Comments on: The Saab 90000

By: Alexander L J Mogren

Alexander L J Mogren — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:58:00 +0000

actually, the Saab 90000 is quite familiar. Have you anytime wondered why the 9-5 is named 9-5, when it would be more natural being named 90000? (as it was a successor to the 9000)
Well, the plan was (i i have got it correctly) to name the 9-5 90000, but at that time the SOS-number was still “90000″ in Sweden (being changed to “112″ a time thereafter)
So I think it was because of legal issues that the 9-5 is named 9-5.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:13:00 +0000

Haha, totally had me going there about a mythical Saab 90000

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:38:00 +0000

I didn’t see the 98 when I was at the museum three weeks ago. And it was one of the cars I have always wanted to see.
I think it is brown, but I have seen a picture of it in a bright orange colour. Or are there two 98:s ?

By: Magnus Enorson

Magnus Enorson — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:44:00 +0000

The 98 didn’t just happen in theory, it exists in practice too – although only as a one-off prototype, currently residing at the Saab museum here in Trollhättan. It is kind of a hatchback version of the SAAB 96 – mid-way between a 96 and a 95, if you will.

By: John Anderson

John Anderson — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:43:00 +0000

Kroum was merely “Taking Care of Business” (Bachmann-Turner Overdrive).

It’s the only Canadian thing to do when faced with an existential challenge.

Happy Canada Day, Kroum!

By: Frank Wulfers

Frank Wulfers — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:46:00 +0000

I have been a Saab fan for a relative short time (5 years) compared to others. A couple of years ago, I sold my Saab and bought an old ’90 Mercedes 300 E-class. It was one of those cars I have always wanted to own since I got my drivers license. While there are several large MB forums, I felt out of place there and in the Saab community where I made many friends. I sold the Benz 9 months later and picked up my current 2005 9-5 Aero wagon. Best decision I made!

With Saab, their cars pulled me in and the great, friendly and relatively small community of Saab fans made me stay.

By: eggsngrits

eggsngrits — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:37:00 +0000

SaabCentral.com. That’s my techie/enthusiast hang these days. 90,000 fans? Let’s get just 25% of these folks to buy in the next year and Saab would double in size in the span of four years. How do I do that math? The effect multiplies — with 20,000+ new cars on the road comes more visibility, and thus more sales……

By: Web Saab Story SAABLOG-IN

Web Saab Story SAABLOG-IN — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:11:00 +0000

Nice title

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:36:00 +0000

Makes me think of the guy on Sesame Street who always wanted to paint a 9. He was one of my favourite characters there.

Nice work Kroum.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:42:00 +0000

I think I have read somewhere of an actual Saab 90000. It was a humorous name given to an ambulance prototype built on a 9000 chassis.
Humorous because 90000 was the swedish emergency telephone number before 112.