SAAB Sonett Super Sport (Roadster) 1956 (1050797)

            Manufacturer: SAAB Automobile AB, Trollhättan - Sweden
Type: 94 / Sonett Super Sport (Roadster) / Sonett I
Engine: 748cc 2-stroke straight-3
Power: 58 bhp / 5.000 rpm
Speed: 159 km/h
Production time: 1956
Production outlet: 6
Curb weight: 521 kg

Special: 
- This high performance, low drag two-seater based on aircraft design principals was designed by Sixten Sason.
- "Sonett" is Swedish for "how nice".
- The first one was built in secret by Rolf Mellde and had a aluminium body in 1954 (he and his team were unable to get management interested in pursuing the idea).
- This is the fifth car.
- Another five cars produced in the factory of SAAB with an glass fibre laminate body.
- Because of the high cost, only six examples of the first series Sonett were built. 
- The SAAB Sonett 1, unofficially termed the SAAB 94 and also known as the Sonett Super Sport, debuted at the 1956 "Bilsalong" Stockholm Motorcar Show.
- The light-alloy chassis frame and the 2-stroke engine, designed by Rolf Mellde, SAABs first open car, was originally intended for track racing.
- The project actually started outside of SAAB and that is why Rolf Mellde and his team built the first one in their own time Completed in 1955).
- To lower the costs, the remaining five, would feature steel chassis instead of alloy.
- These last five had twin Solex carburetors, a four-speed manual gearbox by ZF and rear wheel drive.
- To improve weight distribution, the longitudinally mounted engine and gearbox were turned around through 180° and the 60-liter fuel tank was also mounted in the side of the car opposite the driver.
- To keep the front of the car as low as possible, the engine was canted over slightly to the right.
- SAAB made a production plan to build 2,000 cars a year, but changed competition rules (no longer allowed to use souped standard cars) stopped those plans.
- All six cars still exist in working order. The first Sonett is displayed in the SAAB Car Museum at Trollhättan, together wîth one other. The other four cars are owned by private collectors, including one by SAAB USA and one  by the GM Museum.
   

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