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Journals

Friends and associates of Hagstrom Saab have some pretty strong views about the superiority of the Saab brand, as you might expect. Please choose a journal below and read what our learned enthusiasts have to say...

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Matt's World

One man’s sermon from the mount

10/05/2024

02/11/2010

All Hail a New Breed of Motoring God

02/11/2010

New 9-5 Estate

15/10/2010

New 9-5 (Addendum)

06/07/2010

The New Saab 9-5

17/03/2009

The Curse of the Lead Right Foot

06/03/2009

Saab, in Trouble??!!

05/03/2009

Beware the Four Chrome Rings

05/03/2009

David Llewellyn Owen: a Memorial

03/03/2009

Are there ANY Saab crazed Girls out there?

29/11/2006

Oddballs

02/02/2006

The Unicorn

02/02/2006

A Re-acquaintance with the Saab 9000

08/12/2005

The New Saab 9-5

03/12/2005

Our Country is Disappearing up its own A**e Part III

03/12/2005

Dual Flow Filtration Part III

06/10/2005

Farewell to Scandinavian Blue

09/06/2005

Dual Filtration Part II

13/05/2005

Dual Flow Oil Filtration

03/05/2005

My Saab of the Moment!

09/03/2005

Mixed Emotions

09/03/2005

Why are the T16S 900's being scrapped in droves?

03/02/2005

Question: Where does Classic end and pile of s*** begin?

03/02/2005

When is a Saab not a Saab? When it's a Subaru

03/02/2005

Born Free, Taxed to Death

01/05/2004

Back in the Saddle ..

15/11/2003

The classic Saab 900 1978-1994

19/04/2003

Saab 99 buyer’s guide

01/04/2003

Stay safer in an older Saab!

01/04/2003

Petrol £6 a gallon...? But apparently it’s on the cards

Our Country is Disappearing up its own A**e Part III

Now, call me an old kermudgeon but back in the great and glorious day of the empire if you were late renewing your car tax or your MOT, it didn’t really matter in the great scheme of things because there were far more important things going on in the world. There were children starving in the Sudan, there were wars going on …. somewhere and no-doubt pestilence and death were having a bit of a laugh somewhere else as well.

Car tax and MOT, or the lack of renewal of such, turned into a bit of a game. If you managed to go three weeks to a month before biting the bullet, then you felt like a bit of a folk hero. Yes, indeed, you managed to evade capture and you swizzed the government out of a whole months’ car tax, harrar!

If on the other hand you got stopped by le plod, well it didn’t really matter; they would slap your wrist, say “you naughty boy” and tell you also to sort it out!!!, in that Sweeney, Dennis Waterman voice they all did so well.

They were great times weren’t they? Well they’ve gone and have been for quite a while. This country now has no sense of fun in local government and even less in Westminster. Le plod are now referred to as HER MAJESTY’S LOCAL POLICE AUTHORITY and they now have to buy tax and MOT information from the DVLA and insurance information from … well, some bloke in a mack down the Red Lion, probably, to facilitate them sitting up a tree with a digital camera to catch you, the wanton criminal, because your tax or MOT is 17 seconds out of date.

Apparently all the digital technology that PC up a tree has at his disposal is all made by Siemens and the system at the DVLA is also made by Siemans as well. My phone is made by Siemens as well; what relevance has that, I hear you ask; well I’ll tell you, absolutely none but you didn’t know that.

This is just another way of using digital information to try and prosecute the normal car driving public. They don’t care about our fun and games; they don’t care about the psychological boost we would get from feeling like a government swizzing plod evading folk hero.

All they want is to make it absolutely impossible to avoid paying taxes. The Dta Potection Act means nothing to them because they invented that with the loopholes made by the finest craftsmen so as to be able to be ignored at any time it became inconvenient.

The mere fact that the tax, MOT and insurance info on PC up a tree’s disc could be up to 2 months’ out of date, doesn’t phase them either. “They’re out to get us because we is scum!”. I suspect that with only a minor tweek by the Home Secretary, car tax dodgers could be referred to as terrorists and locked up for 28 days without charge, enquiry or insinuation.

Well, it’s the way of this anally-retentive country of ours; we’re not allowed to have any hint of fun at the government’s expense. So keep everything current dear listeners or they’ll get you!

Happy Saabing



Matt



25 November 2005

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