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Saab 96 – The Last One

Saab 96 / The last one

Saab 96 – The last one. On January 8, 1980 the very last Saab 96 was completed at the Valmet Automotive plant in Uusikaupunki, Finland!

Off the production line, the car was driven by the late great Erik Carlsson directly to the Saab museum.

The number 730,607 denotes the total production run of the Saab 92 / 93 / 95 / 96 models.

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The Last one Saab 96 at Valmet automotive

Alos interesting, the first car assembled in the brand new Saab-Valmet factory of Uusikaupunki rolled out of the assembly line on November 13, 1969. The car, a Saab 96, was delivered to the president of Finland, Mr. Urho Kekkonen.

saab 96 in Valmet
Saab 96 in Valmet Automotive

This factory produced a total of 65,887 Saab 96, from 1969–1980.

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Last Saab 96 And Erik Carlsson
Last Saab 96 And Erik Carlsson

On January 8, 1980 an era came an end (you can see in the picture above). The very last Saab 96 was delivered, and it was from the production line of the Uusikaupunki plant. The rally legend, Mr. Saab, Erik “På Taket” Carlsson fetched the car personally and drove it from Uusikaupunki to Trolhättan

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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