Saab was one of the earliest automakers to experiment with turbocharging. The first turbocharged Saab was the 99 model in the late 1970s. This car, first sold in Europe, has exceptionally low mileage, ...
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The sensational Saab 99

In 1969, had you wanted something a cut above the average rear-drive repmobile, you could have splashed out just shy of £1000 on British Leyland’s freshly launched Austin Maxi. Or you could have spent ...
The 1969 Saab 99 arrived as a compact executive car packed with clever engineering and Scandinavian design flair. It also asked owners and mechanics to rethink almost everything they knew about how a ...
Back when Saab was still producing automobiles, they first discovered the incredible Audi-BMW-Mercedes-fighting potential of the executive compact car class with help from the 1968-1984 Saab 99. Just ...
Because turbocharging has become such a household method of increasing power in many cars' engines for a while now, it's hard to imagine a world without precision boost control. Modern sensors usually ...