1992 Saab 900 Review - Comfortable Office Hours

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The thoughts, feelings, and opinions expressed in this video are the sole thoughts of Zack and no one else. The thoughts expressed in this video do not reflect the owner, dealership, or organization that owns the vehicle featured. The purpose of this video is to provide entertainment with the hope that you will take what you see and formulate your own opinions. DO NOT make a financial decision based off of this video.



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Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Drivetrain
2:23 - Interior
3:36 - BFB Test
3:45 - Interior
4:50 - Back Seats
5:20 - Trunk / Cargo Space
5:51 - Exterior
6:25 - Final Thoughts
8:38 - Outro

[stevenorlikowski]

The decline of the Swedish auto industry is a real Saab story.

[danmccarthy]

I love that you'd mentioned how this car reminds you of the 80s and 90s.... its design actually dates back to the 1960s with the 99/90... even then it was so ahead of its time that it did not seem at all out of date almost 30 years later. I'd love to hear your take on an even earlier Saab like the 95 or 96.

[thomaslatapy]

What a communicative enthusiasm ! i a m a 900 classic driver un France for more than 20 years with the same loved 900 T8 1989's and your review is really pertinent. And i love your final comparaison with the teacher climate. Thanks !

[ianbrade]

It's the solidity of the controls, matched by the over-engineered build quality and the amount of thought that went into the design. That's why it speaks to you.

[contemporaryartist]

Excellent, thank you. I have this exact car but with turbo. Smooth daily driver with 400k under its belt. Masterpiece.

[sneaks]

My favorite car of all time! I had 6 Saabs over the years! (Real Saabs, not the GM stuff) 😊 Thanks for reviewing!

[pierrevargen]

My family has owned both Saab and Volvo since the 50's and had every car until the 940 and 9-3. Really wish they had kept at least one of the older models like the 93 or the amazon. I became a Saab guy however and have a 3 and a 5 door Saab 900i from 87 and 88

[cliffordkuhn]

I owned a 2004 Saab 9-3 Convertible for 13 years and just sold it this month. SAAB's are great cars with plenty of parts still available. Just getting harder to find mechanics that will work on them. Great review! Would love to see more SAAB reviews. Also check out auto autopsy. He is a great youtuber with lots of SAAB videos. He is currently restoring one that looks just like this one.

[siliconinsect]

I had a 1988! Moved into a house and couldn't get the title for it. That 900s was the best demo car -- a rolling brick that could drive through other cars. Towards the end it had no windows, no lights, but the heated seats still worked. Then the City of East Cleveland accused me of being a nuisance and confiscated it.

Great vid as usual!

[bwofficial]

I was just thinking yesterday that I haven't seen a pre-GM Saab in years. Great cars with great engineering, just too complicated and quirky for their own good. When you look at some of the engineering decisions it's impressive how much thought went into these cars. The key will lock the shifter in reverse. The windshield is curved for better visibility. The controls that you're going to look and and touch the most like the radio and headlight switch are higher up to be closer to the line of sight and the steering wheel. Later Saabs had a button that would turn off all interior lights except for the speedometer and any gauge that needed immediate attention to reduce light in your eyes while driving at night. Every car needs that feature.
I would love to have a classic Saab. There's a mechanic in my nearby city in an old dealership building with a couple displayed in the showroom. If Saab had survived they probably would have ended up like Polestar. Quirky EVs with maybe a moderately spicy ICE car to round out the lineup.

[noahman]

Your Professor office hours analogy was spot on!!

[EnthusiastCarHangar]

My bought a 900 S new back in 1992. It looked like this one but had wonderful leather seats.

[dbarbour]

As an owner of four SAAB 900’s (non GM), I can safely say that if SAAB were to reform and produce the original SAAB 900, they would sell all of them that could be made. No electrics, all turbocharged, and all still stunningly unique. Who wouldn’t want an original SAAB 900 Turbo newly produced today?? Especially the convertibles? Only classic cars make comebacks!

[InVeritos]

Great video! I’ve been researching the Saab 900 turbos recently, and found this video helpful. Also, loved your “final thoughts” bit! It cracked me up, but also totally understood the analogy, and really kinda sold me on this vehicle.

[anthonygates]

SAAB has to make a return dude!! Great video

[GraveyardghouI]

Hah, I loved the college professor analogy. Very clever.

[tidls]

Great review! Love the enthusiasm. 😊 I own a 1990 900 T16 Aero. It has the big rear spoiler, also known as the bird bath. 😅 It was my daily driver back in 2007. It's been sitting in my father in laws garage since 2008. Currently it's getting a new inner roof. The old one started to sag. I'm hoping to restore the entire car.

[inkstain]

I really miss my 1993 900s, such a great car. Hope to get ahold of another 900 one of these days.

[davinp]

GM owned Saab from 1990-2010 and the ran Saab to the ground and killed it when they went bankrupt in 2009

[drewzero]

I'm glad you got to drive one of these! I was hoping to offer you a drive in my '83 if I can ever get it back on the road. Mine was also an English professor's car, and I bought it from the original owner's son-in-law.

Some more notes on the SAAB 900 engine:
- It's mounted backwards in the engine bay compared to traditional RWD cars, unlike most other FWD cars that have it sideways. The belts are at the firewall and the clutch is right up by the radiator. I've heard this makes changing the clutch a relative breeze, but I can tell you from personal experience that it makes changing the alternator a right pain in the nads. (Luckily I don't have A/C like this one does. The alternator is buried directly under the A/C compressor!)
- The transmission is directly beneath the engine; the oil pan is integrated into the top of the transmission housing, but the engine oil is not shared with the transmission.
- The engine (like most of the rest of the car) is an evolution of that of the previous SAAB 99, and originally came from a design licensed from Triumph. By this point SAAB had done a lot of their own development on the engine including the now-common turbocharger-- just about the only weird SAAB feature that actually caught on.

These cars are often misunderstood; a certain other reviewer on YouTube drove one and wasted half the review ragging on the appearance mods of the reviewed example. I'm glad you gave it a fair shake despite the overall weirdness throughout... There's nothing quite like it!