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‘Nothing On Earth Comes Close’ – Tony Scott’s film for Saab

Saab Video Ad by Tony ScottSaab Video Ad by Tony Scott

Because of this Saab ad Tony Scott (1944–2012) was hired to direct “Top Gun“. Producers Bruckheimer and Simpson wanted an awesome visual director for their film. When they saw this ad, they found the right man for the job and the rest was history.

Look at the video at 0:16. There you see a unice stretced Saab 900CD “Corps Diplomatique” built in the Finish, Valmet Factory in Nystad in 502 ex between 1981 to 1986.

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Look at the stretced wheelbase, and compare it whit the ” regular Saab 900″.

The Saab 900CD was the following production from the Saab Finlandia wich were orderd in a NOT serial number. The Saab Finlandia started whit it´s base on the Saab 99 CC GLE in 1976.

Top Gun became one of the highest-grossing films of 1986, pulling in more than $176 million and making a star of its young lead, Tom Cruise. 

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Interesting, Tony Scott spent final days researching Top Gun 2 with Tom Cruise. Also, British artist Auburn Hodgson recently made a tribute to this video creation, so watch this same video but in 3D low-poly version.

Goran Aničić
the authorGoran Aničić
For over 15 years, Goran Aničić has been passionately focused on Saab automobiles and everything related to them. His initial encounter with Saab cars took place back in 2003 when the first Saab 9-3 and sedan version were introduced. At that moment, he was captivated by the car's Scandinavian design logic and top-notch engineering, and everything that followed stemmed from that first encounter. Later on, through his work at the editorial team of the Serbian automotive magazines "Autostart" and later "AutoBild," he had the opportunity to engage more closely with Saab vehicles. In 2008, he tested the latest Saab cars of that time, such as the Saab 9-3 TTiD Aero and Saab 9-3 Turbo X. In 2010, as the sole blogger from the region, he participated in the Saab 9-5ng presentation in Trollhättan, Sweden. Alongside journalists from around the world, he got a firsthand experience of the pinnacle of technological offerings from Saab at that time. Currently, Goran owns two Saabs: a 2008 Saab 9-3 Vector Sportcombi with a manual transmission, and a Saab 9-3 Aero Griffin Sport Sedan from the last generation, which rolled off the production line in Trollhättan in December 2011.

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