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…
It’s time for celebration! 46 years ago today, on November 13, the first car - a Saab 96 - was completed at the Uusikaupunki car plant (Valmet Automotive). Another important even during 1969 was the first Saab car production in Finland. A...
We recently came across two impressive images of brand new Saab 99s taken in May 1973 at the shipping area called Fields Point in Providence, Rhode Island. These two and four-door sedans were newly offloaded from the ships that brought them...
Here's an interesting notes on the history of Saab and Saab dealers that happened 50 years ago — 1965! Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Meeker, Kunkle Motors, organized a tour in 1965 to SAAB-Sweden headquarters in Linkoping, Sweden. Old Saab Factory On this day...
Could Car makers build better cars by eliminating the assembly line in favor of a team approach to automaking? The car-companies have been trial-and-erroring answers to this question for more than a decades. The result is divided. Team concept can't...
From time to time, the company Valmet Automotive boost our happiness with some new detail on the history of the company, but in the same time the history of Saab brand. This time, Valmet published so far unpublished picture of Saab 99s on the...
This Saab 99 was intended to be a solution to soaring fuel prices in the 1970s: the Saab 99 petro... The dual fuel system enabled using regular gasoline and kerosene – see the separate fuel tank caps! The dual fuel...
The original idea of the Saab 9-3 Viggen was conceived in October 1994 by Saab Automobile AB’s Special Vehicles Operations (SVO) team led by a Peter Leonard and the Oxfordshire, England-based TWR Group. The Saab 900 Concept Coupe was the...
Wired magazine that reports on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy and politics, published today known interesting story about Saab Drive-by-Wire concept from 1992. Of course, for them too, Saab was always quirky in a cool way. The test car SAAB...
This is video from contest Sweden's Hottest Saab 1982 (in Swedish: Sveriges Häftigaste Saab 1982 ), which was recorded during the contest at Hedenlunda Castle. It was the final Contest for the most beautiful Saab of that time in Sweden. This film was made...
