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Artistic project: Saabs into Bicycles

Saabs into Bikes

When you get bored in winter you can take your Saab to make you a bike if you can’t pull it together again. An alternative to skroten, very environmentally friendly besides……… many crazy ideas. Just fine Saab – uff – This is a comment from a Saab car lover.

Similarly, many other Saab fans think it’s too bad to sacrifice one Saab for one bike. But…

Saab 900

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German artists Folke Koebberling and Martin Kaltwasser transformed in 2010 with the help of students of the ACCD a Saab 900 turbo on a car park in Santa Monica, Bergamont Station to two fully functional bicycles. Art project “Cars into Bicycles” took place from march to may 2010 in Santa Monica, California. During their one year in Los Angeles they did not have a car.  This resulted in this anti-consumer SAAB project.

SAAB Bike

The couple Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser have been elaborating their idea of an artistic and architectonical aesthetics of resistance against this take-over since 1998. They confront consumerist ideologies with alternatives: structural intervention, artistic statements, actions and theories.

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All the items of the bicylces were 100 % car items. They would say – recycling

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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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