by TimR
June 18, 2011 in Uncategorized
All the Saab workers are to return to work in the beginning of next week. However it is still unclear wether or not the production will be started up. Early rumors say that there might not be any production at all until after midsummer which is on friday, however this is nothing that we can confirm at the moment.
by TimR
June 18, 2011 in test drive
On the 9th of June, 2011, I got to borrow a 9-3 2,0T BioPower Aero Grffin Convertible. The reporting of the test-drive was performed in 10 different updates spanning over 5 days, this is all those parts merged together into one big post.
by TimR
June 18, 2011 in Uncategorized
TTELA reports (original article here) that Saab has payed all of its taxes on time. Some media reported that Saab had a tax debt of 35 million SEK which according to the Swedish Tax Authorities is not true. The money was payed friday afternoon.
by TimR
June 18, 2011 in Uncategorized
Here is a really nice car! It belongs to Mattias in Trollhättan. Its a 9-5 Vector from 2006, has about 180’000 km on the meter with built in navigation, ventilated seats, aero steeringwheel, 18 inch wheels, wood panels, Hirsch tuned engine and twin exhaust! and of course a SaabsUnited plateholder! =)
by TimR
June 17, 2011 in Editorial
At least not for the US market. There has been a lot of talk about a smaller version of a Saab. Lots of people seem to want it but what is the real value for Saab? Considering that Volvo has a full range of cars from the small C30 up to the huge XC90 one would think that they are able to sell a car to anyone everywhere. Well it doesn’t look that way. According to this mornings editorial contributions, Volvo’s S40 and V50 series are selling so poorly in the US that Volvo has decided to stop the sales of these cars in the US market completely. With the V50 being equal to the 9-3 SportsCombi in size, I find it pretty amazing that Saab manages to sell a product in this category and Volvo does not. Having tried the V50 and found it to be an excellent car, not as good as a 9-3, but still a very good car this is pretty staggering news to me…
by TimR
June 17, 2011 in News
On Sunday which is Father’s day in the US, if you really want to make your father happy perhaps this is something to try out!. Anybody interested can meet the group Sunday morning at 11:15 at the Shell Filling station located at: by TimR
June 17, 2011 in Uncategorized
It’s great fun for us that so many have decided to support SaabsUnited and are driving arround with a plateholder that has the address of the website on it 
The first batch of plateholders has now been sold out and we are awaiting the next shipment from our supplier.
The last one ended up on the 9-5 I took delivery of 5 days ago
by TimR
June 17, 2011 in Uncategorized
Maud Olofsson has called a press-conference at 14.15 in which she will give her resignation.
by Red J
June 17, 2011 in News
Semcon’s CEO, Mr. Kjell Nilsson, seems quite optimistic on SAAB, and yesterday he made this declaration to ttela.se
- I think we have a [more]clear picture of how the [real estate] transaction looks like on Monday, and then a production start again after midsummer. It will be tough two or three months but then I think the deal with the Chinese will be ready and then it will be solved.
by Red J
June 16, 2011 in News
Saab UK had PR campaign were they called the 119g 9-3 TTiD 180 the Zero Hero because the Vehicle Excise Duty (the vehicle taxes) was equal to zero because of the low CO2 value.
Today Saab UK has presented the new Zero Hero, the Saab 9-5 TiD4 MY 12, with manual transmission. It will also, like the 9-3 TTiD, be exempted of VED because of the low CO2 figures, 125 for the Saloon and 128 g/km for the SportWagon.
by Jeff
June 16, 2011 in News
Saab UK issued a press release detailing the new specifications and changes for the 2012 9-5. Click past the break to hear all about them.
by RobinM
June 16, 2011 in News
News just in from Saab
The Saab 9-5 Sedan has earned the highest rating for crashworthiness in the United States. The “Top Safety Pick” is awarded by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS, www.iihs.org), a research and communications organization funded by auto insurers in the US.
by TimR
June 16, 2011 in Uncategorized
Joachim Lind, CEO of ANA, has today accepted the award given by Gröna Bilister (The Swedish Association of Green Motorists) who awarded the Saab 9-3 Tri-Fuel the prize of best pick by Motor Journalists in Sweden. This is a very important award for ANA, SAAB and the environment.
As stated before this car is built by ANA and is not affected in anyway by the production stand-still at Saab. A number of cars have been sold to various companies and organizations around Sweden who enjoy the cars very much. This award is a tribute to the great people at ANA and Saab for their amazing knowledge and work. This award could also help to boost sales for Saab and lead the way of environmental friendly technology.
by TimR
June 16, 2011 in News
Gröna Bilister (Green Motorists) holds a competition each year with several different categories. One of the categories is best environmental car, last year Saab came in second place with it’s tri-fuel 9-3, back then the car was not in production and was more a concept. This year they grabbed first place, the car has been produced and sold and is being used on the roads by a number of companies!
Joachim Lind CEO at ANA who was responsible for the development of the car together with Saab was very happy about this. He will accept an award in Gothenburg at 13:30 today.
by TimR
June 15, 2011 in Uncategorized
According to GT.se (original article here) Victor Muller was supposed to have held a speech at an event where a majority of the Swedish Auto industry is gathered but Victor has chosen to cancel the speech. The reason being that he is busy with other things…
Comment: I do not blame him! I understand fully that he has more important things to do and considering who the media has treated Saab and the people at Saab during the past months it would only be a media storm of questions going after him rather than focusing on what he actually talked about!
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