Saab 96 rally video – this will make you smile
With many thanks to Jose N for the tip…… There are a lot of magazines, etc, carrying the news of the week, about the 50th Anniversary of Erik Carlsson’s first RAC Rally win and the launch of the new...
View ArticleMore Saab-at-Bonneville madness
Whilst our mate Bertil builds up his little Saab 96 for another run at Bonneville next year, I’ve just heard about another Saab that ran on the salt flats this year – at 147mph!!! The story is over at...
View ArticleAussie Saab 900 rally car gets down and dirty
There’s a guy up in Sydney, a Saab nut named Steve Emanuel. He used to run a workshop called Saab Serve and I think he even worked on my old silver 1985 Saab 900 Aero before I bought it. He got out of...
View ArticlePer Eklund driving US rallycross event in November
Per Eklund is still driving competitively after all these years, though he’s also turning his hand to mentoring younger drivers as well, which I personally think is the greatest gift he can give. When...
View ArticleGasparatos Saab 900 of DW-world.de
Deutsche Welle is the place to go if you want German news in English but they don’t just do news. Apparently they have a good motoring program as well, called Drive It! This week they have a section on...
View ArticleNew cars for the Saabs United Historic Rally Team
It’s been a little since we updated the SUHRT website but that doesn’t mean the team has been idle. Far from it, in fact! The last few months have seen the guys add two more cars to the garage. The...
View ArticleSaab at the 100th Anniversary of the Monte Carlo Rally
RedJ covered the press release relating to this story yesterday, but there’s a little more that I wanted to share with you today. Peter Backstrom, from the Saab Museum, is heading down to Riems, in...
View ArticleSaabs leave Poland for Monte Carlo Historic Rally
We showed some Saabs leaving Stockholm for the Monte Carlo Historic Rally yesterday, and the Erik Carlsson replica will be leaving from Riems, in France (more on that car shortly). Today, some photos...
View ArticleCarlsson Saab 96 replica leaves Reims for Monte Carlo historic rally
Pete Backstrom from the Saab Museum has sent through a few images from the start of the Monte Carlo historic rally in Reims, France. The car in the images is the one that’s been painstakingly built by...
View ArticleVideo: 50 years sideways
I was going to wait for the weekend before I posted this on site, but now that Autoblog’s got hold of it, I’m getting emails left, right and centre. Here’s a bit of weekend entertainment for you. It’s...
View ArticleMonday Snippets
For those Swedes who like their cars to be green, Preem are launching a new diesel variant that’s either 16% or 20% more environmentally friendly (depending on how you read the literature). Describing...
View ArticlePer Eklund driving US rallycross event in November
Per Eklund is still driving competitively after all these years, though he’s also turning his hand to mentoring younger drivers as well, which I personally think is the greatest gift he can give. When...
View ArticleGasparatos Saab 900 of DW-world.de
Deutsche Welle is the place to go if you want German news in English but they don’t just do news. Apparently they have a good motoring program as well, called Drive It! This week they have a section on...
View ArticleNew cars for the Saabs United Historic Rally Team
It’s been a little since we updated the SUHRT website but that doesn’t mean the team has been idle. Far from it, in fact! The last few months have seen the guys add two more cars to the garage. The...
View ArticleSaab at the 100th Anniversary of the Monte Carlo Rally
RedJ covered the press release relating to this story yesterday, but there’s a little more that I wanted to share with you today. Peter Backstrom, from the Saab Museum, is heading down to Riems, in...
View ArticleSaabs leave Poland for Monte Carlo Historic Rally
We showed some Saabs leaving Stockholm for the Monte Carlo Historic Rally yesterday, and the Erik Carlsson replica will be leaving from Riems, in France (more on that car shortly). Today, some photos...
View ArticleCarlsson Saab 96 replica leaves Reims for Monte Carlo historic rally
Pete Backstrom from the Saab Museum has sent through a few images from the start of the Monte Carlo historic rally in Reims, France. The car in the images is the one that’s been painstakingly built by...
View ArticleVideo: 50 years sideways
I was going to wait for the weekend before I posted this on site, but now that Autoblog’s got hold of it, I’m getting emails left, right and centre. Here’s a bit of weekend entertainment for you. It’s...
View ArticleMonday Snippets
For those Swedes who like their cars to be green, Preem are launching a new diesel variant that’s either 16% or 20% more environmentally friendly (depending on how you read the literature). Describing...
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