New Saab model

For those of you who are not familiar with Saab, and I suspect there are a few of you, they are a Swedish car manufacture and I'm not gonna lie I like Saab. They usually try to do new things no matter how crazy it might seem at the time. Apparently it didn't work out because in 2010 (about a month ago) they were nearly bankrupt and GM was forced to sell Saab. At first no one wanted to buy this lone Swedish car company. There were rumors that Swedish super car company Koenigsegg was going to be the ones saving Saab. But I imagine Koenigsegg was too busy doing 0-60 in under 3 seconds to listen to Saab. Instead a company called Spyker bought Saab.

If you've never heard of Spyker I don't necessarily blame you. They only build hand made cars.


Spyker c8 sports car.

Anyway I'm getting off track as usual. I only made this article because I ninja'd my way into a Saab meeting room and hid in the vents in the ceiling.. It turns out Saab is making a new car to help boost sales and get them back on the right track.
Those of you who were around in 1949-1956 Sweden should remember the Saab 92.

I wasn't around back then, or in Sweden for that matter. But apparently the Saab 92 was popular and even made it's way on Swedish postage stamps.

Since this is primarily a high performance tuning blog, let's talk about some performance figures. The Saab 92 came standard in the 50s with 25 raging horses of power. Giving it a top speed of 65mph. Now if you're even more of a speed demon there is a tuned version for rally racing that has a blistering 35 horse power.

I'm sure back in the 50's 35 hp was a lot...

Anyways this is when I'd normally post some pictures of what the car is going to look like and then I'd proceed to make fun of it. However, There aren't any pictures of the new 92 yet. I still have to do some more ninja-ing and get those. But here's the old one.



I really hope the keep that same styling. I like when companies re-invent their old models. Fiat did it with the Fiat 500 and that car became HUGELY popular in Europe.

It looks snazzy too.

Here's the old 500, from the 50's and 60's and what have you.



and now the new redesigned, modern and trendy Fiat 500.




I like this. Take note Saab.

And stop being so bankrupt.