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“NINES” Magazine – magazine for Saabers

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Official “Saab magazine” does not publish for a few years, but are published independent Saab magazines, such as German “Inside SAAB” or a “Nines” Magazine published by Saab Club of North America (SCNA).

NINES magazine Members of the SCNA receive bi-monthly. The current magazine, NINES, grew out of the newsletter of the Chicago Saab Club, which began 25 years ago. But it wasn’t until 1974 that the “Club” went national.

The Chicago Saab Club actually started in 1971, and there may have been an earlier newsletter, but “Issue No. 1” of “UP FRONT is dated March 1973. The name refers to front-wheel drive, at that time still a rarity for most manufacturers.

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the current issue of the NINES magazine - May/June 2015 #335
the current issue of the NINES magazine – May/June 2015 #335

1986 the newsletter was given the name NINES, because publisher felt that “all publications of this sort needed a proper name”. NINES was chosen because it was the first number in the model designation of all Saab cars, and it was something unique to Saab. Fortunately, Saab has decided to carry on that tradition with its latest models, the 9-3 and 9-5.

Goran Aničić
the authorGoran Aničić
For over 15 years, Goran Aničić has been passionately focused on Saab automobiles and everything related to them. His initial encounter with Saab cars took place back in 2003 when the first Saab 9-3 and sedan version were introduced. At that moment, he was captivated by the car's Scandinavian design logic and top-notch engineering, and everything that followed stemmed from that first encounter. Later on, through his work at the editorial team of the Serbian automotive magazines "Autostart" and later "AutoBild," he had the opportunity to engage more closely with Saab vehicles. In 2008, he tested the latest Saab cars of that time, such as the Saab 9-3 TTiD Aero and Saab 9-3 Turbo X. In 2010, as the sole blogger from the region, he participated in the Saab 9-5ng presentation in Trollhättan, Sweden. Alongside journalists from around the world, he got a firsthand experience of the pinnacle of technological offerings from Saab at that time. Currently, Goran owns two Saabs: a 2008 Saab 9-3 Vector Sportcombi with a manual transmission, and a Saab 9-3 Aero Griffin Sport Sedan from the last generation, which rolled off the production line in Trollhättan in December 2011.

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