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Journals

Friends and associates of Hagstrom Saab have some pretty strong views about the superiority of the Saab brand, as you might expect. Please choose a journal below and read what our learned enthusiasts have to say...

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Matt's World

One man’s sermon from the mount

10/05/2024

02/11/2010

All Hail a New Breed of Motoring God

02/11/2010

New 9-5 Estate

15/10/2010

New 9-5 (Addendum)

06/07/2010

The New Saab 9-5

17/03/2009

The Curse of the Lead Right Foot

06/03/2009

Saab, in Trouble??!!

05/03/2009

Beware the Four Chrome Rings

05/03/2009

David Llewellyn Owen: a Memorial

03/03/2009

Are there ANY Saab crazed Girls out there?

29/11/2006

Oddballs

02/02/2006

The Unicorn

02/02/2006

A Re-acquaintance with the Saab 9000

08/12/2005

The New Saab 9-5

03/12/2005

Our Country is Disappearing up its own A**e Part III

03/12/2005

Dual Flow Filtration Part III

06/10/2005

Farewell to Scandinavian Blue

09/06/2005

Dual Filtration Part II

13/05/2005

Dual Flow Oil Filtration

03/05/2005

My Saab of the Moment!

09/03/2005

Mixed Emotions

09/03/2005

Why are the T16S 900's being scrapped in droves?

03/02/2005

Question: Where does Classic end and pile of s*** begin?

03/02/2005

When is a Saab not a Saab? When it's a Subaru

03/02/2005

Born Free, Taxed to Death

01/05/2004

Back in the Saddle ..

15/11/2003

The classic Saab 900 1978-1994

19/04/2003

Saab 99 buyer’s guide

01/04/2003

Stay safer in an older Saab!

01/04/2003

Petrol £6 a gallon...? But apparently it’s on the cards

Born Free, Taxed to Death

Well, it would seem that Tony and his cronies have hit upon a new scheme to dangle us by the ankles and collect more of our pocket money in taxes.

Their latest idea is for a tax on cars that are declared “off the road” but not yet scrapped. This possessional tax, as it will be termed, is planned to be brought in late next year and could hit anybody who has a project sitting in their back garden.

It seems to me that this is another attempt by the current Government to not only bolster a beleaguered economy but also to dissuade people from buying, restoring and running that classic car they’ve always hankered after. I’ve said before that Tony won’t be happy until we’re all running around in cheap ‘n’ crappyati cars and what with the international emissions restrictions coming in to force by 2010, the classic cars market is not just an easy target, it’s a sitting duck.

Classic cars are tax exempt; classic cars do not have to conform to modern emissions legislation yet! And buying a classic car in no way helps the manufacturing economy of this skeptical isle. Is it any wonder that the Government is starting to bring in measures to restrict classic car ownership to the well-off Bentley set.

Personally I see this as another attempt to control the populous by making individualism too expensive for most people, another attempt to make us all conform. Whatever happened to cool Britannia. Isn’t it time Tony stopped looking for new ways to tax us to death and started to look at how to control Government spending?

Best wishes

Matt



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