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200,000 Saab Convertibles from Uusikaupunki

Saab 900 CabrioSaab 900 Cabrio

It’s June and officially summer, The right time to remind ourselves of Saab convertibles.

Saab 900 Convertible

The first one from Valmet Automotive Saab convertibles is the Saab 900 Cabrio – designed and manufactured at Uusikaupunki plant (Finland) only. Presented here are the two generations of the 900 Cabrio.

Saab 900 Convertible

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Saab 900 Turbo Cabrio

Saab 9-3 Convertible

The second convertible model manufactured at Uusikaupunki plant was the Saab 9-3 Convertible. Visually almost identical to the 2nd generation 900 Cabrio, it incorporated well over 1000 technical changes over its predecessor.

The production started in 1998. In total, Valmet Automotive manufactured 198,032 Saab convertibles from 1986 to 2003!

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Saab 9-3 Convertible

Saab 9-3 convertible

Hundred thousandth Saab convertible from the Valmet factory
Hundred thousandth Saab convertible from the Valmet factory

 

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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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