Saab launched the first production sports model - the Saab 750
Granturismo - in the spring of 1958 at the motor show in New York. It was
also in the United States that more than 500 of 600 cars manufactured
were sold up to 1960.
The Saab 750 Granturismo differed from its more mundane stable-mates by
two chromium strips along the body side and by extra lamps fitted as
standard. But there was little else on the outside to boast of the verve
of this car. The three-cylinder, two stroke power unit under the bonnet
was tuned to boost its output from 38 bhp to 50 bhp. But and additional
tuning kit was available for the 750 GT to coax a further 7 bhp from the
engine.