphics. We are proposing a competition where we want you to design a poster for the SU-Days, we will post all proposals here on SaabsUnited and the winner will be chosen by the SU-Crew.

The winner of the competition will get fame and glory but thats not all,… we are, through our good friends at SAAB ANA in Trollhättan, able to offer a prize package as well, consisting of some nice SaabExpressions items that we will send to the winner.

1st prize is:
- Saab Snow Silver Biopower Pen
- Saab Jet Black 9-5 ballpen
- Saab Designed Travel Wallet
- Saab Cable lock
- Saab Trollhättan hat
- Saab Aero cards

2nd prize is:
- Saab Pocket LED light
- Saab Snow Silver Biopower Pen

So what are the rules?
The poster should be made to fit on a normal standard A4 paper (20×29 cm), the font to be used for all text is named Gill Sans, if the poster is printed as portrait or landscape does not matter. There needs to be an area in white where the program may be printed on, which has a width and height of 10×5 cm.

The dates of 14-15th of May needs to be shown and that the location is in Trollhättan.

The poster must be in our hands before the 25th of April. The two winners will be announced on the 1st of may. Send your contribution to saabsunitedcrew@gmail.com and put SU-Poster as a subject.

As you guys may have heard the workers at Saab have been sent home to enjoy the nice weather for two days and are to report back on thursday morning. A group of workers have stayed at Saab to complete unfinished cars, at least 250 cars were completed last friday when new parts arrived from suppliers that had been payed. These cars have now left the factory and are on their way to their happy new owners. Today I watched as truck after truck arrived every 10-20 min delivering parts to Saab, lots of smaller cars from DHL kept rolling in every now and then. During a short period of time today there were 3 lorries carrying new cars to the dealers that left the factory, some of them were 9-5 sedans bound for the US market. There is a lot of activity going on at and around the factory.

I also got to see a brand new beautiful Jet-Black 9-5 SportsCombi… me want!

Most dealers are reporting no delays in the deliveries of cars to their customers which is truly great news!