The Project X36 – The Story Behind Saab 900
The project was called X36 and started in the early 1970s when the Saab 99 was only a few years old. It was about the car that would be the next big thing - new Saab model. At that time,...
The project was called X36 and started in the early 1970s when the Saab 99 was only a few years old. It was about the car that would be the next big thing - new Saab model. At that time,...
Saab never managed to lift in the way many fans hoped. But one thing must be clear to everyone: in Trollhättan, thanks to Saab’s brilliant engineers and constructors, there was never a shortage of ideas. Below, we will mention only...
On April 2, 1965, Gudmund's day in Sweden, after several years of planning, the SAAB board started Project Gudmund. This was a project to develop a new and larger car to replace the Saab 96. This new car became the...
Few paint finishes are as eye-catching as Saab's sunny Monte Carlo Yellow, the color that was available exclusively on the 1997 Saab 900 Convertible. The color made its debut in 1991 on a limited-production 5th anniversary edition of the Saab...
Björn Envall (1942) was head of the design department at Saab, and we wrote many times about his work for Saab Automobile. He took over Sason's (another great Saab designer) work at Saab, in 1969 and he held this position until 1992....
For the 30th anniversary of the Saab 9000, the former project manager Gunnar Larsson revealed that Saab secretly explored a Minivan project. Here's a quick recap: from 1983 to 1984, the American supplier ASC was in competition to design a...
1981 the chairman of Saab-Scania America, Robert J. ‘Bob’ Sinclair, saw the opportunity in the market for Saab to offer a high quality car with soft (open) top. The New version was initially lanelled "Saab 900 Cabroiolet" and launched as a...
On the top, very rare picture, you can see Designer Geoff Wardle working on a preliminary 1998 Saab 9-3 scale model in 1993, just one year before the launch of the Saab 900 NG. The NG 900 was principally the work...
Only two years after production of the Saab 99 started, work was begun on a new project - X14. Its Saab 98 - straight from the Saab museum comes this beauty that never came to fruition, but can enjoy it...
Around 1981 the chairman of Saab-Scania America, Robert J. 'Bob' Sinclair, saw the opportunity in the market for Saab to offer a high quality car with soft top. The main car manufacturers in the USA had waived the production of...
