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Saab 95 - The anti-brick

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Created on December 6, 2024

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Paul Krüger

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Saab 95 (1961) - advertised as "Stationscar in Flykvalitet" ("station wagon in airplane quality")

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Saab 95 (1961) - advertised as "Stationscar in Flykvalitet" ("station wagon in airplane quality")

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Saab 95 (1961) - Going downhill: If you want to get to the bottom in one piece, you should have good leg muscles

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Saab 95 (1961) - the blue exhaust is typical for the two-stroke engine - and was already criticized in 1961

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Saab 95 (1961) - a very early model, still built in Linköping

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Saab 95 (1961) - a very early model, still built in Linköping

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Saab 95 (1961) - Round thing: Until 1964 there was the "round nose", from 1965 the "long nose"

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Saab 95 (1961) - This was one of the first Saabs in Switzerland

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Saab 95 (1961) - just as robust, but stylistically much more independent than a Volvo

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Saab 95 (1961) - just as robust, but stylistically much more independent than a Volvo

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Saab 95 (1961) - The front is identical to that of the Saab 96

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Saab 95 (1961) - Even if it looks like it: The tailgate is not divided horizontally, but swings completely upwards

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Saab 95 (1961) - Clearly recognizable why the "pontoon shape" is called what it is called

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Saab 95 (1961) - Reaches a cruising speed of 115 to 120 km/h according to factory specifications

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Saab 95 (1961) - According to factory specifications, it should consume between 8 and 9 liters per 100 km

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Saab 95 (1961) - Are those fins? An angular rear end grows out of the rounded front end

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Saab 95 (1961) - the station wagon is 412 cm long

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Saab 95 (1961) - The passengers in the third row look to the rear

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Saab 95 (1961) - Flat footwell without transmission tunnel - thanks to steering wheel gearshift and front-wheel drive

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Saab 95 (1961) - Economical but elegant: upholstered dashboard, white steering wheel, red leatherette

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Saab 95 (1961) - Train switches with pictograms are international. The instruments, however, only speak Swedish

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Saab 95 (1961) - The two-stroke three-cylinder engine delivers 38 hp and is installed at an angle of 30 degrees

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Saab 95 (1961) - until 1964 the radiator was located behind the engine, from 1965 in front of it

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Saab 95 (1961) - Short and wide: the engine compartment is made for a small V-engine

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Saab 95 (1961) - Later taken up by Daimler-Benz: third row of seats against the direction of travel

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Saab 95 (1961) - mud flaps were obligatory in Sweden

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Saab 95 (1959) - the estate version in elegant two-tone paintwork

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Saab 95 (1959) - the estate car, practical and extravagant

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Saab 95 (1959) - Storage space even for longer journeys

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Saab 95 (1959) - in the large trunk of the station wagon there was a third row of seats against the direction of travel

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Saab 95 (1963) - five- to seven-seater station wagon with two-stroke engine

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Saab 95 (1966) - you could stow a lot of riding equipment in the station wagon

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Saab 95 (1968) - some would have liked the rear of the station wagon to be a little more elegant - Geneva Motor Show 1968

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Saab 95 (1970) - still with seven seats - Geneva Motor Show 1970

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Saab 95 (1972) - the estate version was equipped with three rows of seats, but was much less successful on the market than the sedan

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Saab 95 (1975) - already with black plastic grille, but still with chrome bumpers

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Saab 96 (1967) - the V4 engine from Ford fitted easily into the engine compartment of the Saab 96

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Ford Taunus 12 M (1964) - the short V4 engine

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Saab 96 (1966) - the V4 engine from Ford in the Saab

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Summary

When people talk about Swedish estate cars, it is mainly angular vehicles from Gothenburg that come to mind. Saab is associated more with drifting rally cars and winter-proof convertibles. But Trollhättan was also the birthplace of a spacious character head that has remained true to its shape over the decades. This article is dedicated to the Saab 95, the quirky and practical estate version of the 96.

This article contains the following chapters

High revving and unwilling to brake
3=6, but 4>2
Finland and back

Estimated reading time: 7min

Preview (beginning of the article)

"The Swedes are not as susceptible to advances in civilization as the recently invented exaggerated need for prestige," Dieter Korp had stated in auto motor und sport in 1961. The aircraft-building pragmatists at Saab had already provided the proof two years earlier. Instead of wasting their modest budget on annual model changes that were more fashionable than technical in nature, they consistently refined the design and technical maturity of their cars without ever following any short-lived stylistic trends. Even after ten years of production, there was therefore no reason to replace the bulbous streamline with a stylistically more modern successor. On the contrary: Saab even added a new body variant to the range. When the estate was presented in May 1959, it still had some technical innovations ahead of the saloon. Anyone who wanted the three-cylinder engine, which had been enlarged to 841 cubic centimetres and now had 38 hp, as well as a synchronized four-speed gearbox, had to opt for the three-door model known as the Saab 95. Only when the saloon became the Saab 96 from the Saab 93 in February 1960 was it also available with the more powerful engine and the additional gear pair.

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