A New Saab Story
April, 1979
It was logical that the first Saab automobile, a 1946 prototype, looked like an airplane wing with a little passenger bubble on top and four skinny wheels at its rounded corners, logical because the Swedish airplane manufacturer then had only a group of wing designers available to tackle the proposed car project.Since that time, Saab's auto-making arm has progressed from noisy, bathtub-shaped, two-stroke-powered automotive eccentricities to sleek, modern, turbo-powered passenger cars of the high...