The joy of retro: 1985 Saab 900 Turbo video

We stumbled across the retro majesty of this MotorWeek archive video and thought it was worth sharing.

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The MotorWeek Retro Review has been around for quite a while, but when we stumbled on this review of the Saab 900 Turbo we thought it was worth sharing with you lot.

The slalom test from 3:18 onwards, where presenter John Davis states that the Saab "doesn't like to plough or roll much," is particularly entertaining given the accompanying footage of the car pitching about like a ship in a storm (by modern standards, anyway).

Those of you who remember the '80s will also thoroughly enjoy the opening ads sequence.

Anyway, the Saab 900 Turbo is rightly a total legend, and this period piece gives a delightfully dead-pan, old-school road test idea of why. Enjoy.

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Comments (4)

  • Generations of dentists love this car

      4 years ago
  • world second longest running free to air car show, motorweek been running since 1981 on pbs in the usa only top gear with 41 year with the bbc has a longer run.

      4 years ago
  • Car designers had their priorities straight back then. Unless you bought a proper sports car, yours was built primarily for ride comfort and safety, so the outright handling of the basic car was easy to beat

      4 years ago
  • boy o boy if only people knew they where 10 years ahead with 4banger turbos...but in the 80s almost everyone frowned at 4cyl cars

      4 years ago
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