Quirky, successful, understated individuals who shy away from the stigma of driving a BMW or Mercedes. According to Top
Gear, Saab Drivers are members of the ‘ intelligentsia’, including but not limited to architects, graphic designers, civil rights lawyers, and specialist doctors.
Saab Drivers usually identify with one or more of the following reasons for having purchased their vehicle:
- Integrity and Spirited Engineering
- Design with meaningful lines through the whole body and details which support the wholeness
- Understatement
- Trustworthiness
- Intelligent and nontraditional solutions to
major and smaller problems
- The courage to think and act (in the developing of cars) for
good and sensible reasons, instead of commercial “fanciness”/trendiness
- Fist Class in
Safety
- High performance turbocharged engines
- Saab's iconic
cult-
like following
- Care about the environment combined with driving-pleasure
- Admiration for a small brand with a very innovative heritage
You’ll never hear anyone say ‘look at that lunatic in the Saab’ or 'That Saab Driver is such a hot headed
prick'.
There’s a bit of a
cult of Saab in the UK. Saab drivers wave to each other as they drive by.
While the yuppie masses scoot along in their 3-series BMWs and boring Lexuses, a Saab Driver flies by in a turbocharged rush.
Most Saab Drivers owned an Apple
computer before it was trendy.