Saab Session Slovakia 2015: the video

The video from this year's Saab Session Slovakia arrived. Partially drone, partially from the ground. Respect to the authors. Enjoy.

Two retro Saab videos

Saab_Crash from Vibenius on Vimeo.

Saab_Lights from Vibenius on Vimeo.

Two nice videos appeared recently on Vimeo. Both are old commercials. The first one probably wouldn't be usable, due it's comparative nature, which isn't allowed in some countries. But it doesn't matter now. Both are little time machines into the past when things were very different.

The key in the middle

src: Saab more than just a car fb

A Saab 900 video : delicious by Petrolicous

A Saab 900 story video. A delicious one. A legendary Saab, a great short Saab story. Yummy.

Source : Petrolicious.com - check it out, you will stay there for a while.

Photography

From time to time extra high quality Saab photos appears online. There are not many people which can do such a gorgeous pictures. This time it's Adrian Burt, a swedish photographer. You can see more on his website.

There are not only Saabs and not only cars, but many things, most of them very eye catchy. Most of them are photos, such as the picture above, but the site contains also CGIs such as the one below.

Really nice. 

 Source : Adrian Burt

... a couple of trip pics

380 km on roads like this. Summer. Convertible. Yummy.

Another example

A small but very comfortable Saab meeting. A couple of friends...

As every year, the pub is always very stylish. And the beer was great. Small brewery, no eurobeer.

The seniors with us.

Saab 9000 CDE. A long one. Not often to see. Very likeable.

A detail from the Saab 96

Back to the roots

It's always great to have some photos hidden somewhere in the darker side of the harddisk. Just for coming back after months or years, to enjoy them. This is one of them.

Technically far from ideal but still it has a lot of atmosphere. A good friend of mine, Eva, a photographer shot it. Just as an experiment. It was a cold March, it's on the parking place on the hill above the village Hainburg an der Donau in Austria. A photo flash is used as light source and some games with shutter times, appertures, ISO and things. This is what left. I like it.

It's already a timestamp from the saabish era. 

A possible NEVS new SAAB 9-3 design ?

A really nice discovery was posted to SaabsUnited. A reader was browsing to the website of the designer studio yovinn in Göteborg, where amongst others Matias Cindric, the former Saab chief designer works.

At the doors are pictures with known curves. It's a Saab, no doubt. It's a new picture and it's still at the yovinn website.

NEVS said at Saabfestival, that they will start with a minor facelifted 9-3. It's on the third slide from their presentation. This is a minor facelifted 9-3.

 

These seems to be two different variants. A four door and a two door maybe ? The front part remembers a bit on the 9-3 Griffin, the two Saabs have a bit different front masks. The rear side is taking the nice 9-5 concept of the wide "red position lights". It looks great.

Nobody told what chassis version would be the NEVS 9-3. Well, here it's clear, however I highly doubt, that they aren't working on a SportCombi version as well.

So is the appearance of the photo a coincidence ? No way, this kind of pictures are never a coincidence, but a nice marketing/PR tool. So if NEVS was too silent, which many fans didn't liked, this could be the answer.

According to NEVS "overdeliver and underpromise" communication strategy, it would mean, they have this 9-3 in an advanced stage already. Well, they have to. If the production should start after summer this year, the car must be close to ready by now.

I like it. It looks nice, it would be a very nice start. But these are illustrations only. Let's see how the reality looks like.

Thumbs up and cross fingers !

btw. if someone from the designer studio is looking at their websites traffic, they must be extremely lucky right now :) 

Clean

Someone repaired the isolation of the walls in our garage. The result was a tiny film of dust on cars parking inside. It's gone now .)

Cabrio season as it should be

These days is here in the middle of Europe probably the best convertible season in the year. The summer started, 25-28°C (77-82 Fahrenheit) is the ideal temperature, not too hot, not too cold. Exactly as it should be. It's no sea or ocean here, but the Danube keeps the days and evenings very comfortable.

Things have changing nature. We had at the staircase of my former flat a grafitti saying simply: "up and down", Right now some things are up and some down. It depends on how many things you do and perceive. It's now here this strange mixture of the ups and downs.

Fuzzy-headed from both sides I've decided to do a bit of head refresh, stabilise the too many thoughts and emotions. With a convertible ride of course, in this weather a no-brainer. Through the drive some nice moments appeared.

Some pictures, photographed simply through my sunglasses.

Ferry through Danube. Someone decided 20 years ago, that a free ferry for many years is cheaper than a bridge. OK :)

Sunflowers around the road.

Blue ... (velvet)

via Saab Turbo Club of Sweden

A great stop motion video from Balkan

Tour de Balkan from fffilm on Vimeo.

A 900 again

A 1600 x 900 px resolution comes after a click on the picture. The Saab folder on your hard drive will like it.

via pinterest

A ride ...

From the recent ride to Czech republic. Rains were forecasted, but nobody knew when and where. Reality : at that day nowhere. So roof down and bzzzuuummmm ...

Casablanca 1955

via Norwegian Classic Saab Club

The c900 part in the Saab Museum

It's one of my favorite parts in the Saab Museum in Trollhattan. Up there on the floor with the classic Saab 900s.

Saabfestival 2013 : photos part 3

Saabing part 3. Mainly from the Saab Museum and ANA. [part 1, part 2]

Waiting for the ferry to Sweden. The strange thing in the lower right corner is me.

Self-portrait with DJA 880 in the mirror of the Independence Edition.

DJA 880 : The last Saab. (before the NEVS era ?).

A detail from the Saab Museum.

Batmaaaaan.

A detail.

... and another one.

A very special t-shirt.

ANA. 9-5 NG steering wheels.

The Maptun tent. The wheels are BBS.

9-5 dashboards. Loads of them.

Other photos from the Saabfestival 2013 : [part 1, part 2]

Saabfestival 2013 : photos part 2

This is the second part of the pics. Other parts : [part 1]

Rostock. On the way to Sweden. Going for a bought 9-5 NG.

The czech 9-4X behind me.

Branchia. Žiabre !

I liked this one a lot. Even when not being a fan of white cars.

Mr. Fuj. Imho it should have YUMMY on the numberplate.

Yummy's interior. Wood, no plastic.

I love these double coloured Saabs. Also maybe because our stupid laws doesn't allow them.

A detail from a Neobrothers creation.

A wonderful detail. From a german driver and a reader of this blog. Awesome.

In front of the SAAB factory.

No details about the car, except it's made by ANA.

Neobrothers unveiling their newest project. With both racing celebrities Erik Carlsson and Simo Lampinen.

You can also see [part1].

Saabfestival 2013

About 1500 cars and 10-12.000 people is the rough estimation for this years Saabfestival in Trollhattan. Origin : all around Europe, some people from U.S., Canada and China. And reportedly, there were more people from outside of Sweden than locals.

The festival had great luck for weather. Sunny, the ideal 25°C for a convertible top down. In contrast to the rest of Europe fighting with heavy floods.

A very positive atmosphere all around the place. Smiling people. A lot of Saabs driving between locations where something happened : 1) the Saab Museum as central point, 2) the ANA shop, service and scrapyard with special prices and 3) the parking place in front of the SAAB factory for a short car test.

Old friends, new friends, many interesting talks and indeed a feeling of a fresh wave of optimism for the future. Well there were reasons for that. NEVS, in addition to its electric story, announced a  facelifted 9-3 with a combustion engine. This is not a really new thing but a still a powerfull message saying it's not the end.

Old, new, tuned, heavily modified Saabs, whatever you can imagine. 300 HP here, 550 there, even 1000 HP. Wonderful small details on many Saabs. You can see some of them on the photos below.

I've counted seven NG 9-5 SportCombis. With numberplates and on the streets. There will appear photos from their photosession sooner or later somewhere on the Internet. Nice.

Coming back to home wasn't easy : 800 km in rain (my rainy record), I had to find alternative routes twice because of some closed roads A huge part of middle Europe, is under water right now. Some of the sceneries around still opened highways were not nice and I can only wish luck to everyone, where the water didn't reached the peaks.

Other photos : part 2 and part 3.

Coming to the Rostock ferry with an excellent timing. 9-5NG Sport Combi, 9-4X and my convertible.

9-3X with the Independence edition wheels looks imho great.

The two belgian Toppolas. Not everydays picture at all.

Andrei (Griffin models) is proudly showing his models. Handmade and for sale. Late evening at the hotel.

Talks, talks ... everywhere.

A 550 HP Saab 9-5 by Maptun. Well yes.

The two famous motorhomes. Numberplates : FUJ and DEO :) Interior photos in next blog posts.

Wanna race ?

A great color combination on this Sonett

A detail ...

Plenty of space ...

My convertible. I always wanted to have such a photo, so here it is. It was the 3.000 km worth.

A 1000 hp Saab 9-3 by Speedparts.

If you like the photos, here is more of them : part 2 and part 3.