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Superb Saab 99 with Audi Quattro AWD

Saab 99 Quattro

This is incredibly fast Saab! Gustav Nilsson (his Build Blog) build This Incredible Saab 99 Quattro is a miracle.

The car started life as an early-build 1969 Saab 99, which had around 85 horsepower.

Gustav Nilsson with his Saab 99 Quattro
Gustav Nilsson with his Saab 99 Quattro
It’s still got a Saab engine B202T, but it’s turned around backwards and mated to the Quattro 4WD system from a C4 generation Audi 100, and a turbocharging to the tune of 700+ horsepower (9.80/227km/t
709whp at 2.3 bar ). And then left to look rather stock.

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So that’d be a 700+ whp Saab 99, that runs a 9.8 second quarter mile. It runs sub-10-second quarter-miles with ease, which includes a few tenths lost for wheelspin and manually shifting gears.

9.8 second car would beat all the fast & furious muppets :)

Best part is it does not look fast, but certainly sounds fast

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Saab 99 Quattro Tests

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Saab 99 Quattro vs tuned Toyota Supra

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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.

5 Comments

  • Too bad someone ruined a superb SAAB 99 by mounting VAG-shit in it.
    Why not use what SAAB themselves choose? The Subaru permanent AWD.

  • Never could figure out why Saab was so late into AWD when it seemed it was the obvious progression for them to follow.

  • they where nerfed by GM, they did develop both an awd system and a v8 for the 9000 but none of it went through after the acquisition by gm. Typical gm thinking since they had another car in the stable they wouldn’t let any other cars be developed.

  • AWD should have been developed well before GM, ie prior to Audi’s Quattro and Subaru’s system. I have been advised it was due to Saab management and the capital required. A shame as they would have had a game changer as per their intro of the turbo.

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