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The Ultimate Sleeper – Saab 99 Quattro Turbo
Car Throttle — Sometimes, as I go through the internet I find something that’s so damn cool it must be shared. This is one of those cases; I actually stumbled across this gem of a car on CarDomain’s most excellent blog, and went in search of more information on this wicked custom Saab. All the images are from this build thread on the forums of savarturbo.se, which -- although I don’t know any Swedish -- I’m going to venture a guess at being a Swedish tuning car forum.  The car started life as an early-build Saab 99, which had around 85 horsepower.  It’s still got a Saab engine, but it’s turned around backwards and mated to the Quattro 4WD system from an Audi 100.  It’s hard to gather details ...

700 HP Saab 99 Is The Best Sleeper Ever [Custom Cars]
Jalopnik — ... high, very high on the awesomeworld meter. These nutjobs took a straight-bodied Saab 99, stripped the interior and caged it, removed the engine and replaced all the internals then turned it around 180 degrees and mated it to an Audi 100 transmission and all-wheel-drive system, turbocharged the bejesus out of it and made everyone's wildest dreams come true. Our hats are certainly, and respectfully off to you, crazy Swedish Saab hoons. [Build Blog (translated from Swedish) via CarThrottle] ...

VIDEO: 700-HP Saab 99 Quattro Turbo is like missing Koenigsegg ancestor
Autoblog — Filed under: Europe, Videos, Saab 700-hp 1969 Saab 99 Quattro Turbo - Click above to watch video Sweden has just over nine million people - that's an entire country whose population is just a little bigger than New York City - and we'd believe it if someone told us they exclusively devoted their time to blessing the world with peculiar automotive concoctions. We'd ...