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…
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,...
This is Valmet Automotive’s Christmas present to Saab fans: a true revelation for Saab Cabrio enthusiasts - the wooden scale model of the Saab 900 Cabrio NG used for wind tunnel testing! Influenced by General Motors (GM), in 1994 the "New...
Kurt Vonnegut was an American author, but also owner and manager of an SAAB dealership in West Barnstable, Massachusetts, called “Saab Cape Cod.” . In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published fourteen novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five...
Saab dealers and owners have traditionally been as individualist as Saab cars. Saab Showrooms worldwide reflected in the past, the image of the brand. Such was the Saab showroom in Dubai designed by architect Abby Thomas. Saab Cars Showroom located in Dubai-Sharjah road is one of his earlier Design...
An impressive sight from the finishing area of the Valmet Automotive Uusikaupunki plant in Finland from the early 1970s. The first car assembled in the brand new Saab-Valmet factory of Uusikaupunki rolled out of the assembly line on November 13,...
This was The Secret Husqvarna Automobile Project... Not very many people of today know about the Husqvarna automobile project during the first years of the 1940´s. However, some leading Husqvarna employes speculated in a Post World War market. Secret discussions took...
This is a great documentary - it's so relatively recent but seems like another age. While some production runs come to end and bring sweet relief, others mark the passing of an iconic vehicle that had the magic that just can’t be...
This very interesting video from Debut of the Saab 900 SE at the Frankfurt Motor Show in the distant 1993. The 900 SE model was produced in May 1990 and came with 5-doors Irridium Blue with blue-pin stripes down the sides....
Fascinating and interesting stuff. What any of us wouldn’t do to be transported back in time to one of these showrooms right this moment? Some of these bring back memories of our youth (if not the cars themselves, then their...
Such a gem of a picture from the Valmet Automotive photo archives - and true handicraft in car manufacturing. Two Savannah Beige Y06 (Savannbeige) colored Saab 96-bodies in assembly. This color, with the codename Y6, used in 1970 and 1971. The...
