Think of Sweden and what comes to mind? Snow, Ikea furniture, and ABBA are just some of the best known exports of this country on the Scandinavian peninsula but for a car bore like me, it’s always going to be Volvo and Saab. I always remember as a car-mad 12 year old, the excitement of sitting in the maroon Saab 99 that belonged to the father of the ‘new boy’ in my class. In the day when my parents had a rather sedate Morris 2200, a Saab with (of all new fangled things) Fuel Injection was something really special! Amid the boasts of how fast it could go, and how many horsepower the engine had, I was really rather jealous of his father’s Swedish chariot and longed for one myself some day. Read more…
It’s the end of the road for Saab cars. The ‘other’ trusty Swede is no more.
Posted by admin on December 21st, 2011
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Classics in Paris – still going strong.
Posted by admin on December 5th, 2011
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