A 1966 Saab 96 built to Monte Carlo 850 specification sold on Bring a Trailer for $63,500 on March 20, 2026 - the highest price any Saab 96 has ever reached on the platform. SaabPlanet analyzes the specification, the restoration, the bidding, and what the result means for the market.
Saab Turbo Club Sweden arrives at Elmia 2026 with a sharply defined lineup - a corrected Viggen Convertible, a 500 hp Saab 9000 shaped over two decades, and a track-focused OG 9-3 pushing beyond factory limits.
A Reddit post from Flint, Michigan set the Saab community in motion. Inside the Sloan Museum of Discovery, the second Saab Aero X - a non-running show model held in GM storage since the 2006 auto show circuit - had been waiting, unseen, for twenty years.
Saab approached vehicle safety as a complete system - one shaped by aviation thinking, structural engineering, and a clear focus on the driver's experience. These ideas still resonate with owners and enthusiasts today.
KM-Tronics has its donor car - a Saab 9-3 Turbo X pulled back from scrapping at a specialist in Apeldoorn and Episode 2 shows why the build starts not with the engine, but with the shell around it. The chassis arrived stripped and mechanically failed, but a Turbo X with XWD architecture and a straight body is the only foundation that makes the B284XR concept coherent. What follows is methodical: butyl damping across the lower body, careful surface preparation, and the kind of work most build videos skip. The goal, as Mark explained directly, is to build the car the way Saab would have - quiet enough that road noise recedes and the engine does the talking.
Saab built just 2,000 Turbo X units worldwide, and only 629 reached the United States. Of those, just 90 were automatic SportCombi wagons. One of them has just appeared on Bring a Trailer, listed at no reserve by Geneva Motorcars in Wisconsin.
A focused Saab gathering returns to Dalfsen on April 4, bringing together two-stroke and V4 owners for a day of parts exchange, discussion, and museum access.
Yann Michel has formally registered SaabZH Asso as a Breton association and announced the second edition of his southern Brittany Saab weekend for June 27–28, 2026 - a pre-1997 dynamic rally along the Lorientaise coast, a campsite dinner in Étel, and a Sunday château concours open to all Saabs and Volvos.
Per Gillbrand was 26 when he helped design one of the most durable engines ever built at Volvo. He then crossed to Saab, gave the world turbocharged passenger cars, and invented the APC system that every modern knock-management strategy descends from. This is the full arc of a career that shaped two automotive legends.
Of the 97 Saab 90s ever registered in the Netherlands, only 36 still hold a valid roadworthiness certificate. On a Sunday in March 2026, Tammeling Autotechniek brought twenty of them together for Project 90 — a photoshoot, a museum visit, and a long-overdue act of reappraisal for one of the rarest classics Trollhättan ever produced. Here is why the Saab 90 has been overlooked for forty years, and why that is about to change.
