SAAB Clubs

Saab Owners Club GB held a National Meeting

Saab Owners Club GB

Here are some photos from the excellent The Saab Owners Club of Great Britain National held recently. If you haven’t been to one before, do try and come next year.

You will be surrounded by great cars, and even greater people.the organizers would like to thank all the sponsors for their generous support, without them this superb event would not have been possible.

SOC National

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In 1960, SAAB cars became available officially in the UK, and it was not long before owners were gathering together to share their enthusiasm for the marque. This enthusiasm was without doubt fuelled by the outstanding performances by the Two-Strokes in the major rallies of this period. This early group of enthusiasts grew in number and it was on 17th May 1963, at the Cheshire Cheese Wine Cellar in London’s Fleet Street, that the SAAB Owners Club was officially formed, with an initial membership of 60.

Saab Club GB

Since then the Club has grown to around 4500 members, and is the largest and most comprehensive UK club for all SAAB enthusiasts. Many of the early members are still in the club today.

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Saabs from England

Entire gallery from this event can be found here.

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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