Coches Saab: libros - historia y técnica

Saab Celebration - Swedish Style Remembered

Saab has gone, but its cars and its loyal band of owners remain. In this photographic album, internationally known Saab author and commentator Lance Cole celebrates all things Saab.
In a collection of over 200 photographic images accompanied by a detailed yet engaging commentary, the book delivers a record of Saab from its first car to its last. The engineering, design, and ethos of Saab's cars across the generations are captured in all their glory.

The author of many Saab articles and several Saab books, this is Lance Cole's new view on Sweden's other car maker - one that really did build cars to a different standard.
"Saab Celebration" is designed to be a memorial companion for the Saab fan. If you like Saabs, then enjoy this tribute to all things Saab.

Saab Cars - The Complete Story

This book offers a detailed insight into the company's story, from the prototype UrSaab in 1947 to the end of production in 2012. A fitting tribute to the spirit and ethos of Saab design and engineering.

It investigates the history and founding of Saab, and the roots of its advanced aerodynamic knowledge from the company's origins as an aircraft manufacturer. In detail the design and engineering history of Saab's pioneering work in aerodynamics, form, function and safety are explained.

Includes recollections from Saab workers and those on the factory floor. Stunning visual coverage of the Saab models, with rare archive images and design sketches.

Saab, les voitures du pays des trolls

Fondée en 1937 comme constructeur aéronautique sous le nom de Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget, SAAB se tourne vers la fin des années 1940 à la construction automobile en créant la division Saab Automobile en 1947.
Dès lors, la marque parvient à séduire sa clientèle par des créations originales, dont les insolites 92, 93 et 96, tout en s'imposant comme une cible privilégiée des automobilistes américains.

Au fil des années, SAAB connaît un essor considérable sur le plan technique, malgré ses difficultés financières, en lançant des modèles encore plus puissants à l'instar des Sonett, des 99 et de la légendaire 900 Turbo, et grâce auxquels Saab triomphe en compétition automobile.
Après sa fusion avec Scania (1969) et sa reprise par les groupes GM (2000) puis Spyker Cars NV (2010), SAAB existe aujourd'hui sous le giron de la holding suédoise National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB depuis 2012.

Signé Xavier Chauvin, « SAAB, les Voitures du Pays des Trolls » revisite l'histoire du constructeur automobile suédois SAAB, à travers une large collection de plus de 350 photos inédites des modèles originaux de la firme de Trollhättan.
Cet ouvrage encyclopédique présente, modèle par modèle, les voitures construites par Saab depuis ses origines. L'historique des modèles est complété par des centaines de photos, des descriptions et des données techniques.

Saab & Volvo - Klassiker aus Skandinavien (Schrader Motor Chronik)

Saab und Volvo, die beiden grossen schwedischen Automobilhersteller, bauten stets Autos für Individualisten und Querdenker. Das machte die wirtschaftliche Situation für beide nicht immer leicht.
Doch ungeachtet der über Jahrzehnte währenden wirtschaftlichen Berg- und Talfahrten: Beide schufen Automobil-Legenden und baute eigenwillige, grossartige und imageträchtige Autos, für die sich herrlich werben liess - wie dieser wunderbare Band der Reihe Schrader Motor Chronik beweist. Ein echtes Schmuckstück, nicht nur für Skandinavien-Fans.

Saab 92 - 96 V4: The Original Saab - The Complete Story

Launched in 1949 as the 92 before evolving into the 93, 96 2-stroke and 96 V4, this car was in production for thirty-one years. Attracting global admiration and sales, it also excelled in motorsport and by the early 1960s was the most successful rally-car in Europe.
A decline in sales in the 1960s was reversed with the launch of the 96 V4 which resulted in its success continuing into the 1980s.

With over 200 archive and colour photographs, this book provides a new description of the Saab company's original car and includes detailed biographies of important Saab figures and extensive discussion of the engineering and design decisions that made the car such a success.
There is coverage of the original Saab story in North and South America and a comprehensive review of Saab 92, 93, 96, motor sport history. Full technical details and specifications and tuning details are given and finally, there is a chapter on owners' experiences and Saab veteran's recollections.

Saab 96 & V4 (Rally Giants)

The complete story of the front-wheel-drive Saab 96 made the brand into a rally icon in the 1960s. Superstar driving from Erik Carlsson, his wife Pat Moss-Carlsson and - later - from Stig Blomqvist, all brought real publicity and admiration for a car that always lacked the sheer straight-line performance of its rivals.

Saabs like this, however, never wanted for strength, or for amazing handling and traction, and they succeeded in events as diverse as the Monte Carlo, Britain's RAC rally, special stage events in every Scandinavian country, and the rough-and-tough Spa-Sofia-Liege Marathon.

The big change came in 1967, when the 96 became the V4, looking almost the same as before, but with a new and more powerful four-stroke Ford-Germany V4 engine. Works cars continued to be competitive in carefully chosen events for many years, and it was only the arrival of much more specialised rivals that made them outdated.

Saab, though, was not finished with rallying, as the V4's successors, the much larger and more powerful 99 and 99 Turbo types, proved.
More than any other car of its era, the 96 and V4 models proved that front-wheel-drive allied to true superstar driving could produce victory where no-one expected it.