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We’ll be live in Studio (not prerecorded) saturday morning with some big annoucements for 2010.  Tune in 105.3 The Fan in Dallas or stream online http://gowolfe.com/web/radio

 

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SAAB Story: Spyker and Tiger in a scramble for Sweden’s Saab

As of Tuesday Morning, Russia’s Spyker is still ignoring Tiger Woods sudden death interest in the SAAB auto line.  Woods (the businessman?) is seriously negociating with the powers that be at GM-Sweden about purchasing the entire company.  Woods has retained the services of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group as the deals consultant.  Woods superstardom over the years put him in touch with some of the world’s most powerful people.  Hence, financier’s on the Woods-SAAB deal are Dubai’s wealthiest banker, Mashreqbank’s Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair, and Kingdom Holding’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud of Saudi Arabia.

Look’s like Tiger may be better at picking his business partners than his bedmates.  He has brought the heavy artillery into the SAAB deal.  A source claims Mr. Woods has already supplied a letter of intent to the courts, and wants the SAAB deal approved no later than new years eve.  Russia’s Spyker has told GM their offer does not have a time table attached.   Someone needs to tell Spyker, that Tiger plays to win.

 - A senior Swedish government official said on Tuesday it remained unclear whether Sweden would need to make guarantees for European Investment Bank financing in support of a deal to sell General Motors GMGMQ.PK unit Saab.

No word yet on if Woods old lady has let him back in the house yet.  That’s the real SAAB story.  Real Deal is fortunate enough to have an insider on the Woods Saab deal, stay tuned to Real Deal Auto Blog and Saturday morning radio show for more updates.

 

 

Breaking News: Tiger to buy Saab from GM to save his wife’s homeland

In a last ditch effort to win the love back of his Swedish bride.  Tiger has indeed made a tender offer to the trustee’s of GM’s Saab line.  Tiger rationalized the takeover with “my kids might not be the golfers that I am, so having this company to operate will give them some structure in their life.  Not to mention that Saab has both Swedish and American operations, and as you already know…we’re a mixed family”

Elin made no comment, but there has been word of every one in her entire family cruisng aroudn Stockholm in a new Saab 9-3 Combi’s.  Woods also announced that his plans for saving Saab include some cosmetic transformation of the product.  When the press asked him what type of changes to expect on the new Tiger Wood’s managed Saab product, the golfer replied “Think of Chip Foose meet’s Saab, with a little bit of Seoul”.

We’re all waiting to see what he means by that.  Boy Dave Chapelle would have a hey day with this one.

John Clay Wolfe 

 

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Texas Woman Creates Snow Globe Car For Christmas

Texan Rachelle Brown’s house sits far enough off the main road her neighbors can’t enjoy her Christmas lights, so instead she’s taken her Toyota Corolla and created the snow globe car, complete with lights, snow, Santa and Frosty

 

This is Awsome: Ford adding mobile internet compatibility to USB ports

by John Neff (RSS feed) on Dec 21st 2009 at 1:29PM

The SYNC system offered by Ford in most of its models just got a lot more interesting. In addition to giving vehicle owners super simple connectivity with virtually any phone or music player and the best voice recognition in the biz, the next generation of SYNC will add mobile internet compatibility to its USB ports. What does this mean? It means that if you’ve got one of those fancy 3G modems for your laptop, you can plug it into the USB port of your SYNC-equipped Ford and voilà! Your entire vehicle is a WiFi hotspot. Imagine the effect of adding easy in-car WiFi to a family of five’s cross-country trip in a Ford Flex and you get the idea.

In-car WiFi has been around for a couple of years already, but all instances have required extra dealer-installed hardware (a receiver and router, specifically) and an additional monthly fee. General Motors announced just last week that it’s adding optional in-car WiFi to seven Chevy models, but like most systems, you’ll have to pay $500 up front ($199 after mail-in rebate through December 31st) for the hardware and $29/month for the service. With a simple software upgrade of SYNC next year, Ford customers will be able to use the 3G modem they may already have and get the same effect, without having to pay extra for new equipment and, most importantly, another monthly fee for internet. It’s also an easy way for Ford to get WiFi in the car for SYNC’s upcoming mobile apps.

 

Schumacher Says It Himself: driving for Mercedes F1 is a “very strong possibility”

by Jonathon Ramsey (RSS feed) on Dec 21st, 2009 at 4:28PM

There are hearts breaking all over Italy, and the biggest one of all is that which beats in the chest of Ferrari head Luca de Montezemolo. Michael Schumacher is still under contract to The Prancing Horse as a global ambassador and consultant for their road cars. However, given the opportunity to return to a Formula One cockpit and prove a thing or ten, he appears keen on racing no matter the color of the car.

Neither Schumacher nor the Mercedes F1 team is revealing anything public about the German’s chances of driving, but it’s been in the press for a few weeks now. Last week, Schumacher phoned Montezemolo and told him there was a “very, very, very strong possibility” he’d end up as a driver for Mercedes. Speculation is that the final say is only waiting on Schumacher’s neck to be declared fully healed after his motorcycle accident earlier this year.

If the 41-year-old Schumy does race again with Mercedes, it will be with the company that put him on the road to becoming one of the greatest racing drivers ever. And it will come at the expense of a muy doloroso de Montezemolo, who is so torn up about Michael switching camps that he has taken to calling the former Ferrari driver “the real Michael Schumacher,” and the potential Mercedes pilot, “the new Michael Schumacher.”

If it comes to pass, we’ll play a sad song for de Montezemolo on the jukebox, but we’ll do a dance for the coming F1 season: Rosberg and Schumacher in Mercedes’, Alonso and Massa in Ferraris, Hamilton and Button in McLarens, Vettel in his Red Bull. There hasn’t been a field like that in that kind of machinery in more than a decade. Please let it be March already…

[Source: Autosport | Image: Juergen Schwarz/Getty]

 

Not digging Top Gear this season? Read this.

by Dan Roth (RSS feed) on Dec 21st, 2009 at 6:58PM

Season 14 of Top Gear is nearly finished, and some fans are singing “The Thrill is Gone” where before the tune had been “You Are the Sunshine of My Life.” The creators have heard the complaints and producer Andy Wilman doesn’t disagree that something is different this time around.

While Wilman’s not in league with Internet whiners lamenting about how the show feels overly scripted, he does acknowledge the complaints while stating unequivocally “it doesn’t necessarily mean we’re going to do anything about them.” The overly-scripted feel isn’t on-purpose, says Wilman, and while he does acknowledge that things have changed, there have been flashes of the simple formula that’s gotten TG to its current stature of greatness. The refusal to submit to any Internet pressure isn’t arrogance, says Wilman, “we’re not wedding DJs taking requests.”

If you don’t like everything, Wilman posits, then the creators of what many call the best car show ever haven’t stopped trying. It may not all work all the time, but they’re not going to give up trying things, right up to the end. When does it end? It’s been rumored that this is the final season. Of course, it was rumored that Season 13 was the end, too. “This incarnation of Top Gear is nearer the end than the beginning,” says the producer, but clearly the team isn’t ready to hang it up just yet.

[Source: TopGear.com]

 

VIDEO: How not to behave during a traffic stop

by Jonathon Ramsey (RSS feed) on Dec 17th 2009 at 2:58PM

The roadside siren — Click above to watch video

The prospect of getting a ticket can make you do a lot of things you wouldn’t normally do — beg, plead, be charming, anything goes, really, when it comes to fending off points and higher insurance premiums. Well, not anything, unless you’re this woman, who went nuts at the idea of being ticketed. Like, crazy nuts.

We don’t know who she is or what she did or what ungodly nightmare she was trying to avoid, but we do know she’s got a set of pipes. If anyone can tell us what she’s saying, please let us know in the comments. Follow the jump for the video, and keep your hand on the volume knob for this one.

[Source: Live Leak via Ryan O'Keefe]