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Earlier this week and at the last minute I was contacted by the Top Gear producers to ask me if it was possible to attend the studio filming along with my car and one other.

We managed to pull it off and got the two cars in time for rehearsals and the main filming session:

During the studio filming they showed the tribute to Saab film. I am not going to give you any detail of this as it will just spoil it for you.

As I have mentioned previously although I attended both location filming days with our cars I had no real idea of the final content. I can now say that I believe that it is a reasonably well balanced account and I am pleased with our small influences along the way.

Having said about not giving any detail I reckon owners of 99s and 900s will be very happy!

Top Gear are very grateful to us for all of our help not only in providing the cars but also copies of images, video clips, etc. We are proud to have been part of it and I think that we have done a good job for the Saab community. This was our main objective.

Have a look at this little insight as a taster for Sunday but don't be misled by the switch nonsense!

http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2012/02/24/video-jeremy-richard-and-james-introduce-sundays-top-gear/

Enjoy it on Sunday.

Mike

I have had confirmation today from the Top Gear team that the Tribute to Saab will be shown next Sunday 26th Feb.

I am sure that you will recognise a few of the cars being driven by Jezza & James.

Mike

SOC on Top Gear?

Not quite true but some of our member’s cars will feature in a film covering the history of Saab later in the current series.

We were not able to make this public until the series started last night due to agreements that we had with the Top Gear team.

Following the their approach to us a few weeks back we have now supplied almost all of the cars for 2 days of location filming. However, although some of us were present even we do not know the full content of the film so it will be a bit of a surprise to all of us. It will, we are sure, contain some of the normal Top Gear humour so we don’t all expect to escape unscathed! We are assured that, overall, Saab will come out looking good.

Sorry but we are still not in a position to list all of the actual cars but I can tell you that they cover over 50 years of Saab production. You may already have seen two or three of the cars in the trailer at the start of the show, including my 9-5.

We do not know for sure when the Saab film will feature but our friends in Top Gear have indicated that it will be mid to end of February. Even they do not know yet as they tweak each episode right up to a few days before filming the show.

This was a great opportunity for our Club and some of our members to be involved in such an exciting and long awaited project. Although it has been an enormous amount of work there have been few opportunities for such a level of publicity for both the Club and the Saab brand.

I will post updates here as I hear more from them.

Thanks

Mike Philpott

The city of Trollhättan, SAAB AB and The Wallenberg foundations have saved the Saab Car Museum with a bid of 28million SEK.

This is great news that our treasured Saab collection will remain complete and in Trollhättan for us to enjoy for years to come.

Fantastic!!