2008 SAAB TURBO X: Black magic: Saab taps turbo heritage, Darth Vader and Swedish awd experts to create commemorative 2008 Turbo X

Turbocharging is nothing special for Saab, which has indulged in the dark art of boosting power via turbo since 1977. Painting cars black also isn’t unusual for the Swedish automaker. The brand’s most recognized model from the past, the 900 Turbo, often was ordered in jet black.

Even sending power to all four wheels isn’t anything new for Saab. The company offered the Subaru WRX-based Saab 9-2X a few years back and still sells an occasional 9-7X, which shares its underpinnings with General Motors’ midsize sport/utilities such as the Chevrolet TrailBlazer.

With that history, it would be easy to dismiss the all-new 2008 Saab Turbo X as no big deal, just a turbocharged, Darth Vader black, all-wheel-drive 9-3 sedan. But it’s the unique combination of these traits, in an exclusive model that hits all the right luxury, performance and styling cues, that makes the Turbo X something more.

Except for the all-wheel drive, dubbed Cross Wheel Drive or XWD, the company had a ready recipe for its car to commemorate 30 years of Saab turbocharging. The Turbo X draws heavily on the 900 Turbo (above, in background) from the 1970s and ’80s, the car that cemented Saab’s niche in the U.S. luxury-performance-sedan market. That car, in turn, owes its inspiration to the 99, the car on which Saab introduced turbocharging in 1977. Although turbo-charging is gaining favor today as a way of boosting power and fuel efficiency in small-displacement engines, back in the 1970s, Saab was all alone installing turbos on production cars.

Many a buyer, from Wall Street to Hollywood, checked the box for black paint on his or her new 900, a color that gave the car an understated stealthy and sinister appearance. Over the course of a decade, the turbocharged black Saab 900 created a new persona for the brand–and drove sales to a then-all-time high of 47,414 cars in 1986.

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