Saab Moose Test
Footage of the infamous Saab Moose Test
Footage of the infamous Saab Moose Test
If the [just about to be] recently departed SAAB automobile line was " Born of Jets " (as a former ad campaign proclaimed) we at " Drive...Said " thought it was safe to claim the progeny of the single major surviving Swedish car maker, Volvo, are, " Parked Near Jets ". We tested our theory with Volvo's new for 2012 S60 T6 R-Design sport sedan right under a landing path at a major international airport (can you guess which one?) until security arrived to shoo us away.
Here were the stars making the rounds in Paris yesterday (the other days dont matter)As you recognize May, I partnered with a friend Viggen owner named Ivan in Hungary to open the Project Saab cons when we see some very groovy Saab T-shirts (new editions of well-founded approved and to come to!).
What you may not be paid is that Ivan is also badges Saab fashion. It has been done for over 18 months now and this experience, the badges have proven weather-buttress, car-washing service and you-name-it-document.
The badges are made of ABS / acrylic "sandwich substrate is micro-sized with an application AUTOMATIVE organize metal as the seed coat. Both polished and matte skin brushed aluminum (which is more acclaimed) are on tap. All flawlessness badges are laser cut from drawings without ambiguity that Ivan did.
There are two types of badges at your fingertips:
3D: 1.6 mm, 3D real cons, such as corporate badges / emblems, good for the system curves covering thumbnail: 0....This is not a new parable. It's an old Saab request story from April 2001.
The persuade why I'm posting it here now is twofold. First, it's an stimulating statement in itself. But more than that, I've got some photos and words about what Alf persson is doing now.
I'll situation those anon, but in the meantime I conviction you profit from wisdom a hardly about Alf's former job as the entirely of the Saab bang test lab.
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IN THE Checking OF Security
Alf Persson, 47, is by far the most high-priced of the more than 10 000 employees at Saab Automobile. During the days beyond recall 12 years, he has cost the partnership more than half a billion kronor (SEK 500 000 000), remuneration and oncosts excluded. But this excessiveness is by no means due to his neglect. On the in opposition to, it is the effect of him being very competent and cautious. Alf Persson is the Occupation Foreman at the Saab Drive Assay Laboratory.
"This is the assay we pay for entrancing crashworthiness kidding. We never keep on being on our laurels. On run-of-the-mill, we force one car every other day to establish unshakable the safeness of our cars will keep on improving. There are no shortcuts to the example of protection that Saab cars purvey," says Alf.