Volume 6 Issue 3

Winter 2011

Inside this issue:

Veterans Day in Pictures 2

From John Hickey’s Desk 3

Celebrating 80 Yrs of Excellence 4

Spirit of Christmas 4

Sonic Earns IIHS Award 5

What’s Your Chevy Moment? 6

Sudoku 6

Community 7/8

Kudos 9/10

United Way 11

More Community 12

First Aid Classes 13

UW Parking Space Winners 14

Welcome 14

Employee News 15

80th Anniversary Pictures 16

Since 1931 www.sutliffchevrolet.com

Did you know?

Sutliff Chevrolet employees (excluding Managers) who con-tributing $156.00 or more for the 2011 campaign year were eligible for the Sutliff Chevrolet Prime Parking Space Raffle: 4 spaces/16 opportunities to win. See page 14 for the list of the winners.

VETERANS DAY 2011 AT

SUTLIFF CHEVROLET Sutliff Chevrolet honored all those who serve or have served in the Armed Forces of the United States with its annual Veterans Day Flag Raising Ceremony held November 11, 2011.

Remarks and a prayer of remem-brance were followed by recogni-tion of Veterans in attendance and the raising of Sutliff’s giant Ameri-can flag up the area’s tallest flag-pole (140 feet), at our showroom located at 13th & Paxton Streets in Harrisburg. Dan Steele of WHP 580 was the guest emcee the event and the guest speaker was retired Navy Supply Corps Captain Chris McKelvey. Members of Penn’s Woods Painters presented the veterans with handpainted cards created for the occasion

Sutliff employees and guests do-nated “comfort care” items for the local VA Medical Center in Leba-non. (Body wash, safety dispos-able razors, deodorant, shampoo, shaving cream, alcohol free mouthwash).

Special guests this year included 4th grade students from Sylvan Heights Science Charter School in Harrisburg. Sutliff challenged the students to write an essay entitled, “Why We Should Thank a Vet-eran.” The top two essays were read during Friday’s event.

It certainly has been a while since you’ve heard from me in this space. We can all be thankful this year for our health and the recovery of our friends and family who have endured illness or injury this year.

As I read the passage above, it made me thankful to work with such a tal-ented group of people — from Greg on down. Each year, we are asked to reach out and help others — through the United Way; giving out candy in our neighborhood on Halloween; and in providing supplies for our veterans and presents for disadvantaged children. And each year, our employees and families deliver.

Thanks again — just for being your selves and making Sutliff Chevrolet such a wonderful place to work.

John

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From John Hickey’s Desk…

We should all strive to be

that helping hand to our cus-

tomers and co-workers.

The way I heard it, the story went like this:

The holidays were near. The first grade teacher gave her class a fun assignment - to draw a picture of something for which they were

thankful. Most of the class might be considered economically disadvantaged, but still many would celebrate the holiday with turkey

and other traditional goodies of the season. These, the teacher thought, would be the subjects of most of her student's art. And they

were.

But Douglas made a different kind of picture. Douglas was a different kind of boy. He was the teacher's true child of misery, frail and

unhappy. As other children played at recess, Douglas was likely to stand close by her side. One could only guess at the pain Douglas

felt behind those sad eyes. Yes, his picture was different. When asked to draw a picture of something for which he was thankful, he

drew a hand. Nothing else. Just an empty hand.

His abstract image captured the imagination of his peers. Whose hand could it be? One child guessed it was the hand of a farmer,

because farmers raise turkeys. Another suggested a police officer, because the police protect and care for people. Still others

guessed it was the hand of God, for God feeds us. And so the discussion went - until the teacher almost forgot the young artist him-

self. When the children had gone on to other assignments, she paused at Douglas' desk, bent down, and asked him whose hand it

was.

The little boy looked away and murmured, "It's yours, teacher." She recalled the times she had taken his hand and walked with him

here or there, as she had the other students. How often she had said, "Take my hand, Douglas, we'll go outside." Or, "Let me show

you how to hold your pencil." Or, "Let's do this together."

Douglas was most thankful for his teacher's hand. Brushing aside a tear, she went on with her work. The story speaks of more

than thankfulness. It says something about teachers teaching, and parents parenting, and friends showing friendship, and how much

it means to the Douglasses of the world.

They might not always say thanks. But they'll remember the hand that reaches out.

by Steve Goodier

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Celebrating 80 Years of Excellence

Happy Birthday Sutliff Chevrolet

1931—2011

It may have been a cold day, but that didn’t stop the

celebration — hotdogs, apple pie and Sutliff Chevro-

let’s 80th Birthday. (See the day in pictures on page

16 of this newsletter.)

A special thank you to the ladies from the Patriot-News

for helping to organize the event and to Enterprise Car

Rental for providing grilled hotdogs.

Dan Ahearn, Chevrolet Zone Manager, presented Greg Sutliff and John Hickey with a special plaque to rec-

ognize Sutliff’s achievement. Also on hand to deliver additional kudos to the duo was Joe Capita, President

of the United Way of the Capital Region.

Sprinkled throughout the showroom were vintage Chevy automobiles — including those on loan from em-

ployees Joe Polillo (1971 Monte Carlo), George Judy (1955 Belair) and John D’Agostino (1927 Chevy Capi-

tal).

Our hostesses worked the registration desk for test drives and entering guests for the Sheetz gasoline gift car

giveaways. Congratulations to all the Sheetz card winners and to Joel Anderson, the winner of a new iPad.

Decorations abound in December. The calls of "Merry

Christmas" fill the streets and come from people

we barely know. Everyone seems to be smiling

more as the big day comes closer. It's part of the

spirit of Christmas.

For many Christians, celebrating the birth of the

Christ child is the primary focus. They recall the

angels singing, "Glory to God in the highest; on

earth, peace and good will toward men."

For them and for people of many faiths, acts of

kindness and generosity are part of the spirit. It prompts

them to contribute gifts to toy collections for poor children,

to give a check or groceries to a food bank, or to help serve

Christmas dinner at a charitable organization.

It's been said that giving is more blessed than receiving.

Even those with little to give do what they can. Just drop-

ping a few coins into the bell-ringer's bucket makes them a

giver.

You may think that Santa Claus isn't part of

it. But think of the joy he creates not only

for children with his image in a red suit; he

spreads color and seasonal joy to every-

one who sees him. As one modern poet

says, "Standing or sitting or walking

around, Santa Claus is all over town."

The decorations, the music, the service

and the gifts put us in the mood for Christmas, but the true

spirit is in our hearts. Though we're busy, we may be a little

more patient. And we are more compassionate when help-

ing others, though we may have situations of our own to

deal with.

The Spirit of Christmas

 

DETROIT – The all-new 2012 Chevy Sonic, which has two more air bags than its subcompact competi-tors, is an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Top Safety Pick.

The Sonic achieved “good” scores in all four types of tests performed, including frontal offset and side im-pact. It also has standard StabiliTrak electronic stabil-ity control, which the institute requires of all vehicles receiving a Top Safety Pick designation.

The IIHS tests vehicles to determine how well they protect occupants in front and side crash tests, in roll-overs via a roof strength test, and in simulated rear impacts to evaluate seat and head restraints for pro-tection against neck injuries.

"Only vehicles that perform with the highest level of safety in their class earn the Institute's top accolade," said IIHS President Adrian Lund.

In addition to 10 air bags, the Sonic offers a body structure incorporating a single welded side ring unit. More than 60 percent of the vehicle safety cage con-sists of high-strength steel.

“We developed Sonic to exceed our customer’s ex-pectations of the subcompact market, both in the fun-to-drive performance characteristics and the segment-

leading safety features,” said Joaquin Nuño-Whelan, Sonic vehicle line director and vehicle chief engineer. “This designation by IIHS confirms that Chevy customers can buy a subcompact with top safety performance.”

Other Sonic safety features include LATCH sys-tem (Lower Anchors and Top tethers for Chil-dren);six months of complimentary OnStar Direc-tions and Connections service, (including stolen vehicle assistance and automatic crash re-sponse), and power-assisted front disc and rear drum brakes with panic brake assist technology.

Sensors that control the deployment of 10 stan-dard airbags are mounted into Sonic’s structure. The sensing and diagnostic module receives data from the car's sensors and establishes the sever-ity of the impact and whether to deploy the air-bags. The additional driver and passenger knee airbags can help reduce injury to lower extremi-ties.

Another standard feature is Sonic’s hill-hold tech-nology, which makes navigating hilly terrain with a manual transmission as effortless as an auto-matic. It’s a luxury-level feature that helps drivers maintain braking control on hills.

With this rating, the Sonic joins the Chevrolet Volt and the Chevrolet Cruze, two other small cars that recently received a 2011 IIHS Top Safety Pick.

2012 Chevy Sonic Earns IIHS Top Safety Pick Comes standard with two more airbags than segment competitors

“What’s Your Chevy Moment?”

We would like to share our employ-ees’ Chevy Moments in the newslet-ter. Please contact Sheila Rouse at ext. 1770 or srouse@sutliff.net to share your story. Here is Frank Wedig’s memorable moment:

I remember my first car. In 1963, after graduating from high school, I purchased a brand new 1963 Corvette Stingray split window coupe—Sebring Sil-ver, Red interior with a 327 cubic inch 300 horse power engine. This was an absolute Head Turning driving machine! Nothing on the American road looked like it and it was a mighty fast, lady attracting piece of wonder. I remember sitting at a red light on Front Street, Harrisburg and another 63 silver Vette pulled up beside me. It was a hardtop convertible driven by a young Greg Sutliff. I tried to get him to race, but Greg was a no taker on that and I remem-ber feeling lucky as a cop was up around the corner and would certainly have had an interest in our activ-ity.

I did, however, have the opportunity to learn some humility when Bruce Larson, driving a new Cobra, did take me up on the "lets see who goes faster" deal and absolutely blew my doors off as his car seemed to jump off the ground when he shifted into second gear!! I should have listened to the song "Hey Little Cobra" a bit more closely before that humiliating ex-perience.

On the bright side, I did meet Donna, my bride of 46 wonderful years, as a result of owning that coolest of cool cars. Some people ask me if I wish I still had the car and I always reply "no" that I am happy to have the girl I met instead.

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Sutliff Sudoku

To solve a sudoku, you

only need logic and

patience. No math is

required. Simply make

sure that each 3x3

square region has a

number 1 through 9 with

only one occurrence of

each number. Each

column and row of the

large grid must have

only one instance of the

numbers 1 through 9.

Ms. Nannette Swanson

Ms. Senior Pennsylvania 2011

2011 Harrisburg Holiday Parade

Sutliff Chevrolet’s Newest Retiree

Congratulations go out to Les Schmidt, Body Shop

Manager . Les joins the elite ranks of Sutliff Retir-

ees effective the end of this year. Thanks, Les, for

our many years of dedicated service!

Thanks to all the Sutliff employees and guests who at-tended Annual Veterans Day event, and brought “comfort care” item to be donated to the local VA Medi-cal Center. (Body wash, safety disposable razors, de-odorant, shampoo, shaving cream, alcohol free mouth-wash).

Tree Lighting Event At Heart of the Community Garden Stephanie Miller, representing Sutliff Chevrolet, joined others in the neighborhood to

planted a tree in the Heart of The Community Garden for the start of what they hope will

become an Annual Tree lighting event. This year’s event was held, Thursday evening,

Decrmber 8th, 5:30 PM at the community garden, Derry & Kittatiny Streets.

Christmas caroling, hot chocolate, cookies, candy canes, and the official tree lighting were

capped off with a visit from Santa Clause. Special thanks to Kirsten from Joshua Farm and

her helpers form Messiah college in planting the tree.

Sutliff Chevrolet 2011

One Day Sales Event

Sutliff Chevrolet held a special one-day

only sales event on Saturday, Decem-

ber 12th. Ten used-car appraisers were

on site and operated a Sutliff-only auc-

tion. Santa came for a visit and guests

snacked on homemade chicken soup

and other holiday goodies. Jack Anas-

tos, New Car Sales Manager, reported

the event was deemed a success be-

cause it provided customers an opportu-

nity to receive the highest value on their

trade-ins by creating excitement and

competition between the appraisers.

Page 9

Answers to

Sutliff Sudoko

from page 6

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Mr. Millar,

I just wanted to send a brief e-mail to congratulate your group on a pleasurable experience. I was in need of a new automobile, and due to the rising fuel costs, I de-cided to look at fuel efficient autos. I made two stops during my search. The first was at your VW dealership where I looked at a Jetta, and the second was your Chev-rolet lot. I looked at the Chevy Cruze, and through the professional help of Jason Wack, took delivery of the ve-hicle this past Saturday. As with a lot of people, I don't envy the task of car shopping, but your crew did a nice job. I have typically been a Ford customer, but if the ser-vice of your company is as good as your Sales/Finance team, I think I will be comfortable staying with Chevy for a while.

Sincerely,

Tom Wolfe

Hummelstown, PA

Hi Ned,

Just wanted to give you a quick shout and say how much we are enjoying our new 2012 Equinox.

As we had mentioned to you the day we picked the car up, we had taken a trip to New Hampshire.

We loved the navigational feature of the On-Star and for sure we will be renewing this contract to keep.

Lisa was very relaxed knowing that she could rely on On-Star to tell her all of the turns and exits to take all the way.

It was also great to have all of the different features on the vehicle "informational menu", show up in large print directly in front of Lisa as she drove, so she was able to keep track of her average speed, mileage per gallon, remaining fuel in tank, etc.

The car drives so smooth and quite, that even this past week Lisa commented while driving how she loves to drive this car because of the smoothness and so easy to handle.

Thanks again for all of you help with selling us this car.

You were very helpful with any questions that we had and explained all about the car to us in great detail.

Thanks again and have a happy hoildays coming up.

Sincerely,

Another Happy and Satisfied Chevy Owners,

Martin & Lisa Hovis

Hey Adele..[Body Shop]...

First off.... I missed you when I picked up my car a couple weeks ago. I have been meaning to call you or stop by to let you know that my Suburban looks Fantastic... It looks show-room Perfect.

THANKS to You and Sutliff. thanks, Adele.....

Jay Rountree

With a campaign goal of $11 million to help those who need it most, United Way of the Capital Region (UWCR) has raised 30 percent, or $3,247,516, of the total amount it hopes to raise in the Capital Region. Less than five weeks remain in the 2011 campaign.

“We launched our fundraising campaign on the same day flooding from Tropical Storm Lee inundated neighborhoods all over central Pennsylvania,” said 2011 Campaign Chairman Dave Schankweiler, CEO/Publisher, Central Penn Business Journal. “Before the storm hit our region, tens of thousands of people in our community were struggling just to get by. This ongoing need in the Capital Region, coupled with the additional services our community needs as a result of the flood, has only strengthened our resolve to reach our goal this year.”

UWCR publicized its $11 million fundraising goal in early September. This represents a $500,000 increase over last year’s goal, and more than a $230,000 increase over the amount announced at last year’s Celebration Event. As it began its annual campaign, United Way also em-barked on a separate flood recovery campaign. To date, the Capital Region Flood Recovery Fund has raised nearly $70,000 from more than 200 donors to help local agencies support residents impacted by the flood.

“We’re gratified our community is again stepping up to help those in need through our campaign,” added Schankweiler. “We’re pleased to see some early results from company campaigns that are exceeding our expec-tations, but we still have a long way to go to reach our goal. People in need throughout the Capital Region are counting on us to be successful.”

“We cannot stress enough the challenges people in the Capital Region continue to face,” said Joseph M. Capita, UWCR president and CEO. “Unemployment and under-employment have placed a significant burden on our friends and neighbors and the agencies they rely on for help. Many of our local partner agencies have reported

the highest level of client need in three years. In a re-cent survey of our agencies, we learned that 82 per-cent have clients who are using food pantries, up from 46 percent last year, and 85 percent are serving peo-ple who recently lost their jobs. This number is up from 69 percent in 2010. In addition, cuts in funding from government sources are making the problem even worse.”

“We understand many people are watching their budgets closely and are looking for the best value they can find. That’s why we want to remind our com-munity about our Corporate Cornerstones initiative,” added Schankweiler. “Again this year, 100 percent of the money UWCR raises and distributes from individ-ual donors in the community through our Capital Re-gion campaign will be directed to programs and ser-vices.”

This year, donors who give $156 or more to United Way’s campaign are eligible to win one of five prizes: a 2012 Chevrolet Cruze, donated by Sutliff Chevrolet; a vacation package of $3,500 courtesy of AAA Central Penn and Fulton Bank; a home office package which includes a work station and task chair from The Phil-lips Group, a $1,000 gift card from Wolf Furniture, and a Notebook PC, courtesy of an anonymous donor; a home improvement package which includes a $1,000 gift cards from Wolf Furniture, a 50” flat screen plasma television, courtesy of an anonymous donor, a $500 gift card from Metro Bank, and a $500 gift card from Rite Aid Corporation; and $1,500 in groceries donated by Giant Foods.

In addition, Sutliff Chevrolet employ-ees (excluding Managers) contrib-uting $156.00 or more for the 2011 campaign year were eligible for the Sutliff Chevrolet Prime Parking Space Raffle: 4 spaces/16 opportuni-ties to win.

UWCR Needs Community Support to Reach Goal

This years 2011 Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk

was held on Saturday, October 15th. It was a chilly blustery day

but our team had a great time. Team members included: Patti

Miller, Brenda Washinger, Kathi Dymond, Amber Miller, Tom

Hand & Kay Hand. They raised $1419 which was also matched

by Greg Sutliff & John Hickey. Thanks goes out to everyone

who helped make this day a success.

Holiday Elves

Deliver

The Sutliff Chevy and Auto Group

store employees again gener-

ously adopted a child in need for

Christmas. Thanks to the efforts

of Stephanie Miller and Rhonda

Shaffer, auto group employees

brought smiles to the children’s

faces under the care of Cumber-

land County Children & Youth

Services. Donations included a

wide range of surprises — jew-

elry making kits, dolls, bicycles,

trucks, video games and even

two twin beds!.

First Aid Adult, Child &

Infant CPR

DATE CHANGE

Due to the number of employees on vacation, Managers have asked the training be moved to January. The new dates & times are….

Monday & Tuesday

January 9 & 10th, 2012

5:15pm – 8:45pm

If you registered for the December date, please confirm your ability to attend in January. If you have not registered, please do.

WHERE:

Volkswagen Team Room

WHO MAY REGISTER:

Any Full-time Employee

To Register for the Class

Call or E-Mail the Human Resource Office:

dmcgee@sutliff.net 717 920-5558, Dolores

rmoyer@sutliff.net 717 920-5556, Rebecca

To date our wonderful employees have donated $785. Af-ter the company match, I will have more than tripled my original goal. It is great to work with such a generous group of people and I was honored to represent them in running for Sheila and our other cancer survivors.

There is a lot of information about the run at its web site: www.broadstreetrun.com.

Here is John’s take: It was a beautiful day in Philadel-phia. The weather was great – 55-70 degrees during the race and really sunny the whole time. We arrived at “the Linc” (home of the Eagles) and hopped on the Broad Street line of the SEPTA subway system for a ride up to Olney in North Philly. It was crazy seeing 30,000 people in the street at the start – it would be enough to fill Paxton Street curb to curb from the Suzuki store to Eplex (and then some). The mayor of Philadel-phia spoke, some other famous people spoke, they played the National Anthem and then started us in waves five minutes apart, with the theme from Rocky playing the whole time. Support along the course was tremendous – folks from the neighborhoods, students at Temple (Broad Street runs right through campus for about two miles) and lots of musicians – from guys pounding on solo drum kits to a salsa band to several rock bands.

The runners ranged across the board – looked like more women than men, but there were short, tall, thin, not so thin, old (me) and even some kids who looked no more than 8. The run is all on one street – straight down through Philly, around City Hall and on to the shipyard (where I ran many miles while stationed there in the late 80s). At the end there was a carnival atmosphere – lit-erally – with a family area with rides and a petting zoo, etc., all on the old parade grounds at the Yard.

I ran a nine minute mile pace – disappointing but I was undertrained. I had my time as 1:30:10 on my watch (9:01 exactly per mile) but the first five were definitely faster than the last. In any event, I finished in about the top third it looks like. Note that the winner was literally about twice as fast, running a 46:29, or a 4:39 pace per mile. Ouch!

As part of Chevy’s Giving More year-end sales event, Sutliff

Chevrolet was proud to give back more by once again

reaching out to the community through its participation in

the Marine Corps Reserves Toys for Tots campaign.

Thank you to all the Sutliff Chevrolet employees and cus-

tomers dropped a new, unwrapped toy in the designated

boxes in the Sutliff Chevrolet New or Us Car Showrooms,

Service Area or Body Shop Offices at 1251 Paxton Street

or the Sutliff Chevrolet Truck Center at the corner of Cam-

eron & Paxton Streets, Harrisburg, PA.

Thanks to all the Folks who Sponsored John

Hickey in the Broad Street Cancer Run

As announced during Sutliff’s United Way Appeal, employees who pledged at least $156 to the United Way were included in a drawing for the use of a premium parking

space. This year 41 non-management employees were eligible for the drawing. In addi-tion, Nikki Mehalick and Kathi Dymond were the high bidders for the use of a year-long space at the silent auction held recently.

United Way Parking Space Winners Announced!

Parking

Space Qtr #1 (Jan-March) Qtr #2 ( April—June) Qtr #3 ( July—Sept) Qtr #3 ( Oct—Dec)

1 Kathi/Ken Dymond Kathi/Ken Dymond Kathi/Ken Dymond Kathi/Ken Dymond

2 Marilyn Simcox-Martin John D’Agostino Brett Gilbert Gay Lewis

3 Holly Lynch Darrell Long Kathy Halula Terry Hurley

4 John Gamon Faith Keefer Robin Potteiger Scott Berrier

5 Deb Perry Ned Deissler Jeff Yentzer Dale Fohl

United Way 2011 Parking Space Winners

Golden Nikki Mehalick Nikki Mehalick Nikki Mehalick Nikki Mehalick

FASNACHT STEVEN SERVICE DEPT

DONELON ADELE BODY SHOP

WEIS ADAM SERVICE DEPT

VENESEVICH EDITH RECEPTIONIST MASTALSKI

JR RAYMOND DRIVER

RODRIGUEZ JOEL BODY SHOP

DYMOND MARVIN DRIVER

SMITH SCOTT SALES

HENNINGER DAVID BODY SHOP

ROWE BRUCE SERVICE DEPT

GLEMBA JOSEPH DRIVER

ZIEGLER JORDAN PREP

DURRANI SAMIULLAH TRUCK SERVICE

ENNES DUKE BODY SHOP MGR

PUCHALSKY THOMAS October 12

GARBER CLINT October 14

KOBYLSKI RICHARD October 15

MILLAR JEFFREY October 24

DONELON ADELE October 24

SMITH SCOTT October 24

ANASTOS JOHN October 26

FREEMAN KENNETH October 29

RICHWINE ROGER November 1

MEHALICK NICOLE November 3

MARTIN DAVID November 6

SIMS VAN November 14

DEISSLER NORMAN November 15

SLATT JAMES November 16

KEEFER FAITH November 18

SIMMERS STEPHEN November 30

GEBHARD DANIEL December 2

WALTERS CHRISTOPHER December 4

GELNETT JASON December 5

STAGO DONALD December 7

CARROLL MYLES December 13

MARTIN NEILL December 13

BROJAKOWSKI JUSTIN December 19

KIMMEL TIMOTHY December 19

LYNCH HOLLY December 26

WILLIAMS SHEENA December 26

HOFFERICA JAKE December 28

DYMOND MARVIN December 30

SIMMERS STEPHEN 48

HUSBAND RONALD 32

MOYER STEVEN 29

DORMAN KEVIN 21

MARTIN DAVID 18

MEHALICK MONICA 15

MILLER STEPHANIE 15

GARBER CLINT 14

FALATOVICH JOHN 11

THOMPSON Jr JAMES 10

WASHINGER BRENDA 10

MEHALICK NICOLE 8

EVANS WILLIAM 7

DEISSLER NORMAN 6

DYER MATTHEW 4

FREEMAN KENNETH 4

GONZALES HECTOR 4

HOERNER ROBERT 4

STORCH BARRY 4

TRADER RICHARD 4

HANNA III DONALD 3

YOUNG JOHN 3

GELNETT JASON 1

KOBYLSKI RICHARD 1

Tracey McMichael - to Chevy new sales from Cadillac Saab

Kyle Irwin - to Chevy service from Suzuki

Fred Harvey - to Chevy service from Cadillac Saab