Tom`s rearview mirror. The opinion of the Saab bloggers on current topics. Not only, but also, around Saab.
The paywall for the blog came about a year ago. After 10 years and with a slight stomach ache and a number of concerns. Since then, it has cost 17 cents per day in the cheapest subscription if you want all content without restrictions…
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Bremen in November is not worth a trip. The city on the Weser is gray, forbidding, and different than in summer. If Bremen weren't the location of the last official Saab Automobile event 10 years ago...
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We have now test driven two Saab 9-3 Aero Turbo4. Looking back, 7 years later, raises the question of whether there would have been any opportunities on the market. The answer is not easy. One must…
Read more The year is slowly approaching its finale. And because the weeks fly by so quickly, one topic comes to the table with increasing urgency. New company cars are on the way, decisions have to be made now. One topic was that...
Read more The readers know about my affinity for the MG brand. A roadster from 1971 laid the foundation stone, it was with me for a long time. The youthful bond with the legend of Abingdon was never quite…
Read more A Saab 9-5 OG still drives really well today. Almost like a modern car, only without electronic gadgets. You only reflect on how many years have really passed since the premiere when you…
Read more In 5 or 10 years at the latest, the automotive industry will no longer be the way we know it. Chinese electric cars will play a major role. Internet giants sell mobility and hardware under their name, manufacturers of…
Read more 2021 is not 2011 and NEVS is not Saab. The worried look at Trollhättan is of course due to a kind of Saab sentimentality. But the future could grow from the Saab artifacts, and the possibility for this is ...
Read more 10 years ago the world was different. The IAA took place in Frankfurt and no one could have imagined that this would ever change. The Germans loved their cars and the car industry….
Read more I still remember the first Saab Festival after the Trollhättan plant closed. It was June 2013, and there was something like a thirst for revenge in the…
Read more With the switch to e-mobility, not only the type of drive is changing. The manual shift will be a thing of the past, it's ripe for a place in the museum. She's been in retreat for a while now...
Read more Only in very sentimental moments does one remember that Saab once played a role in the top 10 new registrations in Sweden. That's long gone, after that Volvo became the top dog. The ranks 1…
Read more We live in a time of change. Old goes, or will go. Something new is coming, but not every plan works. There was the Borgward story, which had a number of Saab cross-links. In the center of the action…
Read more Korean cars don't trigger any desires in me. In fact. I never owned one, I wouldn't buy one. Never. That's carved in granite. Then Kia came with the Stinger. Damn what a beautiful...
Read more When Saab presented the new 1997-9 in 5, they had big plans. Depending on the sources, between 120 and 130.000 vehicles should be produced per year. That was ambitious, but doable. Especially when the Göta…
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