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If we can design and manufacture aircraft, why not cars?
The decision to actually start the automobile project was made in the fall of 1945. Development was started in Linköping by a 20 person team led by Gunnar Ljungström . The previous production code was for an airplane -the Saab 91 Safir- and the car project started as 92001.
An important requirement was that the car had to have a very low drag coefficient. Aerodynamical tests were part of the very early evaluations. Even 001 was tested with a 1:10 scale wooden model. The results were excellent....
By summer 1946 the first prototype body was ready, hand beaten on a wooden jig, black, shiny and streamlined. It had a borrowed 18 hp (13 kW)
two stroke engine.The original 1946 Saab 001 was driven thousands of miles. Today it is in the Saab museum in Trollhättan, with a prettied up grill and more roadworthy headlights.
The 92001 design was improved by Sixten Sason, in 1947 resulting in another prototype: 92002 and the Saab 92Saab 92 is an automobile from Saab. The design was very aerodynamic, especially for its time, and the cw value ( drag coefficient) was only 0. Full-scale production started 12 December 1949, based on the prototype Saab 92001. All of them were of the De Lu
Source: The SAAB Way, by Gunnar A. SjögrenSjogren (GAS) Author of "The Saab Way" the first 35 years of Saab cars, 1949- 1984. Born in Stockholm in 1920, spent his youth in the northern Swedish city of Umea. It was during this period that his passion for drawing cars, trains aeroplanes and boats d
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