Today I sold my black 1993 Saab 900 commemorative ( Read more... )

Our 2001 Saab was having alarm troubles. I decided I wanted to look up in the service manual to get more info in case I needed to know how to gut it in the middle of the night so our neighborhood can sleep. (We have an appointment with an actual mechanic next week ( Read more... )

As I commented previously, the Stig has been let go from Top Gear. While the new season hasn't started, they are starting a short run of "Top Gear Live" events with a Stig, and decided to release this video short as an explanation of where they got another one ( Read more... )

For those who care, the Stig has outed himself, been fired by Top Gear, and been hired by Fifth Gear.

Kinda sad...

Can't wait to see how Clarkson et al make fun of this in the next series...

So, some guy named Peter Peter Hughes wrote a song 23 years ago about the idea of (then-alive-but-now-deceased) F1 race driver Juan Manuel Fangio driving a Saab SPG through the Andes on a mission to assassinate former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet ( Read more... )

So, I hadn't really thought it that odd before, but Spyker was actually involved in the earlier round of offers to buy Saab and had been rejected at the time. Spyker is the company which just came in and bought Saab, for those not aware ( Read more... )

On my way to work I passed a car with New York license plate "3M T43".

In (literal) hindsight, it was obviously a vanity plate, and a damn ingenious one at that.

This is the coolest bit of engineering I have seen in a while. I want to tell the guy who made it how awesome I think it is.


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When Koenigsegg bought Saab, they couldn't afford it themselves and acquired extra funding from other sources, some of which was provided in exchange for shares of Koenigsegg ( Read more... )

I drove the MGB to work today. On the way home, the idle started acting funny, and kept getting lower and lower. At one point, I actually stalled while pulling into a stop sign since my feet were too busy braking and shifting to be bothered with the gas pedal ( Read more... )