Many Saab car owners (especially older models) have never heard of Valmet Automotive, and many don’t know that their favorite Saab car – is a car made in Finland. Also, you may not have known, 99 was also manufactured in Trollhättan and Belgium. Of courese, in the opinion of many Saab owners and connoisseurs of the brand and the auto industry in general, Saab before GM was truly Swedish, everything else doesn’t matter much.
As it is now, it does not matter where the car is built, whether it is Valmet (Finland), Ghent (Gelgium) or Graz (Austria). In all these European cities and plants of the automobile industry, Saab produced these legendary cars. Everyone knows that Saab was a Swedish car manufacturer but in Finland they had a different view. They are very proud of their Finnish Saab – they said.
This is just a snippet from a Swedish TV series “Trafikmagasinets“, which in Sweden is considered one of the best in car-themed. The year of production was 1984, the show aired on SVT television, and the presenter was Carl-Ingemar Perstad.
Interesting, According to Perstad, since both Saab and the French Talbot (Horizon and Solara models) were manufactured on the same factory line in Valmet Automotive (Saab-Valmet), many of the parts for Saab were installed by the Finns in Talbot. And suddenly the French cars had become so much better than the French ones.
