This Saab 906 Turbo was the ultimate cruiser

Posted on 22-03-2016 at 19:30 by CasperH – 16 Comments”

These glorious ’80s mafkezerij, of course, was never a sales hit. But the cool thing was the Saab 906 Turbo.

A Saab 900, but longer and with a double rear axle, and why not? Designer Leif Mellberg decided to make a Saab 900 GLS from 1981 to 60 inches to extend to 5.3 meters long. But not only in the length grew this Saab 900, also in the width was 18 inches added. And that all with one purpose: interieurruimte.

The result was perhaps the ultimate Autoblog beursbus, because the Saab 906 was filled with all sorts of crazy gadgets: a custom-made Blaupunkt tv, a sound system with 16 speakers, a fridge / freezer in short: everything we would need for our team to you for your comfortable traveling to Geneva, Paris or Frankfurt. In addition, there is thought to politieradio’s and radar detectors. Also, things like central locking, electric windows and electrically adjustable mirrors were mounted.

It seems that the nose is from a Ford Sierra, and nearly all the sheet metal was adapted to the design beating. Also, there were subcutaneous adjustments are required, inter alia, the braking system on all six wheels working had to be made. Whole in Saab-style, there was a 145-horsepower four-cylinder with a turbo under the hood to find, linked to a vijfbak. The rims were 15 inch Oscam Turbo’s, with Pirelli’s in the size 225/50/15.

Although the project started as a wish of a customer of Mellberg, it was eventually a demo-car for Mellbergs Custom, the business of the designer. In the first instance, was the car in browns run, and later it was a lighter color with blue striping on the car. Unfortunately, there is only one instance is built and this car is around the year 2000 to the demolition disappeared, in Varberg, to be exact.