Eh, unfortunately if that would have happened we’d just have some rebodied Golfs with 2.0T engines. It would be preferable to what GM would did with them but they wouldn’t be Saab’s. The fact of the matter is Saab built cars in a way that was not profitable, for what they were they were overbuilt. This was great for customers, because the cars were super safe and lasted much longer than most others, but it wasn’t great for corporate profits. If you could buy a 900 in 1984 and drive it for twenty years, and they didn’t make much money when they sold you that car in the first place because they drop forged the pistons and put bigger wheels and built the frame to absorb impacts the way it did, well, the company wasn’t going to last forever. I love Saab, I miss them dearly, and I’ll always respect them for really giving a damn, for trying harder than most others dared, and for doing the absolute best they possibly could.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 RUclips vids about how to do common repairs yourself - so I hope to keep mine for many more years to come.
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.
One of my first cars was a 1978 Saab 99. I bought it used in 1992. I looooved that car. It was a 4 speed though not the turbo. When I graduated from college I bought a Saab 900 and loved that one too, but it had some reliability issues. I don't think the previous own took very good care of it. I miss that car company. Thanks GM. You really f'ed up a great car company.
Loving this one thanks for sharing this one I'm a big fan of saab one day would love to visit the museum they have so many things would love to see and try to drive thanks for sharing this one can't wait to come and visit very soon
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.
Great brand had the pleasure of selling and driving Saabs , miss them, would love to see their return. GM misunderstood the brand and basically killed them.
I miss my Saab. My first car was a VW Bug. I loved that damn car. Except in the New England winters. I paid 3K for a baby blue Saab 900. Nothing fancy. The heated seats, and sure footed. I did drive a beat up 99 turbo for a winter. It fell apart. Well, the turbo worked great...
SAAB and Volvo still rule the world. (To an extent). Good job. I am looking for a cheap car at the moment. If I can find a cheap 900/9000- model, I am delighted.
I am driving a vauxhall/ opel signum with a saab engine in it, z20net/ b207l , very good engine, the most reliable engine i ever seen, i am so sorry that these engines are not made anymore, but this is theyr( these big car companies) policy now, to make shit engines, for more profit
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.
I know it won’t happen :( But I wish Saab came back ..... I’ve had BMW’s to Lexus’s But when I just recently bought a Saab 9-3 I realised what I had missed .... Long live Saab
The moment GM stepped in was the beginning of the end of Saab. They wanted SAAB to change tack and merely rebadge existing GM designed cars with just body and badge changes but same GM mechanicals and platforms. If SAAB had gone this route, the public would have seen them for what they really were and would probably have refused to buy them, but kicking your parent company in the pants and refusing to comply to save costs was the straw that broke the camel's back causing GM to say "enough".
I wasn't too much a fN of the design in truth but I have driven a few and I hVe to say they knew exactly where the power band needed to be. 40-70 mph was amazing power for what is a family car. Shame they have gone.
SAAB ruined itself. GM gave them a perfectly acceptable base which they could have altered. Look at VW Group it is able to do with the same basic chassis and other unseen parts that are astronomical to design and engineer but can sell from basic to premium with just minor alterations. SAAB could have done the same thing but they thought themselves to good. They constantly exceeded development budgets . Most people are not auto enthusiasts and couldn't care less if the SAAB shared components with other cars. SAAB wasn't premium enough to sell well in the executive/prestige market but too expensive to sell in the mass market. Quirky and odd looking may appeal to some but is isn't a recipe for long term success in a competitive market.
When General Motors stepped in to bailout Saab, they put specific instructions on the company to 'do as they say' When it came time to replace the 9000 with the Saab 9-3, they handed them a Vauxhall Cavalier on which to base their new model on and said the following to try lynch some fiscal sense into them 'change nothing but the body and the badges, nice and cheap, body and badges', but this was lost on them and they ignored GM's orders to do so However when it came time to base a brand new model on the Vauxhall Vectra, GM again went in again to the Swedish company and said again, "This time, we mean it, body and badges, NOTHING ELSE", but again this was ignored and when GM sent an accountant across to Trollhatten Sweden to find out why they were costing the company so much, she noticed the sat-nav system in the new Saab wasn't a GM unit, it was Saab's own developed sat-nav which was far more expensive than a GM sat-nav However, come the time when the next new Saab was to be developed on the replacement Vauxhall Insignia, GM having had enough of Saab's defiance, just pulled the plug and the company got passed over to Spyker in the Netherlands. When Spyker NL realised they had to get the new Vauxhall Insignia based Saab into showrooms quickly, they did so and this meant it went out on sale undeveloped and was a commercial flop and as a result, Saab folded entirely. The tale of that sad story is never go against the company who is funding you to help you survive if they tell you to follow orders because it will only go one-way.
@@12345678981010 How often in is history as a independent was SAAB profitable? SAAB and Volvo both needed to be partnered with a volume producer to be able to afford R & D. My father was a engineer at OPEL and would talk all the time about how arrogant the people from SAAB were when they were told to use OPEL components. Holden Saturn Cadillac and Vauxhall were all able to take the same components and made cars that sold well. Isn't Volvo a subsidiary of a Chinese company now?
@@williamegler8771 the chinese owns a major part of the volvo stock the second bigest owner on about 22 procent is the swedish ppm ppm= peoples penision fund. the chinese did provide volvo with money and then said here do your thing and it worked so well volvo is on the rise and are makeing record sales evry year. thank good for the chinese and not ford who stole the best volvo had put in the fords and gave volvo cheap plastic compionents............. saab needed a chinese owner like geely not an american bloodsucking gm.
@@12345678981010 Ever since the Chinese got involved in Volvo their quality has declined. In one of Volvo's biggest export markets , the United States, customer satisfaction surveys show them to be some of the most unreliable on the road. Low resale, high maintenance and repair costs and low owner retention rate. Few owners buy another....
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.
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.
that aninmated movie made me buy a 9000cs 2.3 16v and understand the definition of this brand . the car had 300k km's + when i got it and it was amazing
One of the most underrated brand and way ahead of it´s time. Shame that is now gone......
The cars, but Gripen is the best flying Meatball
@@makurei6888 nope it,s not-but a good one anyway -not the best
More reliable than all the American cars That I've bought combinef no lie, I don't understand
*its
no shame for such crappy cars
Nothing today is as unique and Distinctive as a Saab 900 Turbo . VW bought Scania I wish they had bought Saab as well.
Eh, unfortunately if that would have happened we’d just have some rebodied Golfs with 2.0T engines. It would be preferable to what GM would did with them but they wouldn’t be Saab’s. The fact of the matter is Saab built cars in a way that was not profitable, for what they were they were overbuilt. This was great for customers, because the cars were super safe and lasted much longer than most others, but it wasn’t great for corporate profits. If you could buy a 900 in 1984 and drive it for twenty years, and they didn’t make much money when they sold you that car in the first place because they drop forged the pistons and put bigger wheels and built the frame to absorb impacts the way it did, well, the company wasn’t going to last forever. I love Saab, I miss them dearly, and I’ll always respect them for really giving a damn, for trying harder than most others dared, and for doing the absolute best they possibly could.
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.
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.
"Born from jets, killed by assholes!"
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
basicly you own luxury opel
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.
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 RUclips vids about how to do common repairs yourself - so I hope to keep mine for many more years to come.
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.
Clarkson described the typical Saab owner as an Architect or an Engineer.
Can’t wait to visit the Alabama desert. I had no idea.
One of my first cars was a 1978 Saab 99. I bought it used in 1992. I looooved that car. It was a 4 speed though not the turbo. When I graduated from college I bought a Saab 900 and loved that one too, but it had some reliability issues. I don't think the previous own took very good care of it. I miss that car company. Thanks GM. You really f'ed up a great car company.
Uhm, you mean to say "fucked up"?
The best car ever made, all saab models
No!
I owned a 1985 Saab 900 Turbo. It was a great car and I was drawn to its uniqueness.
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.
totally agree
Loving this one thanks for sharing this one I'm a big fan of saab one day would love to visit the museum they have so many things would love to see and try to drive thanks for sharing this one can't wait to come and visit very soon
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.
Great brand had the pleasure of selling and driving Saabs , miss them, would love to see their return. GM misunderstood the brand and basically killed them.
absolutely amazing.. saab 1947-2012..to bad
I miss my Saab. My first car was a VW Bug. I loved that damn car. Except in the New England winters.
I paid 3K for a baby blue Saab 900. Nothing fancy. The heated seats, and sure footed.
I did drive a beat up 99 turbo for a winter. It fell apart. Well, the turbo worked great...
SAAB and Volvo still rule the world. (To an extent). Good job. I am looking for a cheap car at the moment. If I can find a cheap 900/9000- model, I am delighted.
Did you find one ? I used to drive a 9-3 and a 9000 Talladega . Saab s gone for ever. Too bad. I’m living in Japan now.
I am driving a vauxhall/ opel signum with a saab engine in it, z20net/ b207l , very good engine, the most reliable engine i ever seen, i am so sorry that these engines are not made anymore, but this is theyr( these big car companies) policy now, to make shit engines, for more profit
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.
I’m just heart broken Koenigsegg didn’t purchase Saab in 2009 :(
I know it won’t happen :(
But I wish Saab came back .....
I’ve had BMW’s to Lexus’s
But when I just recently bought a Saab 9-3
I realised what I had missed ....
Long live Saab
Who knows... maybe it will come back ;)
I love these vehicles!
The moment GM stepped in was the beginning of the end of Saab. They wanted SAAB to change tack and merely rebadge existing GM designed cars with just body and badge changes but same GM mechanicals and platforms. If SAAB had gone this route, the public would have seen them for what they really were and would probably have refused to buy them, but kicking your parent company in the pants and refusing to comply to save costs was the straw that broke the camel's back causing GM to say "enough".
that 900... beautiful
Sweden did a great job
Aaab
My dad worked on the engines that powered these cars at canley Coventry
I love my 07 93 aero turbo 2.8
every one just talks about their cars , completly ignoring that they made some excellent fighter jets
I own a 2002 Saab 9-5 Aero Station Wagon
poor you
In Carlsons car the front headlights in 4:30 on his saab 92 is like a fish tank lol
Yo actualmente soy dueño de mi segundo Saab 93 tid del 2010 un pena que esta empresa dejara de fabricar automoviles una gran pena
This video about SAAB was very well done.
Please do one on PANHARD. They also have a very interesting history.
ruclips.net/video/9IB5MjlHzMs/видео.html
Typo
@@Robr139
Which means??
My mistake
I wasn't too much a fN of the design in truth but I have driven a few and I hVe to say they knew exactly where the power band needed to be. 40-70 mph was amazing power for what is a family car. Shame they have gone.
I love the SAAB
Right here I knew what SAAB means ...
Sierra alpha alpha bravo
0:50
S-swedish A-aircraft AB- men’s Ltd
SAAB
Very good thank you:)
Maybe one day, it will resurrect again.
It lives on in limited form as NEVS
@@sutherlandA1 Yes but without name.
no it will never be named saab again cause the military branch has taken back the name.
Saab always missed
i wishd id had some day 900i. 99 turbo and 99 ems
Does anyone know what year this video was filmed?
1995.
i wishd id had some day 7+9-16 saabs 1. 99 turbo 2. 900 gls 3. 99 ems 4. 99 turbo 5. 9-3 6. 9-5 7. 9000 turbo 8. 900i 9. 99 ems 10. 96 v4 11. 9-5 12. 9-3
Topp
20:10 😭
They produced this kind of car's design in 70's..it is an allien at that time..that's why failed!!!
17:59 There is no desert in Alabama. 🤣
Good observation!
TO BAD ITS HISTORY I WE ALWAYS LIKED SAABS I WISHD ID HAD SOME DAY 19 SAABS
i cri evry tiem
Sadd
My friend has a 60th anniversary 9-3 and he loves it!
I love to drive my Saab 9.3 every single day. So sad that the brand doesen't exist any more....
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.
Too bad GM ruined one of the finest car makers in the world. Typical GM.
SAAB ruined itself.
GM gave them a perfectly acceptable base which they could have altered.
Look at VW Group it is able to do with the same basic chassis and other unseen parts that are astronomical to design and engineer but can sell from basic to premium with just minor alterations.
SAAB could have done the same thing but they thought themselves to good.
They constantly exceeded development budgets .
Most people are not auto enthusiasts and couldn't care less if the SAAB shared components with other cars.
SAAB wasn't premium enough to sell well in the executive/prestige market but too expensive to sell in the mass market.
Quirky and odd looking may appeal to some but is isn't a recipe for long term success in a competitive market.
When General Motors stepped in to bailout Saab, they put specific instructions on the company to 'do as they say'
When it came time to replace the 9000 with the Saab 9-3, they handed them a Vauxhall Cavalier on which to base their new model on and said the following to try lynch some fiscal sense into them 'change nothing but the body and the badges, nice and cheap, body and badges', but this was lost on them and they ignored GM's orders to do so
However when it came time to base a brand new model on the Vauxhall Vectra, GM again went in again to the Swedish company and said again, "This time, we mean it, body and badges, NOTHING ELSE", but again this was ignored and when GM sent an accountant across to Trollhatten Sweden to find out why they were costing the company so much, she noticed the sat-nav system in the new Saab wasn't a GM unit, it was Saab's own developed sat-nav which was far more expensive than a GM sat-nav
However, come the time when the next new Saab was to be developed on the replacement Vauxhall Insignia, GM having had enough of Saab's defiance, just pulled the plug and the company got passed over to Spyker in the Netherlands.
When Spyker NL realised they had to get the new Vauxhall Insignia based Saab into showrooms quickly, they did so and this meant it went out on sale undeveloped and was a commercial flop and as a result, Saab folded entirely.
The tale of that sad story is never go against the company who is funding you to help you survive if they tell you to follow orders because it will only go one-way.
@@12345678981010 How often in is history as a independent was SAAB profitable?
SAAB and Volvo both needed to be partnered with a volume producer to be able to afford R & D.
My father was a engineer at OPEL and would talk all the time about how arrogant the people from SAAB were when they were told to use OPEL components.
Holden Saturn Cadillac and Vauxhall were all able to take the same components and made cars that sold well.
Isn't Volvo a subsidiary of a Chinese company now?
@@williamegler8771 the chinese owns a major part of the volvo stock the second bigest owner on about 22 procent is the swedish ppm ppm= peoples penision fund. the chinese did provide volvo with money and then said here do your thing and it worked so well volvo is on the rise and are makeing record sales evry year. thank good for the chinese and not ford who stole the best volvo had put in the fords and gave volvo cheap plastic compionents.............
saab needed a chinese owner like geely not an american bloodsucking gm.
@@12345678981010 Ever since the Chinese got involved in Volvo their quality has declined.
In one of Volvo's biggest export markets , the United States, customer satisfaction surveys show them to be some of the most unreliable on the road.
Low resale, high maintenance and repair costs and low owner retention rate.
Few owners buy another....
RIP Saab
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.
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.
For The Discovery Channel
Executive Producer
Suzy Geller Wolf
I hope that one day they will renew and show the West real cars
78 Turbo and 9-3 Viggen were my favs.. Too bad they’re gone.. All good things must come to an end! Made in Trollhattan!
Saab Sonnett II and Volvo P1800 are the most timeless Swedish cars in my opinion. Not sure if the entertainment system supports Bluetooth though.
that aninmated movie made me buy a 9000cs 2.3 16v and understand the definition of this brand . the car had 300k km's + when i got it and it was amazing
Loved my 900-very fun and reliable, hated my 9000-nothing but junk.
I had a 1986 SAAB-Scania 9000T 5MT in high school. Best car I ever had.
saab history how never came again
SAAB come back!
7:03 cracks me up lol
Alabama desert?
I really like Saab and I don't know why lol also just to clarify, there's no such thing as an Alabama desert
I want a Saab
I LIKE IT.... I WISHD ID HAD SOME DAY 96 V4. 99 EMS. 900 GLE. 99 TURBO AND 99 TURBO GREEN
to bad there is anymoore saab
Always liked SAAB .-)
Thanks to GM!
Ah an overpaid posh British vet claiming to be an "individualistic Saab owner".
......well no change in the BS here then.
S=Sadly
A= Absent
A= Always
B= Broken
William Egler
W=weird
i=Irelevant
L=lame
L=loser
I=inbreed
a=amateur
M=mongoloid
@@12345678981010 Somebody is offended.
I'll take Saab over {B}owel {M}ovement on {W}heels, Merfeces, or Poopche hands down; No apologies! FYIYDLI!