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Created on August 1, 1961

Reading time 7min

Written by:

Günther Gebhardt

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Saab 96 (1961) - … etwas besonderes

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Saab 96 (1961) - im Handlingtest

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Saab 96 (1961) - die komplette Armaturentafel verrät den Flugzeugkonstrukteur

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Saab 96 (1961) - diverse Vorrichtungen erleichtern die Anpassung an Sommer- und Winterbetrieb unter der nach vorne klappbaren Motorhaube

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Saab 96 (1961) - glattflächiger Kofferraumboden und sogar eine Ersatz-Zylinderkopfdichtung ist vorhanden

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Saab 96 (1961) - Front- und Seitenachsicht

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Saab 96 (1960) - Kraft und Schönheit vereint, Abbildung aus dem Verkaufsprospekt von 1960

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Saab 96 Sport (1962) am Genfer Automobilsalon - alte Form und 'moderne' Leistung

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Saab 96 (1960) - Technik sichtbar gemacht, Abbildung aus dem Verkaufsprospekt von 1960

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Saab 96 (1961) - Durchsichtszeichnung

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Saab 96 (1960) - Silhouette

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Saab 96 (1961) - der Dauerbrenner am Anfang seiner Karriere

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Saab 96 (1960) - Seitenprofil, links

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Saab 96 (1962) - die Form entsprach weitgehend den Vorgängern

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Saab 96 (1960) - die aerodynamische Form ist gut sichtbar

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Saab 96 (1961) - frühes Modell, noch mit Zweitaktmotor

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Saab 96 (1960) - Bandtacho bei diesem Modell aus dem Jahre 1960

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Saab 96 (1960) - in diesen Kofferraum passt einiges hinein

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Saab 96 (1962) - Saab 96 in zeitgenössischer Werbedarstellung

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Saab 96 (1962) - Produktion - Motor und Getriebe wurden in Göteborg hergestellt

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Saab 96 (1959) - im Spritzwerk

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Saab 96 (1962) - Produktion - die Karosserien des Saab 96 werden im Werk Trollhätten zusammengebaut

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Summary

At the beginning of the sixties, Saab cars were only known to insiders; they were seen less on the roads than in rallying. The magazine 'hobby' tested one of the first Saab 96s with a two-stroke engine to arrive in Germany and gave the "individualist" a very positive review. This report re-edits the original wording and supplements the illustrations of the time with many archive photos.

This article contains the following chapters

Individualists are not extinct
Expensive and ugly?
Known from rally racing
Solid and well thought out
Plenty of space and good climate
Unique driving characteristics - impossible to overturn
Easily accessible, smooth-running two-stroke engine
Better read the manual properly
Rapid driving performance
Slippery in the wind
With freewheel
Not necessarily economical
With opportunities in the market
Technical profile

Estimated reading time: 7min

Preview (beginning of the article)

The car, once the prerogative of eccentric individualists, has long since become a ready-made product. Hundreds of thousands of individual models are produced 'off the shelf', and in many cases, despite all the nonsense about overproduction due to long waiting times, people can hardly afford the last vestiges of personality in the form of color preferences. No one, no matter how interested in cars, would think of stopping to look at a particular production car today, unless it was a brand new model or the more or less successful creation of an imaginative hobbyist. Despite this extensive standardization, individualists are far from extinct. They still exist today, and they are those who are willing to pay a little extra to recognize their vehicle among hundreds of others in the parking lot, and not just by its police license plate.

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