Hasta La Ideas

After Pontiac’s death earlier this year, we ran a photo retrospective of the once-legendary car brand featuring a model of each year from 1948 to 1971. We thought about doing the same for Saab, but now that the company is back from the brink (however briefly) we’re holding off; Complex, however, has put together a neat photo series of the Ten Greatest Saabs in History.

(What’s so special about Saab, you ask? While everyone’s heard of them and can probably peg their quirky car designs on sight, not everyone’s familiar with the company’s long list of innovations: The first to make seatbelts standard; the first to use wind-tunnels in testing; an early proponent of turbochargers; the first impact-absorbing bumper; the first headlamp washer-wipers; the first to make heated seats standard; the first CFC-free air conditioners; the list goes on and on.)

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