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.
709whp at 2.3 bar ). And then left to look rather stock.
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
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.
it still has a Saab engine
Only the driveline is audi
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.