The day started very early (6:30AM) with a quick breakfast at the B&B. With Isaak fed, we were on the road, headed for Trollhattan some 45 minutes away from Goteburg, but due to extensive road work, we arrived in a little over an hour. The saab musuem houses pretty much every model ever built since 1945. It also features the experimental prototypes and the newest 9-5 and. 9-3 adaptations, but they were all locked ?! I figured it would be somewhat like a saab dealer plus an extended section to pay and visit the older cars. I must say i was pretty disappointed.
Remark #1: some of the older cars had flat tires
Remark #2: no sign of the phoenix concept car
Remark #3: sorry, no one cares about the failed 9-6, a subaru tribecca built in japan by fuji industries. Enough with the failed me too's !
Remark #4: all new cars locked. C'mon, i even paid to get in ... Is this really how you want to restart the brand? Everyone paying to get Loves saab's, we're not going to stick gum on the seats or slash the leather.
Remark #5: factory tours off till the fall. sorry you're no porsche or bmw, are you really hiding something top secret or ashamed of your empty factory?
Remark #6: why do you have little else but old leftovers of saab gear like shirts and stuff ?
Ok well besides the rants, there was some good. The 1945 saab 92 is gorgeous. There was lots of 900 and 9000 models and their respective engines. The toilets worked well, thanks, i had a nice relieve in your state of the art facilities!
One last note. The fellow who sold me entry tickets said the factory was not operating. I beg to differ. I did take a 15 min drive to see the factory with my own eyes, and the parking lots were full of saab employee cars, thousands of them!
Photos to come...
Location:Trollhattan Sweden
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