My wife & I bought our SAAB 9-3 Anniversary convertible model in 2002, still looks like new & runs like a dream, it’s our forever car, love it.

Saab was ahead of its time. Wish they were still here. Sucks GM tried to get them to produce trashy unsafe junk. Kudos to Saab for staying true to their morals.

"Born from jets, killed by assholes!"

Clarkson described the typical Saab owner as an Architect or an Engineer.

Nothing today is as unique and Distinctive as a Saab 900 Turbo . VW bought Scania I wish they had bought Saab as well.

I had a 1986 SAAB-Scania 9000T 5MT in high school. Best car I ever had.

I owned a 1985 Saab 900 Turbo.  It was a great car and I was drawn to its uniqueness.

The best car ever made, all saab models

Putting the V4 engine in the SAAB 96 was a mistake as the extra torque cause the gearbox casing to distort which ran the bearings. It needed a rigid casing or better still stuck to the two-stroke. The hooke inner drive shaft joints were suspect too. But eventually the V4 engine blow up.

Carpress kept telling that SAAB 9-3, or 9-5 were a bit boring, but in fact they are beautifull, with a very balanced design, elegant and powerfull. The press just didn’t want to see the inherent beauty.

Can’t wait to visit the Alabama desert.  I had no idea.

2008 aero vert
Lovely car, drive it daily,
Stage two map, sounds glorious.
Summer evenings, hood down,
Tunes playing, exhaust burbling
Lines on the car are perfectly aesthetic, iceblocks look great
Extras I got on mine from factory
Auto dimming mirror, folding mirrors, heated seats, climate control, auto hood lower, sports suspension, etc etc.
Picked it up for £1500 that's around
§2400 dollars.

That must be quite an old documentary - neither the 9-5 nor the switching over from 900 to 9-3 are mentioned.
Sadly, the optimistic note at the end wasn't quite justified.
I bought a well-kept 9-5 one year after SAAB collapsed and like it a lot. Spares availability is good and there are good YouTube vids about how to do common repairs yourself - so I hope to keep mine for many more years to come.

0:45 - Love that old way of a Swede speaking English . It turns out like "Swenglish" XD
But honestly, Swedes are among the very best non native english speaking countries in the world.

So sad they are gone. My dad has a 2011 95 which we love, he does 25 thousand miles a year and it hasn't failed us once. He had a 2007 93 before which got up to 18000 miles. Not sure which car to get not Saabs gone. Thank you for keeping their legacy going.

I had Saab for many years it was one of the best car i ever drive,I think it was too bad for the Goverment of Sweden to let the factory collapse.

got an 2002 9-3 hatch not too long ago and just got a stage 1 tune for it too. These cars are incredible, incredibly overengineered engines, and so much luxury. 20 years old and nearly everything works brand new, im in love with this thing and have big plans for it

Too bad GM ruined one of the finest car makers in the world. Typical GM.

SAAB certainly made some interesting and indeed great cars. The 9000 is one of my all time favourites. Perhaps their weakest point was their lower sales volumes compared to comparable marques which sadly doomed them financially along with GM's failure to understand their design DNA.

i had the saab900s 1986 with 305,000 miles. with every. Untill December 8, 2021 wihen a man ran into and now its total lost,  The best car I have ever had. i pray someone bring them back.