{"id":386985,"date":"2010-03-03T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/03\/geneva-2010-1957-saab-93-rally-headed-for-mille-miglia-with-spy\/"},"modified":"2010-03-03T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T01:38:00","slug":"geneva-2010-1957-saab-93-rally-headed-for-mille-miglia-with-spyker-and-saab-ceos-at-the-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/386985","title":{"rendered":"Geneva 2010: 1957 Saab 93 rally headed for Mille Miglia with Spyker and Saab CEOs at the wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1957 Saab 93 rally car replica – Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

\nAs car guys, we want to see Saab<\/a> succeed at the hands of its new owners, Spyker Cars. And while the brand faces an uphill battle to reach profitability, its new masters are at least showing signs of understanding the Swedish automaker’s rich past. The latest proof? Spyker CEO Victor Muller and Saab CEO Jan Åke Jonsson will take on Italy’s famed Mille Miglia road race in this 1957 Saab 93, a replica of the car that won the Finnish 1,000 Lakes Rally that year.<\/p>\n

The 750cc three-cylinder two-stroke engine has been tuned to Group 2 specification, producing 55 horsepower – 22 horsepower more than the standard car. So-equipped, the robust racer is said to be good for 62 miles-per-hour in 13 seconds and a top speed of 93 mph.<\/p>\n

While racing in May’s historic recreation of the Mille Miglia might not generate much in the way of brand buzz, if nothing else, it strikes us as a nice acknowledgment of the company’s past by the keepers of its future. Could there be more than just a history lesson at work here? Late last month, Autocar<\/em> reported<\/a> that Saab is proceeding with plans for a new entry-level model, the 9-2, that will reportedly be influenced by Saab’s 1950’s ‘teardrop’ design. High-res gallery of live shots from here at the Geneva Motor Show<\/a> below, official press release after the jump.<\/p>\n

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Gallery: Geneva 2010: 1957 Saab 93 rally car<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Filed under: Motorsports, Classics, Sedan, Geneva Motor Show, Europe, Saab 1957 Saab 93 rally car replica – Click above for high-res image gallery As car guys, we want to see Saab succeed at the hands of its new owners, Spyker Cars. And while the brand faces an uphill battle to reach profitability, its new masters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}