Thanks for this – I especially loved part 4 on the 9000.  Amazing to think that the 9000 was introduced to the press in 1984 (!!!).  My father purchased a 9000 T-16 fully loaded at the end of 1987, and I remember feeling as a 12 year old boy as if an alien spaceship had landed in our driveway (as that car was so different from anything on the road at the time).  I remember inspecting it inside and out with the neighborhood kids who were just as car crazy as I, and the consensus being that it was cooler than their parents’ Audis, BMWs and Mercedes (I grew up in Luxembourg, so expensive cars were common). I remember reading the press on the last version of the 9000 in 1997 when it went out of production, and the press still hailed it as an amazing car 13 years on.

Most SAAB fans are most fanatical about the 900, which is understandable (my first car was a 1981 four door 900 – there is a magic about them).  That said, although the 900 is the most endearing of Saab’s car offering, the 9000 was by far Saab’s biggest achievement as an automotive manufacturer. 

Thank you!

Ed K.

It didnt come all the way to production then, but it did in the NG9-5.