Retro Review by MotorWeek: 1985 Saab 900 Turbo 16

Everything is changing all the time. Everything may appear to be different, but ibut many underlying fundamentals are still the same.

That’s the feeling we’re left with after watching the Saab retro-review video, in which MotorWeek – television’s longest running automotive series, as if you didn’t already know – takes a look at the 1985 Saab 900 Turbo 16.

In the introduction to the show, the TV host says the following: “The Saab has only been making cars since 1949. and most of them have had a sturdy reputation. So a lot of people have thought of them as kind mundane and ugly ducklings that all changed in 1978. with introduction of the Saab 900 turbo… The 900 was an upgrade of the venerable four-cylinder 99 series laced with v8 like performance it was the first European turbocharged sedan to reach the US…”

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Goran AničićJune 5, 2017

the authorGoran Aničić

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.