SAAB Concepts

Saab 906 Turbo – Biggest Saab Ever Built

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Here’s another interesting Saab concept that is conceived and created by designer Leif Mellberg (who was also the designer of Saab EV1 prototype, Saab 900 Speedster, Saab Mayo, and Saab Gullwing) – six wheeler Saab 906 Turbo – Biggest Saab Ever Built.

We’ve covered a couple of Mellberg’s custom Saabs in the past, though this one may be the most distinctive yet.

Saab 906 turbo
Saab 906 turbo

This is his project in 1984, and as a basis served classic 1981 Saab 900 GLS. Basic Saan 900 was extended 60 cm and Saab 906 measured a total of 530 cm. Additionally, Saab is in some places laterally extended,  with 18 cm at its widest point. It looked incredibly long in profile.

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Saab 906 Turbo 6-wheel

Saab 906 was full variety of gadgets, such as video, stereo system with 16 speakers, fridge / freezer / heating cabinets, Police radios, radar detectors, Cruise Computer, alarm etc – Probably,  at the time, most well-equipped car in Sweden.

The car did not serve as a transport vehicle such as Leif originally planned, and became a rolling advertisement for his company Mellbergs custom.

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Unfortunately, the car was fifteen years ago ended up at the junkyard in Varberg:

saab 906 at junkyard

Goran Aničić
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.

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