Not long time ago, we showed you a rare example of a Saab SUV sporting an LS V8 from a Corvette. If that didn’t satiate your appetite for quirky Swedish metal from a company no longer in existence, maybe try this on for size.

The 9-3 Viggen borrows its namesake from one of Saab aviation’s finest achievements, the J37 Viggen multi-role jet fighter. A jet so powerful and so sophisticated, it was actually able to achieve radar lock on to an SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. The fastest and most top-secret jet in the American arsenal. Thank heavens that the Swedes were American allies.

Now, clearly, the Viggen aircraft and automobile don’t share much in common besides a name and the company which built it, but if sports cars and fighter jets are meant to be fast, agile, and well put together, then both did a very respectable job.


The 9-3 Viggen featured a turbocharged two-liter four-pot engine pumping out 230 horsepower and mated to an old-fashioned five-speed manual gearbox.


Sporting 56,900 miles (91,571 km) on the odometer, there are a couple of dings and scratches spotted throughout the bodywork, likely collateral damage from the chaotic roads of the New York metro area. Overall though, such a conservative amount of mileage for a 20-year-old car is not bad at all.

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