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…
"Sixties" or "the glorious 30s", The memory of this decade vividly takes us back to the first "Vespas" and "Fiat 500" on the streets of European cities. It was a time of golden economic growth, rising standards and the emergence...
This is the story behind MFI-13, the sports car project that evolved into the Saab Sonett. This story begins a little over 60 years ago: Björn Karlström, a well-known Swedish industrial designer, worked for a company named Nyman. This company...
Hans Erik Lund does not think the Saab interest in Nordfjord would have been the same without Oddmund Barmen - popularly called "Mr. SAAB". All Saab enthusiasts know Erik Carlsson (nicknamed "Carlsson på taket" as well as Mr. Saab), but...
In 1978, Saab introduces a model that causes a lot of noise: the Saab 99 Turbo. A seemingly brave hatchback that makes BMWs, Alfa Romeos and Porsches surprised and envious, at that time. On YouTube you can find a great...
It is expected that Sweden, as the home of Saab cars, has very strong and numerous Saab enthusiast clubs (Svenska Saabklubben). And that's actually how, in addition to a large national organization, there are a large number of local sections...
“The Saab Turbo is exhilarating to drive, it’s so much fun, the price is irrelevant…” – this is what a journalist from a famous car magazine "Road & Track" once wrote after a test drive of the famous Saab 99...
The Senova (“Shenbao”) D series sedan, developed by BAIC (Beijing Auto) was classisv sedan car with premium genes, limousine developed on the basis of the first-gen Saab 9-5. The Chinese car manufacturer BAIC bought tools and technology from Saab a 12...
As many Saab enthusiasts know, the Model Saab 900 has had many different models and variants (only some of them are: SPG, Wagon, Carlsson, CD, GLE...) in its long history, even special ones that were only available in certain markets....
To understand how the very Swedish Saab got involved in the Type 4 project which will give birth to 4 large sedans that will have marked the 80s (Lancia Thema, Fiat Croma, Alfa Romeo 164 and Saab 9000), you have...
The Saab 9000 Cabrio was considered for production in 1989, one prototype was made by the Finnish company Valmet Automotive, but Saab eventually decided not to make the car a production model after all. Also, Valmet made the Opel Calibra...
