Carl-Ingemar Perstad has preserved a complete early-1980s Trafikmagasinet report from Saab’s Trollhättan factory. The film follows 900 production, confronts the Saab 600, and lets Gunnar Larsson explain the still-secret thinking behind the Saab 9000.
In 1986, Televerket Radio and Saab equipped a Saab 9000 Turbo taxi with an extraordinary collection of communications technology: a mobile phone, taxi radio, pager, television and VHS video system. Period Swedish magazine photographs show taxi owner Hans Nilsson demonstrating the equipment in Karlstad, while rear-seat passengers could even watch video tapes on longer journeys.
A black 1980 Saab 99 Turbo built in Arlöv, exported to Britain and later restored in Sweden is heading to Bilweb Auctions with an estimate approaching $30,000. Its chassis number can also be traced to a Saab Club discussion from 2014.
IntSaab returned to Sweden after ten years, but Bro Park revealed something larger: most early three-day registrations came from abroad, with German Saab owners forming the biggest national group.
Erik Wankerl’s yellow Saab 900 Turbo 2025 concept has resurfaced in print. Portuguese magazine autoDRIVE #91 uses the design study across a four-page column by João Santos Matos, sixteen months after the project first appeared online.
Hedin Parts has now confirmed the €475 including VAT cost of the French Saab Takata airbag operation and published ten service-center entries. For some owners, however, completing the repair means a 500–580 km round trip, adding another practical obstacle to a recall already complicated by Saab’s disappearance as a legal manufacturer.
SKANDIX has introduced a newly manufactured replacement for the discontinued Saab 5584917 windshield washer nozzle. The twin-jet nozzle fits early Saab 9-5 models up to chassis 43011867, with three required per car.
engine and documented French history. Originally planned as one of 366 cars, it became one of only 38 completed before Saab production collapsed in 2011.
Paul Cowland’s Saab 900i Convertible was considered too corroded to save, but Auto Lass rebuilt its damaged structure, repaired the roof and brakes, and secured a fresh MOT. The mismatched panels remain - for now - but the former parts-car candidate is finally back on the road.
Jason Castriota joins Alrik Söderlind’s Fenix series to explain the engineering behind the PhoeniX concept, the advanced next-generation 9-3 and the separate plans for a compact 9-2 and modern Sonett.
