Rare video: Saab Performance Team

May 30, 2016Goran AničićNo commentBengt Dahl Saab Performance Team

Motoring TV has hosted its fair share of cool car stuff over the last 29 years, but there’s perhaps nothing cooler than what the Saab Performance Team brought to the table in 1996.

With a handful of Saab 900 Turbos (NG) at its disposal, the Saab Performance Team put on a synchronized driving display for the ages.

And the best seat in the house was reserved for Motoring TV cameraman Dan Bailey, who put himself right in the thick of the action at Atlanta Motor Speedway 20 years ago.

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It is interesting, in the video appears team leader Bengt Dahl, with whom Bailey made interview. This team consisted of: Kjell Olofsson, Kent Andersen, Jean Pennholm, Kenneth Backlund, and Bengt Dahl:

(This segment appeared on Episode 9 of Motoring 1998.)

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Goran AničićMay 30, 2016

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For over 15 years, Goran Aničić has been passionately focused on Saab automobiles and everything related to them. His initial encounter with Saab cars took place back in 2003 when the first Saab 9-3 and sedan version were introduced. At that moment, he was captivated by the car's Scandinavian design logic and top-notch engineering, and everything that followed stemmed from that first encounter. Later on, through his work at the editorial team of the Serbian automotive magazines "Autostart" and later "AutoBild," he had the opportunity to engage more closely with Saab vehicles. In 2008, he tested the latest Saab cars of that time, such as the Saab 9-3 TTiD Aero and Saab 9-3 Turbo X. In 2010, as the sole blogger from the region, he participated in the Saab 9-5ng presentation in Trollhättan, Sweden. Alongside journalists from around the world, he got a firsthand experience of the pinnacle of technological offerings from Saab at that time. Currently, Goran owns two Saabs: a 2008 Saab 9-3 Vector Sportcombi with a manual transmission, and a Saab 9-3 Aero Griffin Sport Sedan from the last generation, which rolled off the production line in Trollhättan in December 2011.