Saab
Saab were manufacturers of aircraft in Sweden and when World War 2 concluded, in order to retain their skilled workforce, they branched out into making cars, much as did many other aircraft manufactures like Bristol, Messerschmitt and Heinkel. These Saab had 2 stroke transverse mounted engines with front wheel drive. The first of the production models was the Saab 92, which was continually evolved with the addition of an external boot opening. The Saab 93 introduced in 1955 had a 3 cylinder engine but still a 2 stroke conventionally mounted. By the time the 2 stroke engine was replaced, Saab had outsourced the Ford Taunus engine for for the new the Saab 96 , which now had more than double the horsepower. The Saab 99 of 1968 was all new, this time using the overhead cam Triumph engine, which stayed in production to 1984.
