Part 1: Exterior, engine and transmission Part 2: Interior, Seats and Visibility Part 3: Performance, handling and equipment Wilderness State Park, Michigan The Saab 9-4X weighs a hefty 4,400 lbs with the 3.0i engine. The Aero is even heavier and can tip the scale up to 4,700 pounds. I owned a 2002 Chevrolet Trailblazer for a couple of years and it had the typical ride of an SUV. Heavy, pretty slow, vague steering, ...
Although reported a day or so earlier, it has now been officially confirmed that the Saab museum cars will be publically displayed in a museum. Saab's bankruptcy administrator attorneys issued a memo on January 13, 2012 informing the public that the Saab Car Museum in Trollhättan, which had closed at the end of 2011, was to have its more than 100 car collection liquidated. The administrators solicited bids from the public as well as for the entire museum collection as a whole. The ...
Updated 27 January 2012 at 05:17 by Dave T
Although it’s hard to advocate bankruptcy as a way to drum up business, it seems to be working in the case of Saab . According Dataium, which tracks vehicle research across all automotive Web sites, online searches for Saab vehicles jumped 10 percent following the company’s December 19 bankruptcy filing. Moreover, the number of first-time buyers shopping the Saab brand increased between 50 and 100 percent each day for the following two weeks. That figure is even more impressive ...
As you know, my garage project is ongoing. It's possibly half finished.
On the weekend of January 14-15, 2012, there were about 100 gatherings and convoys around the world in support of Saab. "We are many, we are Saab" was coined as the motto. In Seattle, there were several gatherings. The largest gathering was organized by the Northwest Saab Owners Club meeting in Fife, near Tacoma, Washington, USA. A convoy then drove two to three hours south to Portland to join a meeting at Atomic Auto. In Seattle, there appears to have been one or two ...