NEVS is ready to go

NEVS management confirmed to SaabsUnited thursday evening, that the chain of suppliers to restart production is now ready to go! Per Svantesson, Purchase manager at NEVS told TTELA that gradual changes and improvements will be made until a facelift is ready to be rolled out. According to sources to SU this would happen sometime in the spring of 2014. Sources to SU say that production of cars would most likely start late november or early december, however there is no confirmation from NEVS on an actual date for the production start.

Bericht door Save Saab Museum.

GOOD NEVS!

Today NEVS has presented their first produced Saab to a team of three reporters from SaabsUnited. This really is good Nevs for all Saab fans.

Read more on this page of SaabsUnited or this page on the Saabism blog.

Saab meet at our airport

Gavin has made his "report" of our Saab meet from this week;

Just back from a memorable trip to Holland, the question is where do I begin? Went down to London on Sunday and spent time window shopping in Mayfair before going to St. James's Park to see the ducks and squirrels. It was a glorious evening and I did so enjoy being there. Dinner at my club, nice to have freshly starched linen and a good meal washed down with Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand! Then to Docklands and the Thistle Hotel, the less said about that the better, but it was handy for the airport! Monday dawned dark and miserable, not like the previous evening! EGLC was a joy, security quick and efficient and no check in, I was soon strapped into the leather seat of a City Jet F50. A nice but short flight and we were at Antwerp where the skipper brought the Fokker off the ILS to low cloud and poor visibility, way below the weather minima for the Cessna to come in and pick me up Rudy howe...ver had turned up in his classic Saab 95 and we were soon heading down the motorway for the Dutch border. A brave man that Rudy as he invited me to drive his lovely old car, I had to 'fess up' that I had not driven a manual for 10 years and had never driven on the right hand side of the road. Three modern Saabs overtook us honking madly and I thought they were saluting this old-timer, should have known better! I managed to cope with the driving and even negotiated a roundabout before getting to his shop (of which more later) for a much needed coffee to calm my nerves, we were soon off to the small airfield where he keeps his Cessna 150. We arrived at the grass airfield and I was amazed to see a huge collection of Saabs lined up outside the clubhouse for my visit, I was most impressed. Rudy had been in contact with his chums who turned out in big numbers, including the three cars I had seen earlier - there must have been upwards of 20! There was a great range of cars, estates, convertibles and even a 9-7X, a 4x4 SUV never officially imported into the UK. The weather improved somewhat and it was time to take to the air, it was nice being in a light aircraft once again although the visibility was still poor, we went over the coast and saw some of the long bridges that link the islands. On our return Rudy took some more friends flying while I inspected the Saab collection. It was soon time to get something to eat and Rudy had booked a table in a nice restaurant overlooking the sea at Vlissingen (Flushing to you Brits!) there must have been upwards of twelve people dining and a good time was had by all, I can recommend the cod! After dinner we went for a tour around the town, had to make the obligatory visit to the statute of Admiral Michael de Ruyter who was born in the town. I will not dwell on the Admirals naval successes during the Anglo Dutch wars, somewhat embarrassing for us Brits, so I will move swiftly on!! Having looked around Flushing we moved on to Middelburg, the capital of Zeeland and had a look at some of the fine architecture although much was damaged during the war. It was then time for me to be dropped off at a very nice B &B ready for Tuesday. Tuesday was another damp and miserable day, Robert came to pick me up in the classic 95 and we went to Rudy's kitchen design shop. This is a temple to the gastronomic art, full of Neff and Miele appliances. Rudy has sold a fridge to London and other equipment to Australia so distance is no object! I liked the integrated plate warmer and the built in steamer but the piece of kit I loved most was probably the cheapest, a self powered LED mixer tap which illuminated the flow of water blue when cold and changed it to red when hot, how cool is that!! Soon it was time to leave for the airport in Antwerp, Robert at the wheel of the 95 once again. We made good time till we reached the outskirts then got heavily snarled up along the ring road - at 2 in the afternoon??? Faulty navigation on my part and the need for the satnav to find itself again was more time lost, then disaster! Someone bumped into the back of the Saab denting the chrome bumper, not easy to replace! Robert soon sorted things out but more time was lost, we arrived at the airport 15 minutes before take off. At a larger airport I would gave missed the flight but the staff were brilliant and soon got me through security and onto the aircraft, amazingly I was not the last passenger! So ended a super visit, my thanks to Rudy for being such a kind host and for the flight in the Cessna, to his many friends for being so welcoming, to Robert for all his driving and finally to the staff at City Jet who were not in the least fazed by my late arrival at the airport, they could not have been kinder. To you all I say a big thank you!

Pictures of the Saab meet of this week are collected on this page.

Pictures of the Saab meet yesterday

Yesterday we`ve had our Saab meet here at our Airport. On this page you can see the pictures of this meet.

Below a small video of Gavin driving in the Saab 95.

Saabs at the airport

For today my English Saabfriend Gavin comes over for a short stay in Holland. He wants to fly with me in the Cessna, but what he does not know is that a lot of Dutch and Belgian Saabists are present here to give him a warm welcome! Let`s hope for good weather now! Here more info (in Dutch).

New Saabs coming this year?

The "news" about New Saabs has been spread on our Facebook page some weeks ago. But as not all Saabists are active on Facebook this time something about those Saabs(the pictures are made in Austria on my way to Italy). According to the news new Saabs `ll be made again by end of August 2013 in the city of Trollhättan. 8000 Saab 9-3 sedans in both gasoline and diesel versions `ll be made and in the future an electrical version will be available too. The Saab 9-3X `ll be available by year`s end, but there is no mention of the 9-3 Sport Combi being produced.

No news about the engines to power the 2013 Saab 9-3. The "old" 9-3 had a GM engine, it is highly unlikely that GM would license this engine to NEVS. The tooling and know how for Saabs old H-series engine has been sold to BAIC. In the past Fiat engines have been installed in 9-3`s, that`s why there are rumors of a Fiat engine to power new Saabs. But why no BMW engine? They had a deal with Victor a couple of years ago.

Team behind Save Saab Museum page

Today Ingrid has joined the team of our Save Saab Museum page. There are three Saabists now posting on the Save Saab Museum page on Facebook (and we have more than 1600 likes now). Ingrid is a Saabista driving in a 9-5NG sedan and living in Holland.

Simik is living in Los Angeles and drives a 9-5 too, he is very active in the Saab community of Los Angeles.

Rudy is living in Holland like Ingrid and has a 9-3 Convertible (besides that also a 9-3 sedan and a Saab 95V4). Together we want to enjoy you all with info about Saab and nice Saab pictures. Feel free to share your pictures and/or stories on our Facebook page!