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Great Saabtoberfest 2018 Event!

Saabtoberfest 2018 California

As we announced, the Saabtoberfest 2018 was held last weekend at SAAB Replay (Saab Replay is the East Bay’s independent Saab & Mini Cooper workshop) in Berkeley, California. Randy from SAAB Replay  provided the opportunity for the whole street to be closed for traffic and reserved for Saab cars only! And there were many beautiful Saab cars, all models and years of production.

The participants of the meeting were very pleased and they thank the organizer – according to their words: It was good to see so may people again and a few for the first time.

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It was a much larger turn out than they expected and the enthusiasm from everyone was phenomenal. Alos, they hope that this can become a more regular thing. They – SoCal club members – truly enjoyed meeting y’all and would love to participate in future such events.

Take a lap around Saabtoberfest 2018 and check out some of the fine Saabs on show last weekend in California:

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Had fun was great to see all the Saabs. Special Thanks goes to Craig Beau from L.A., who made this great video report from California Saabtoberfest. Also, watch his video channel Saab Owners Of America Youtube channel.

This event would not be possible without another Saab guy, and that is Bryce Johnson. Here’s what he said about this great Saab event: “Yesterday was an absolute blast—can’t thank you all enough for taking the time to come! This was the best meet we’ve had in a long time. The food (and alcohol) was great, along with the music and BMX bike demos. The people were awesome, and it was great seeing some new (and familiar) faces! We had a great variety of cars and Craig counted over 50 beautiful SAABs.

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Most of all, I’d like to thank Randy Roche for helping to put this together. Randy, we thank you for letting us use your shop, blocking off the street, providing food/beverages, the fun SAAB swag, and being an overall great host!

I’d say Saabtoberfest 2018 was a big success!!!

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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