This next Saab 900 Turbo may wear a factory badge, but underneath it’s a thoughtfully assembled enthusiast build that mixes classic NG900 styling with hardware borrowed from the later, more potent Saab Viggen. It is offered as not rusty and has a variety of performance parts and turbo styling pieces to make it something that […]
DT Editor-in-Chief Vince Barbarie: Happy Friday DT readers! This next car made me do a double-take. It looked so much like the old Saab 99 Draken that I thought I might need to dip into my project car savings for a second round with the Draken, but this is not just a Saab 900, but […]
The Aero was the hot version of the 9-5, using Saab’s turbocharged four-cylinder B235R with strong midrange torque instead of big horsepower. It is not a screamer, it is a roll-on power car that rewards you for short shifting and pouring on the torque. Most 9-5 Aeros were automatics, so a manual long-roof Aero has […]
Saab never really played by the same rules, and the 9000 CSE is what happens when a Swedish aerospace company decides to build a luxury turbo hatch instead of a conventional commuter sedan. Developed alongside Fiat, Lancia, and Alfa Romeo but engineered the Saab way, the 9000 leaned hard into boost, safety, and long distance […]
The Saab 900 SPG was the sharp edge of Saab’s late 1980s lineup, taking the classic Saab front-wheel-drive hatchback formula and adding stiffer suspension, deeper bodywork, and turbocharging aimed squarely at BMW and Audi buyers who wanted something unique. Built before GM buried the brand, the classic 900 combined aircraft-derived ergonomics, longitudinal turbo power, and […]
This next car comes as a tip from MB who writes: Look man, for $3,800 you can’t expect a mint condition car. This one has a long roof, fun pedal, and Saab weirdness. And stickers. So many stickers. I think perhaps the stickers are being used to hold the driver’s side front fender together, but […]
The early 9-3 is one of those cars that makes you wonder how Saab managed to make a front wheel drive commuter feel like a weirdly competent rally car in disguise. Under the sensible Swedish hatchback profile you get a punchy turbo four, a manual gearbox, and that classic Saab habit of being both practical […]
The 85-91 Saab 900 SPG (Special Performance Group) was the Swedish equivalent of a turbocharged mullet—business in the front, rally car in the back. The SPG was Saab’s factory hot-rod: a limited-production version of the already quirky 900 Turbo, fitted with a more aggressive body kit, uprated suspension, and a boost bump that turned its […]
The Saab 9-4X is the answer to a question nobody asked: “What if Saab made a Cadillac SRX but sprinkled in a dash of Scandinavian quirk?” Built for just one brief model year before Saab’s collapse, the 9-4X is one of the rarest production SUVs of the last two decades—fewer than 800 made it stateside. […]
The YS3G generation Saab 9-5 (built on GM’s Epsilon platform 2010-2012) was Saab’s moonshot — a last gasp flagship that arrived just before the brand fell into bankruptcy. With only a couple of thousand sold worldwide, these cars are unicorns today, especially in the U.S. market. This one packs the 2.8L turbocharged V6 (rated around […]