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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

Beware the Four Chrome Rings

Arrr! Those reliable Germans. They build cars with precision, technique and technology but the one thing that has always been in rather short supply has been soul.

German cars or rather the drivers of such machines have always, give or take, fallen into three distinct categories of road manners. If the car was being driven like the driver's arse was on fire, then chances are, it was a BMW. If, on the other hand, the driver of such a machine had a sense of pseudo superiority and arrogance usually reserved for civil servants and government ministers, the chances are it was a Mercedes.

Audi drivers tended to be the sort who wanted German engineering without the arrogance or reputation.

Think back to your days at school and the resident school bully who would strutt around with that constant snarl on his face, giving Chinese burns, ear mushes and relieving all junior boys of the burden that was their dinner money.

It's that kind of attitude that forms the pyschological make up of your average BMW driver. Think about it: your school's bully and then ponder what car you would expect him to be seen driving. Sooner or later you'll come to the same conclusion I have and you'll be very surprised to see him in anything other than a BMW M5.

Alternatively, look out of your mock Tudor, PVC, triple-glazed windows and onto your driveway - if there is a M5 sitting there, then you are the git I am talking about. Let me know your address and I'll send you my dinner money post haste. Maybe you'd like to spend it getting some much needed psychotherapy; you're overcompensating for your lack of love from your family, taking it out on everyone around you, freak-show, super-git, dumb-arse!!

What was I talking about? Oh yes, Zee Germans. Well, now we're well into the 21st century, Audi have decided that the middle class nice people who have always purchased their products up to now are a bit dull so they've decided to spice things up by adding a healthy dose of steroids to their product range, with disasterous consequences.

The super-gits who were strictly the reserve of the blue and white propellor have started a migration, nay, stampede to Audi dealers instead - with the result that, yes, that really was the driver of an A6 flashing his headlamps, sounding his horn and flicking V's as he overtakes you next to a school. It wasn't an optical illusion or a figment of your deranged imagination; he really was driving an Audi.

So today's lesson is quite simple, dear listeners. Beware the Four Chrome Rings because it might well be a school bully-mobile in disguise ...

Happy Saabing.


Matt
5 March 2009

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