{"id":69539,"date":"2009-12-07T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/07\/former-saab-pr-manager-jan-willem-vester-succumbs-to-illness\/"},"modified":"2009-12-07T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T23:28:00","slug":"former-saab-pr-manager-jan-willem-vester-succumbs-to-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/69539","title":{"rendered":"Former Saab PR manager Jan-Willem Vester succumbs to illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/etc\/\" rel=\"tag\">Etc.<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/saab\/\" rel=\"tag\">Saab<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/12\/naias_9-4x_vester.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p> We here at Autoblog want to pass along our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Jan-Willem Vester who passed away last night. Until last spring, Jan-Willem was the communications manager for Saab USA. In that role, the amiable Dutchman was always extremely helpful and prompt in answering our queries about Saab&#8217;s products and business. <\/p>\n<p>Beyond being a great PR guy, Vester was a singularly wonderful advocate for the troubled brand, and we had hoped he would find a prominent position with the Swedish automaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/07\/report-even-while-pursuing-volvo-geely-again-mulling-bid-for-s\/\">should it ever find a new owner<\/a>. He wasn&#8217;t just a hired gun, but a true longtime fan, owning an older 900 back in the Netherlands and new 9-5 Sportcombi for carting around the family. In recent months, Vester had been fighting an inoperable brain tumor to which he finally succumbed. <\/p>\n<p>Jan-Willem is survived by his wife Mariska and their three children.<\/p>\n<p>[Image: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saabhistory.com\/category\/detroit-mi\/\">Saabhistory.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/07\/former-saab-pr-manager-jan-willem-vester-succumbs-to-illness\/\">Former Saab PR manager Jan-Willem Vester succumbs to illness<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:28:00 EST.  Please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\/feed-terms\/\">terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\"><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/07\/former-saab-pr-manager-jan-willem-vester-succumbs-to-illness\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/forward\/19268191\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/07\/former-saab-pr-manager-jan-willem-vester-succumbs-to-illness\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Etc., Saab We here at Autoblog want to pass along our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Jan-Willem Vester who passed away last night. Until last spring, Jan-Willem was the communications manager for Saab USA. In that role, the amiable Dutchman was always extremely helpful and prompt in answering our queries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}