This is a brand new Saab 99 Turbo Coupé from 1977. This is THE one that revolutionized the car engine development: it was the First successful turbocharged production car. Thanks to the Valmet Automotive company for this great photo. Sure, it...
Valmet Automotive posted a very rare picture on it’s Facebook fan page - here's one of the very few images of a flatnose (Saab 900) crash test car in Cabri oversion at the Uusikaupunki plant, in matt orange livery as...
This picture below is One of over a dozen design drawings for the Saab 9000 "Fivebow" convertible concept. The concept car is preserved at the Uusikaupunki Automuseo at the Valmet factory and not much information has been published about it so...
46 years ago today, on November 13, the first car – a Saab 96 – was completed at the Uusikaupunkicar plant (Valmet Automotive). The Saab 96 is an automobile manufactured from 1960 to January 1980, replacing the Saab 93. From 1969 –...
Here's one of the few pictures that were taken at the Uusikaupunki Valmet Automotive plant of the first batch of 400 Saab 900 Convertibles to be delivered to the US dealers. The first prototype aroused enormous interest and in April 1984,...
An impressive sight from the finishing area of the Valmet Automotive Uusikaupunki plant in Finland from the early 1970s. The first car assembled in the brand new Saab-Valmet factory of Uusikaupunki rolled out of the assembly line on November 13,...
Such a gem of a picture from the Valmet Automotive photo archives - and true handicraft in car manufacturing. Two Savannah Beige Y06 (Savannbeige) colored Saab 96-bodies in assembly. This color, with the codename Y6, used in 1970 and 1971. The...
It’s time for celebration! 46 years ago today, on November 13, the first car - a Saab 96 - was completed at the Uusikaupunki car plant (Valmet Automotive). Another important even during 1969 was the first Saab car production in Finland. A...
We recently came across two impressive images of brand new Saab 99s taken in May 1973 at the shipping area called Fields Point in Providence, Rhode Island. These two and four-door sedans were newly offloaded from the ships that brought them...
Could Car makers build better cars by eliminating the assembly line in favor of a team approach to automaking? The car-companies have been trial-and-erroring answers to this question for more than a decades. The result is divided. Team concept can't...
