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Retroracer: RWD Saab 99 with 300 horsepower!

One of the most wonderful sensations come when you command a whole handful of power just with the flexing of your right foot.

Horsepower is an intoxicating element when it comes to driving, and this 1974 Saab 99 has a whopping 300 horsepower, and unusually for Saab – power is transmitted to the rear wheels.

Jasper's Saab 99 Turbo
Jasper’s Saab 99 Turbo

Jesper Schwartz from Gothenburg (Sweden) bought an old Saab 99 from his friend. Now this old Saab has a turbo charger and rear wheel drive.

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Saab 99 RWD

After nearly six years Jesper Saab construction finished. A Saab 99 1974 orange original color and accessories of motor sport, as well as US front. But what makes this Saab 99 special is that it is rear wheel drive and a 2.0 liter turbo engine from a newer Saab.

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To make this work, Jesper is combine: a gearbox from Opel Omega, Drive shaft (Cardan shaft) from Volvo and a rear axle from the Ford Scorpio.

The car delivers around 300 horsepower and draws many more expensive and newer cars on the road.

See more of Jesper’s rear-wheel drive Saab 99 in the video above.

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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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