SAAB Automobile was founded in Sweden in 1945 when its parent company, Saab AB, began a project to design a small automobile. The first production model, the Saab 92, was launched in 1949. In 1968 the parent company merged with Scania-Vabis, and ten years later the Saab 900 was launched, in time becoming Saab’s best-selling model…
Motoring TV has hosted its fair share of cool car stuff over the last 29 years, but there's perhaps nothing cooler than what the Saab Performance Team brought to the table in 1996. With a handful of Saab 900 Turbos (NG)...
Unfortunately, this is another Saab product that never went into production. Here's a real tour de force of Finnish know-how, the rare Saab V8 engine now located at the Uusikaupunki Valmet Automotive plant. Tootal, only 5 SAAB V8 engines were made, one...
This week marks the very nice anniversary of Saab cars. This week marks the 30-year anniversary of the start of the Saab 900 Convertible production! On May 7, 1986 Valmet Automotive (Finland) issued a press release, announcing the start of the Saab 900...
This is The fastest Saab of its time (up until 2006) - A high-powered version of the Saab 9-3 was the "Viggen". Of course, It was named after the Saab 37 Viggen aircraft. Production ended in 2002. The Saab 9-3 Viggen was...
Here’s the kind of image Saab fans can only expect from Valmet Automotive. After designing, engineering and manufacturing extended versions of the Saab 99 and Saab 900 models in Uusikaupunki, Finns had plans for a Saab 9000 limousine, but these...
Here's a rare and interesting photos from the company Valmet Automotive. Photo is from 1972 and there we see early days of car manufacturing in Uusikaupunki - Saab 96s and Saab 99s as far as the eye can see! In...
Colin Trevor "Cozy" Powell (29 December 1947 – 5 April 1998) was an English rock drummer, who made his name with many major rock bands and artists like The Jeff Beck Group, Rainbow, Robert Plant, Whitesnake and Black Sabbath. On this...
Here's another interesting and unknown story from the history of Saab, which reveals Valmet Automotive. This is Another great find from the Valmet Automotive archives: a sporty looking design for a Saab cabriolet that never reached production. Could this have sold...
Saab has always shown an extraordinary dedication to safety, and many lives have been saved by its designs. According to all international crash safety organisations, drivers and passengers are much more likely to survive a crash in a Saab than in...
Saab 96 - The last one. On January 8, 1980 the very last Saab 96 was completed at the Valmet Automotive plant in Uusikaupunki, Finland! Off the production line, the car was driven by the late great Erik Carlsson directly...
