Aeroplane manufacturer Saab formally resolved it would start to manufacture cars


Thursday 27th February 1947

Aeroplane manufacturer Saab formally resolved it would start to manufacture cars. An automobile design project was started in 1945 with the internal name “X9248”. The design project became formally known as “Project 92”; the 92 being next in production sequence after the Saab 91, a single engine trainer aircraft.] In 1948, a company site in Trollhättan, Sweden was converted to allow automobile assembly and the project moved there, along with the car manufacturing headquarters, which has remained there since. The company made four prototypes named “Ursaab” or “original Saab”, numbered 92001 through to 92004, before designing the production model, the Saab 92, in 1949. The Saab 92 went into production in December 1949, selling 20,000 cars through the mid-1950s. The 92 was thoroughly redesigned and re-engineered in 1955, and was renamed the “Saab 93”.


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