Griffins have arrived at Ana
July 1, 2011 in News
Saab has delivered four 9-3 Griffins to ANA dealership in Trollhättan. Here is one of them.
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by TimR
by TimR
Used Saab 9-5 Sedan’s
June 19, 2011 in News
Some new 9-5′s from 2010 and 2011 have started to show up on the used cars market. ANA the biggest retailer in Sweden has a couple of 2010′s with a few thousand km’s on the meter and a big bunch of brand new 2011′s with 0 km’s on the meter that they are now selling out for a very good price! The reason for the sale is to make room for the new 2012 models that are on the way in. One used car in particular that caught my attention was this one:
by Tompa
The beauty of nature, Saab style
May 30, 2011 in Uncategorized
The Saab 9-3SC 1,8t Biopower Biogas by ANA Specialbilar
Some days ago I issued a teaser of an article coming up later in the week regarding the Saab 9-3 Trifuel. Well sorry I could not stick to that promise, but now here is the “more”. And to my defence… It´s still withIn a week 
Oooh, I love talking product!
More after the jump…
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by Tompa
I’ve got gas! A SaabsUnited Test Drive
May 24, 2011 in Uncategorized
Sorry but I just couldn´t resist that headline.
Why? Well because of the car I picked up today Courtesy of ANA Trollhättan and Special Vehicles section ANA Specialbilar….
….The Saab 9-3SC BioPower Biogas TriFuel … In Black
by RobinM
SU meeting day 1, summary from a Fan.
May 15, 2011 in News
It seams that everybody in Trollhattan had a very good day today.
One SU fan who went along to ANA sent us these words and a few pictures.
Thank you Thomas
by TimR
SaabsUnited Exclusive: Police Car production Video
May 11, 2011 in Saabology
Here is a nice video that I shot during a visit to ANA specialbilar where Martin Schmidmeir, Workshop-Manager gives a presentation of both a striped and civil police car. He explains the construction in great detail! To be honest, I would almost be happy to be stopped by one of those cars =P
A big thank you to Martin Schmidmeir and Alf Persson at ANA Specialbilar for the visit and for making this great presentation for SaabsUnited! We hope to see you guys again very soon! =)
by Swade
Thursday Snippets
February 3, 2011 in Saabology
I have a couple of massive work days coming up, so things might slow down a little.
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Thanks to all who wrote to me with regards to accommodation in Geneva.
We have double good news to report – it looks like both RedJ and I will be going to the show (there was some doubt about being able to get RedJ a pass, but we’ve had some positive news there) and it looks like we’ve both got accommodation sorted as well.
Again, many thanks to the many people who wrote, offering advice and assistance.
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How tough is it selling cars in the northern winter?
Saabs might have great winter driving characteristics and be quite appealing in that regard, but people have got to actually get to the dealership to look them over.
This is New Salem Saab this morning.
They keep plowing and the snow keeps falling. As Darryl said to me just now via email – fun for the boys (his twin sons), not so much fun for business.
I hope these poor conditions can lift soon.
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GMInside News report that the Cadillac SRX is getting a 3.6 non-turbo to replace the 2.8T. In fact, the 3.6 might replace the 3.0V6 engine as well and be the only lump available.
Saab will be sticking with the 3.0V6 and 2.8T lineup.
Thanks Charles!
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Our mates at ANA Specialbilar are working on a new police car for the Swedish authorities, based on the new Saab 9-5.
Great news!
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From Autoblog….where they’re playing with backwards cars.
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Saab always have a great looking stand at any motor show, and now their models will be blinging it up a little more with some Saab themed jewellery:
Saab builds on its brand – with jewelry. Specially-made necklaces and earrings to adorn the staff at the upcoming motor shows.
With the help of designer Helen Berggren, Saab has developed a series of jewelry that will reflect the Trollhättan-producer’s identity.
- Together with Helen, we chose to do a combination jewelry with a Snowstar and cow elk in discrete plexiglass colors, “says Nina Bergheim, project manager at Saab Exhibitions & Events responsible for Saab’s profile on the international auto shows.
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And finally, this 9-5 Taxi in Stockholm already has 30,000kms on the clock. Pontus L had a word with the driver:
The car was put in traffic in November and until yesterday the driver has made a little bit over 30,000km!! The car have made all these taxi kilometers without any problems or failures what so ever. The driver is very happy with his car and planning to change to the new 95 SC when it is available later this year.
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by Swade
Saab 9-5 crash photos
September 18, 2010 in Saabology
These two cars were displayed at a safety exhibition in Stockholm yesterday. Our historic rally team guru, Jörgen T, was there and captured these images.
The cars were crashed at 60km/h with a 50% offset.
It looks like there’s an emergency vehicle from ANA Specialbilar in there as well….
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by Swade
Saab 9-3 Biogas model for Sweden
June 2, 2010 in News
We first heard about the possibility of a Biogas version of the Saab 9-3 back in October last year. Back then, it was shown at a conference in Gothenberg as a test vehicle only.
The car has now been driven by Auto Motor and Sport, who also provide some pricing information about the car in the following article, provided by Carl-Henrik via email:
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Saab 9-3 SportCombi TriFuel: Three in one
Our man on the west coast, Thomas Berggren, has test driven the new multi-fuel car 9-3 SportCombi TriFuel. Three different types of fuel in one car. It arrives much funnier news from Saab now!
AMS: Hello! You drive something that is called “TriFuel” – what does that mean?
TB: Well, it means that it can run on petrol, E85, and biogas. It has a normal fuel tank on 61 litre, but also a gas tank on 102 litre that can take 24 normal cubic metres of gas.
AMS: Can you fit so many tanks in the car?
TB: This is an “after conversion”, just like Volvo has done with their V70, and because of that it steals some of the space from the cargo compartment. The cargo floor is about 100 mm higher.
AMS: How does it work when you drive, can you choose petrol on your own?
TB: Yes, you can. With a small button on the dashboard you can choose type of fuel. When it is cold the cars starts on liquid fuel, that is handled automatic. Later when the engine is warm you can drive on gas if you want, and of course you can change while on the move. Saab is thinking about making the car to choose the biogas as primary fuel, but so far the driver has to make that choise on her own.
AMS: How is it with milage?
TB: 61 litre gives a normal milage for a SportCombi, but then you can add 24 cubic metres of biogas, so totally you have a milage of about 900 – 1000 km. Then you have used up all fuel and it’s a good time to find a gas station.
AMS: Is it any fun with it?
TB: Yes, Saab sticks to their strategy that it should be valuable/profitable in regards of driver-happiness when it comes to bio-fuels. With petrol the car has 150 hp, with E85 it is 175 hp, and with biogas it is also 175 hp. This in spite of both ethanol and biogas has a lower energy-factor than petrol
AMS: What does it cost?
TB: This one costs 304.900 Skr ( = 31790 EUR / 39.040 USD, exchange rate of today), which is 40.000 Skr ( = 4170 EUR / 5120 USD ) + VAT more than a BioPower-model. The conversion is made by Saab ANA in Trollhättan and is sold by Saab dealers.
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And as per the October story….
- The conversion will be done by ANA in Trollhattan
- The car loses some luggage space, around 10cm in depth
- The range of the car is effectively raised by around 200km.
- This is not a vehicle that will have widespread appeal straight away as access to biogas is limited. There are plans for around 70 biogas filling stations in Sweden by 2012.
From other sources, it seems a Swedish company called BRC might be hooked up with ANA in this conversion business. They’ve been working with converting Volvos for some time and also had a hand in building this BioGas powered racing Saab for the Swedish Touring Car Championship.
Click here to see ANA’s own (short) page on the BioGas Saab 9-3.
by Swade
Introducing Saab 9-5 number 483,589
February 13, 2010 in Saabology
There were 483,593 Saab 9-5s manufactured between 1997 and February 1 this year. This is number 483,589. Only four were made after this one, and one of those has gone to the Saab Museum in Trollhattan.
This fifth-last car to roll off the production line has just been purchased by a friend of mine, Tim R, a Trollhattan local by birth but a citizen of the world in his professional life as a commercial pilot.
The car is fully loaded with everything except for inbuilt navigation.
Not only is it the fifth-last of this generation 9-5 to be built, it was also the final Saab 9-5 of this generation to be delivered by ANA, the big Saab dealership in Trollhattan.
This car will join Tim’s magnificent Saab 9-3 Viggen in the garage and I’m sure he’ll be smiling a big wide smile no matter which of his Saabs he’s driving.
Congratulations Tim (and G’day to Johanna as well! Make sure you get a key, too!
by Swade
Monday Night Snippets – small world edition
November 2, 2009 in Saabology
Gasgoo report that Beijing Automotive, who are mostly known for their heavy machinery rather than passenger cars in the Chinese market, are planning to launch their own ‘Beijing’ branded passenger cars next year.
The partner of Daimler AG and Hyundai Motor Co, BAIC will unveil several of its own passenger car models at the Beijing motor show next April, the source said, and plans to begin commercial production later in 2010.
BAIC will revive its own brand named Beijing for the models, which will include medium and high-end sedans, SUVs and hybrid vehicles, according to the source.
The Beijing badge was created in 1958 but graced only a handful of cars due to limited production.
Anyone want to place best on what those medium and high-end sedans look like?
There have been plans mentioned for BAIC to licence Saab’s outgoing 9-5 model and possibly even the previous generation Saab 9-3 for the Chinese domestic market.
Both are very competent cars that could be produced cost effectively there. I guess we’ll have to wait until April to see how that pans out, and how well the plan is received.
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TTELA report that the Projekt Trifuel cars shown at Gothenburg last week have been very well received and that ANA has received significant interest in the cars, mainly from government institutions as the infrastructure is not ready for mainstream consumer use.
The Tri-fuel cars are ones that ANA (the big Saab dealership in Trollhattan) will convert to run on Biogas, which is a methane gas extracted from organic waste. The Biogas tanks will be added to the rear of the car and the cars will maintain their capability to run on gasoline or E85 like a normal Saab BioPower model.
It’s important to note that the project is not one of Saab’s doing, but is an aftermarket initiative by ANA.
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How’s this for a small-world tale?
Via email this morning from TonyVee……
Today I had the extreme pleasure of meeting two of your countrymen. I run a bookstore for a living here in the states and a customer came in a bought some books. He was having trouble getting the change right, at this point he said he was here from Snydey and didn’t understand our money. I told him I sorta had an acquaintance from Tasmania. Well, from that point on we had one helluva conversation about Saabs. He owns a 9-3 Monte Carlo and a 900. We talked about K-Segg, Saab, Volvo, and of course how lovely The Aussie country is.
There were only 50 Monte’s bought into Australia. Mine is #9.
What are the chances the owner of another one would would into a bookstore on the other side of the world and get into a Saab conversation with the owner, who happens to tune in here?
Fantastic!
by Swade
A closer look at the Saab Police Car – part II
October 30, 2009 in Saabology
When I posted my initial entry on building a Saab police car a few days ago, some people asked questions about the engines in the car.
Contrary to some beliefs, there aren’t any secrets about that. It’s just that I didn’t ask in order to write about it here.
Fortunately, the good guys at ANA Specialbilar have a really good website with plenty of information about the cars, including these great images that show (in Swedish) the various features of the cars.
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I did shoot off an email to them asking about engines, and Martin from ANA was kind enough to provide the following:
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All of our police cars have a certain chassi standard witch include 16″ brakes and harder springs and stronger antirollbar.
Saab 9-5 wagon
The most common engine is the 2.3t Biopower, which gives you 210bhp on E85.
On highway/traffic patrol cars they usually choose 2.3T 260bhp regular petrol.
Using the Diesel engine is very unusual. It has 150bhp but then we upgrade it to 175bhp with Hirsch Performance software.
Saab 9-3 Sedan & wagon
The most common version is the 2.0t 200bhp E85.
Some have the TTID 180bhp
Once awhile 2.0t 210bhp or 280bhp V6 XWD
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My thanks to Martin to filling out this information for us.
by Swade
A closer look at a Saab 9-5 police car
October 28, 2009 in Saabology
When I was touring around Trollhattan last month, one of my first stops was at ANA Specialbilar. There are two main facilities here, the recycling center (formerly SDCC) where they take cars to bits and then there’s the custom shop where they do a lot of special builds for various companies and agencies.
Alf and Martin were kind enough to give me a look through a Swedish Polis car. I’m such an exemplary citizen that my chances to see inside one the way some people to do are pretty limited
The cars come to ANA like this – plain white Saab 9-5 wagons.
And then the guys at ANA Specialbilar proceed to rip them to bits Needless to say there’s a lot of custom stuff that gets installed in these cars so access to everything is necessary in order to do all the wiring.
Speaking of wiring, how’s this for organisation?
Each car has a trolley like this one that’s loaded up with all of the equipment that has to be installed or applied. Everything’s in there from the lighting, camera and radio equipment to the 90-or-so blue and yellow decals that get applied to each car.
Here’s a look from the back of the car. You can see much of the wiring going into the back here.
by Swade
Projekt Trifuel – BioGas Saab unveiled
October 28, 2009 in News
Saab have shown their BioGas model at a conference in Gothenburg today. Both TTELA and Auto Motor and Sport are reporting on the vehicle.
The vehicle loses around 9cms of luggage space in the rear in order to hold 100 litres of BioGas in its tanks. That much gas will take you around “20 mil” which is Swede-speak for 200 kilometers, IIRC. Plans are afoot to get that range up to 30 mil “but we have not reached that yet” according to Saab Powertrain’s Kenth Johansson.
There is no confirmation yet that this model will get the green light. The infrastructure for BioGas is still pretty limited. There are plans for around 70 BioGas filling stations in Sweden by 2012, so this isn’t a widespread solution. If it does go ahead, it’ll most likely be a Sweden-only model at first.
As it’s a demonstrator model only, there’s no idea at this point as to the cost of the conversion, but reports from a few days ago suggest it will be done at ANA rather than at the factory.
by Swade
Saab BioGas conversions coming
October 26, 2009 in News
I need to check into some details on this, but it’s certainly an interesting development that we should hear more about this week.
From Auto Motor and Sport, with a translation thanks to Frank!
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Saab will show a new 9-3 for biogas
Tuesday the 27th, a new Saab model will be unveiled in Gothenburg and it can be run on three fuels: gasoline, E85 and biogas.
So far we know no more than having the invitation to the premiere show, which will take place on Tuesday 27th October. The display is made in connection with an EU meeting in Gothenburg, where policy makers are gathered under the heading “Future Road Transport – safe and clean.”
In parallel with seminars and conferences for the heights in Europe to the dealer ANA Trollhättan show off a new Saab 9-3 1,8 t BioPower, which also will run on biogas. The car is a result of the project “Trifuel”, which of course refers to the car can run on the three fuels, gasoline, E85 and biogas. The project was coordinated by Innovatum Teknikpark with GM Powertrain Sweden AB, AVL and BRC Sweden AB.
The conversion to run on biogas will be made by ANA Trollhättan and Saab may thus have a competitor to Volvo V70 2.5 FT Bi Fuel and the Volkswagen Passat bestseller Ecofuel.
For company car drivers, gas-fueled cars that can run on biogas are especially interesting when you get 40 percent discount on the benefit value (not more than 16,000 per year). The rapidly growing interest in gas-fueled cars have put heavy pressure on supplies to the as yet relatively few gasmack services.
Biogas is methane gas extracted from organic waste and it is a very environmentally beneficial vehicle fuel that is carbon neutral. Methane gas is extracted as a byproduct of crude oil and natural gas is then called. The amount of biogas and natural gas can vary from filling stations.
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AMS also have a picture of a Volvo V70 converted to run on BioGas. The tanks are stored in an under-floor compartment so that the space loss is minimal.
Here in Australia we have a lot of cars that run on Liquid Petroleum Gas. Being a gas-newbie I’m unsure if this is a different product, or a different name for the same product (it’s a different product – SW).
Anyway, Australian LPG installations often involve a single large tank in the trunk, which does cause a loss of luggage space. I think they’re getting better at it in more modern cars, though (admittedly, I haven’t looked at an LPG car for a long time).
As AMS say in their article, it’ll be interesting to see how they solve the tank issue.
We’ll watch with interest as this is another good positive development for Saab.
