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PBS Review: “Great Cars – SAAB”

SAAB 2003 9-3 Sport Sedan Launch FilmSAAB 2003 9-3 Sport Sedan Launch Film

This is old, but nice video From the PBS TV series on automobiles “Great Cars”.

As they say in this TV series: “Saab has created many supreme automotive designs. But Saab marches to its own tune. And breaking from tradition has enhanced Saab’s appeal. Saab’s independence can be traced to its precarious development on the wings of Sweden’s post-war aviation industry. Its engineers and designers gambled on their ability to transform their aviation experience into automobile manufacturing. Today, their efforts are admired worldwide. But Saab’s transformation from wings to wheels, has been a long and difficult journey…

We don’t know when it was filmed because the newest car they showed was the Saab 9-3 cabrio (and I generation of Saab 9-5), so no 9-2x, 9-7x (but in the introduction they mentioned Saab having an SUV).  Maybe because the 9-2x and the 9-7x are not “true” Saabs, they weren’t mentioned.

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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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