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| 1999 Saab 9-3 |
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Price: $22,500 |
Last Updated more than 20 days ago
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| Year: |
1999 |
| Make: |
Saab |
| Model: |
9-3 |
| Trim: |
Viggen |
| Engine: |
I4
2L TC I4 double overhead cam (DOHC) 16V |
| Fuel: |
Gasoline |
| Color: |
Lightening Blue |
| Miles: |
94656 |
| Stock #: |
58876 |
| MPG: |
17 city / 24 hwy |
| Body Style: |
Hatchback |
| Condition: |
Used |
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Vehicle Description
SAAB HAS TWO VIGGENS AND WE DO TOO AND THEY BOTH FLY
We sold and serviced this example
Viggen is Swedish for Thunderbolt. The Saab 37 Viggen is a double-delta-wing fighter jet.
The car named in it's honor also fly. A total of 426 1999 Viggens were delivered to the US and 420 were Lightning Blue 3 door with manual transmissions.
.Looking for something unconventional, eccentric? One of only 426 Lightning Blue 9-3 Viggens produced in 1999 for the U.S. Market is currently offered by Swedish. Here's a machine that hides its ignition switch in the cup holder. Here's a machine with a teeny four-cylinder engine hooked up to a turbocharger the size of a Shop-Vac. Here's a little three-door hatchback that looks like no other car on the road. Here's the Saab 9-3 Viggen.
We are dealing with the last of the throwbacks--the last mass-produced passenger vehicle on earth that stays the course, refusing to yield to bourgeois fashion and show-off technology. The 9-3 Viggen is now the latest hot-rod version of the Saab 900 first introduced in 1994, and it now offers an impressive 230 horsepower from its 2.3L turbocharged four-banger that has been a part of the Saab inventory since Eric the Red left for Greenland.
Face it, Saabs are an acquired taste, like single-malt Scotch and reggae. Slip behind the wheel of a Viggen, and find a chair-like leather seat, a chin-high instrument panel and windowsill, and a shifter and ignition switch located in a pit below your right hip. Sniff the distinctive odor of buttery-soft Saab leather, and you can be in only one place on the planet.
It goes not exactly like its Swedish-fighter-plane namesake, but it's plenty quick enough to get it into the high-six-second range from 0 to 60 mph and to tie for first in this group from 0 to 100 mph and to be the winner from 0 to 120 mph (where the wonderful Whoopee Cushion turbo shows its muscle).
Once the shifter is mastered and the chassis is understood, one can fairly fly in a Viggen. Imprudent throttle punches in slow corners can produce nasty lunges of torque steer, but once straightened out and with the turbocharger in full play, the Viggen is definitely a hoot to drive.
It's cool that Saab has refused to accede to so-called contemporary styling and such nuances as four-wheel drive, naturally aspirated V-6s, or a swoopier, more aerodynamic body style. In a world of automobiles that only small boys and hard-core automotive writers can tell from one another--think Japanese cars--the Saab steadfastly clings to its roots.
For the unrepentant Saabistas and for those who have not forgotten George McGovern and the plight of the snail darter, this is a source of pride and comfort. For others, it is quaintness that is rapidly descending into obsolescence.
Get it while you can. |
Vehicle Options
Ground Effects/Lower Spoilers, Rear Spoiler, Front Air Conditioning, Front Air Conditioning - Automatic Climate Control, Shift Knob Trim - Leather, Steering Wheel Trim - Leather, Cruise Control, Memorized Settings - Driver Seat, Power Steering, Steering Wheel - Telescopic, Abs - 4-Wheel, Power Brakes, Gauge - Tachometer, Cassette, Radio - Am/Fm, Trip Odometer, Daytime Running Lights, Front Fog Lights, Wheel Diameter - 17 Inch, Wheels - Aluminum Alloy, Moonroof / Sunroof - Power, Tinted Glass, Window Defogger - Rear, Front Wipers - Intermittent, Power Windows, Rear Wiper, Anti-Theft System - Alarm, Front Airbags - Dual, Power Door Locks, Side Airbags - Front, Side Mirror Adjustments - Power, Side Mirrors - Heated, Driver Seat Power Adjustments, Front Seat Type - Bucket, Passenger Seat Power Adjustments, Upholstery - Leather |
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