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…
If you read Saabplanet.com on a regular basis (or if you are just simply crazy about Saab cars), then you know Valmet whose automotive business was originally founded with Saab. Since then, the company has collaborated with many manufacturers such...
After GM took over 50 percent ownership of Saab cars in 1989 and brought in investment money, a number of innovations took place and new Saab models were introduced. Two well-known models to come out of this period were the Saab...
The project was called X36 and started in the early 1970s when the Saab 99 was only a few years old. It was about the car that would be the next big thing - new Saab model. At that time,...
Well, if until now you thought that Saab 9000 was just Saab 9000, then you completely missed the labels CD, CDE, CS, CSE, Aero, Griffin, Carlsson, Turbo16, Talladega... There are so many of them, and although you are probably a...
Can a seat affect the way you drive? Absolutely. That's why Saab has a history of developing class-leading seats with innovative world-firsts. Seats that integrate function and ergonomics with warmth and inspiration. Saab Cars already enjoys a reputation for providing...
The title may deceive you, it is not about the new Saab experimental car, but about a lesser known part of the history of Saab cars. This is actually the title of Saab's October 1960 press release, exactly 60 years...
Wartburg, Dixi, BMW, EMW, Wartburg and soon then Opel. It is the short version of the story of the car factory in East German Eisenach, where the first car was built as early as the end of the 19th century....
One of the strangest aspects of the invasion of the North American continent by SAAB is the manner in which the sales beachhead was established. The first two SAAB 93's arrived in Brooklyn in the spring of 1956. The two...
Saab never managed to lift in the way many fans hoped. But one thing must be clear to everyone: in Trollhättan, thanks to Saab’s brilliant engineers and constructors, there was never a shortage of ideas. Below, we will mention only...
Already in the early fifties, just after Project 92 successfully had got into production, Saab engineers began discussing a successor. As can be seen from Sixten Sason's many sketches of this period, several ideas were tried. They ranged from city-cars...
