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…
Greta Molander (23 August 1908 – 20 March 2002) was a Swedish/Norwegian rally driver and writer. She was born in Ystad, and grew up in Nyköping and Stockholm. She started in her first rally in 1929. Her Monte Carlo Rally...
This is a brand new Saab 99 Turbo Coupé from 1977. This is THE one that revolutionized the car engine development: it was the First successful turbocharged production car. Thanks to the Valmet Automotive company for this great photo. Sure, it...
This Stunning color is called Sky Blue (It reminds on Electric Blue from the previous generations (around MY06) but this is a nice and safe colour) and it was produced only three Saab 9-3 Griffin cars with that color code....
Valmet Automotive posted a very rare picture on it’s Facebook fan page - here's one of the very few images of a flatnose (Saab 900) crash test car in Cabri oversion at the Uusikaupunki plant, in matt orange livery as...
Audience members surround the Saab Performance Team as they leave after the Saab Pilot Wanted show May 26, 2007 in Shanghai, China. The show is part of events held to mark the 60th anniversary of Swedish automaker Saab. The Saab...
This is very interesting footage from Saab meeting at Mittsverigebanan racetrack located outside Härnösan in Sweden, May 24, 2014 Just listen to the fantastic sound of Saab's 96 V4 engine. Its crisp and perfectly metallic resonance never gets old. It also has a nice...
This picture below is One of over a dozen design drawings for the Saab 9000 "Fivebow" convertible concept. The concept car is preserved at the Uusikaupunki Automuseo at the Valmet factory and not much information has been published about it so...
Heuschmid is a German tune and service center for Saab known from the 80's (located near Munich), but this Tuning house is still active today and offers tuning for Saab Cars (900, 9000, 9-3, 9-5). Company founder Johann Heuschmid built the rallye-engines...
46 years ago today, on November 13, the first car – a Saab 96 – was completed at the Uusikaupunkicar plant (Valmet Automotive). The Saab 96 is an automobile manufactured from 1960 to January 1980, replacing the Saab 93. From 1969 –...
Here's one of the few pictures that were taken at the Uusikaupunki Valmet Automotive plant of the first batch of 400 Saab 900 Convertibles to be delivered to the US dealers. The first prototype aroused enormous interest and in April 1984,...
