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Book: “Saab – The First 40 Years Of Saab Cars” (1987)

The First 40 Years of Saab Cars

SAAB: The first 40 years of Saab cars” is book (you can find on Amazon – from $29.20 used & new (18 offers)) by Bjorn-Eric Lindh  translated by Tom Byrne in 1987.

There are fewer gaps in one-make historiography as time goes on, and a significant one has now been filled by this grandly produced story of forty years of the popular and individualistic Swedish Saab.

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With lavish colour illustrations, and a comprehensive text taking the history from the Saab’s forerunners and the early three-cylinder DKW-like two-strokes, through the Saab EJ racing cars, Monte Carlo and other competition successes, the Sonnett and on up to the Saab 900 and Saab 9000 series, it is not surprising that Saab (GB) Ltd has made this a presentation volume to commemorate the opening of its new headquarters here.

Book: "Saab - The First 40 Years Of Saab Cars"
Book: “Saab – The First 40 Years Of Saab Cars”

The significant aircraft side of Saab is included in this welcome book, whose foreword is by Sten Wennlo, vice-president of Saab-Scania AB and general manager of Saab’s Car Division.

 

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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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