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Saab Sonett, the Glossary

The Saab Sonett is an automobile manufactured by Swedish automaker Saab between 1955 and 1957 and again between 1966 and 1974.^[1]

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Air conditioning

Air conditioning, often abbreviated as A/C (US) or air con (UK), is the process of removing heat from an enclosed space to achieve a more comfortable interior temperature (sometimes referred to as 'comfort cooling') and in some cases also strictly controlling the humidity of internal air.

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Arlöv

Arlöv is the seat of Malmö Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden.

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Austin-Healey Sprite

The Austin-Healey Sprite is a small open sports car produced in the United Kingdom from 1958 until 1971. Saab Sonett and Austin-Healey Sprite are 1960s cars and 1970s cars.

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Auto racing

Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition.

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ÚVMV 1100 GT

The ÚVMV 1100 GT (or Škoda 1100 GT) is a coupé car from AZNP made in 1970.

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Bonneville Salt Flats

The Bonneville Salt Flats are a densely packed salt pan in Tooele County in northwestern Utah, United States.

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Bumper (car)

A bumper is a structure attached to or integrated with the front and rear ends of a motor vehicle, to absorb impact in a minor collision, ideally minimizing repair costs.

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Car

A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels.

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Chevrolet Corvette

The Chevrolet Corvette is a line of American two-door, two-seater sports cars manufactured and marketed by General Motors under the Chevrolet marque since 1953. Saab Sonett and Chevrolet Corvette are 1960s cars and 1970s cars.

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Coupe

A coupe or coupé is a passenger car with a sloping or truncated rear roofline and two doors.

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Differential (mechanical device)

A differential is a gear train with three drive shafts that has the property that the rotational speed of one shaft is the average of the speeds of the others.

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Drag coefficient

In fluid dynamics, the drag coefficient (commonly denoted as: c_\mathrm, c_x or c_) is a dimensionless quantity that is used to quantify the drag or resistance of an object in a fluid environment, such as air or water.

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Erik Carlsson

Erik Hilding Carlsson (5 March 1929 – 27 May 2015) was a Swedish rally driver for Saab.

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Fiberglass

Fiberglass (American English) or fibreglass (Commonwealth English) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber.

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Ford Taunus V4 engine

The Ford Taunus V4 engine is a 60° V4 piston engine with one balance shaft, introduced by Ford Motor Company in Germany in 1962.

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Ford V4 engine

The Ford Motor Company built two models of 60° V4 engine in Europe.

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Four-stroke engine

A four-stroke (also four-cycle) engine is an internal combustion (IC) engine in which the piston completes four separate strokes while turning the crankshaft.

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Freewheel

Freewheel mechanism In mechanical or automotive engineering, a freewheel or overrunning clutch is a device in a transmission that disengages the driveshaft from the driven shaft when the driven shaft rotates faster than the driveshaft.

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Front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout

In automotive design, a front-engine, front-wheel-drive (FWD) layout, or FF layout, places both the internal combustion engine and driven roadwheels at the front of the vehicle.

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Front-mid-engine, front-wheel-drive layout

In automotive design, a front-mid-engine, front-wheel-drive layout (also called more simply "mid-engine, front-wheel-drive layout", and abbreviated MF or FMF) is one in which the front road wheels are driven by an internal-combustion engine placed just behind them, in front of the passenger compartment.

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Gear train

A gear train or gear set is a machine element of a mechanical system formed by mounting two or more gears on a frame such that the teeth of the gears engage.

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Gunnar A. Sjögren

Gunnar A. Sjögren ("GAS"; 1920–1996) was a Swedish engineer who worked for Saab Automobile and the author of The SAAB Way - the first 35 years of Saab cars, 1949–1984.

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Hidden headlamps, also commonly known as pop-up headlamps, pop-up headlights, flip-eye headlamps, or hideaway headlights, are a form of automotive lighting and an automotive styling feature that conceals an automobile's headlamps when they are not in use.

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Hood (car)

The hood (North American English) or bonnet (Commonwealth English outside Canada) is the hinged cover over the engine of motor vehicles.

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Jason Castriota

Jason Castriota is an automotive designer.

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Left- and right-hand traffic

Left-hand traffic (LHT) and right-hand traffic (RHT) are the practices, in bidirectional traffic, of keeping to the left side and to the right side of the road, respectively.

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Malmö Flygindustri

Malmö Flygindustri was a small aviation and car company in south Sweden which specialized in small single-propeller aircraft and various plastic objects.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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MG MGB

The MGB is a two-door sports car manufactured and marketed from 1962 until 1980 by the British Motor Corporation (BMC), later the Austin-Morris division of British Leyland, as a four-cylinder, soft-top sports car. Saab Sonett and mG MGB are 1970s cars.

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MG Midget

The MG Midget is a small two-seater lightweight sports car produced by MG from 1961 to 1979. Saab Sonett and MG Midget are 1970s cars.

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Model year

The model year (sometimes abbreviated as MY) is a method of describing the version of a product which has been produced over multiple years.

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Ogle Design

Ogle Design is a British design consultancy company founded in 1954 by David Ogle and based in Letchworth, Hertfordshire.

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Prototype

A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process.

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Rankine cycle

The Rankine cycle is an idealized thermodynamic cycle describing the process by which certain heat engines, such as steam turbines or reciprocating steam engines, allow mechanical work to be extracted from a fluid as it moves between a heat source and heat sink.

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Reliant Motors

Reliant Motor Company was a British car manufacturer based in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England.

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Roadster (car)

A roadster (also spider, spyder) is an open two-seat car with emphasis on sporting appearance or character.

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Rolf Mellde

Rolf Mellde (1922 – March 2009) was an engineer who specialized in performance engines and also a car racing enthusiast.

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Saab 9-3

The Saab 9-3 (pronounced nine-three) is a compact executive car initially developed and manufactured by the Swedish automaker Saab. Saab Sonett and Saab 9-3 are Saab vehicles.

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Saab 93

The Saab 93 (pronounced ninety-three) is the second production automobile that was manufactured by Swedish automaker Saab. Saab Sonett and Saab 93 are cars introduced in 1955 and Saab vehicles.

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Saab 95

The Saab 95 is a seven-seater, two-door station wagon produced by Swedish automaker Saab from 1959 to 1978. Saab Sonett and Saab 95 are 1960s cars, 1970s cars and Saab vehicles.

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Saab 96

The Saab 96 is an automobile manufactured and marketed by Swedish automaker Saab from 1960 to January 1980, replacing the Saab 93. Saab Sonett and Saab 96 are 1970s cars and Saab vehicles.

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Saab Automobile

Saab Automobile AB was a car manufacturer that was founded in Sweden in 1945 when its parent company, Saab AB, began a project to design a small automobile.

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Saab Catherina

The Saab Catherina is a 1964 prototype automobile, commissioned by the Swedish automaker Saab, designed by Sixten Sason and made at the workshops of the Aktiebolaget Svenska Järnvägsverkstäderna (ASJ - the Swedish Railroad Works) in Katrineholm, Sweden (hence the name).

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Saab Granturismo

The Saab Granturismo (also Monte Carlo and Sport) was a series of up-powered sedans sold by Saab Automobile AB from 1958 to 1968. Saab Sonett and Saab Granturismo are front-wheel-drive sports cars and Saab vehicles.

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Saab MFI13

The Saab MFI 13 was a February 1965 prototype for the Saab 97 automobile, later known as Sonett II.

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Saab PhoeniX

The Saab PhoeniX is a concept car produced by Saab which was unveiled at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show.

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Saab two-stroke

The Saab two-stroke was a two-stroke cycle, inline, two cylinder, and later three cylinder engine manufactured by Swedish automotive manufacturer Saab that was based on a design by German manufacturer DKW.

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Seat belt

A seat belt, also known as a safety belt or spelled seatbelt, is a vehicle safety device designed to secure the driver or a passenger of a vehicle against harmful movement that may result during a collision or a sudden stop.

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Sergio Coggiola

Sergio Coggiola (1928-1989) was an Italian designer known primarily for his automotive work at Carrozzeria Ghia in Turin for 15 years — serving as the head of Ghia's prototype shop until 1952 — and later at his own company,, which he founded in 1966 in Orbassano, Italy, a commune of Turin.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_Sonett

Also known as Saab 94, Saab 97, Saab Sonett II, Saab Sonett III, Saab Sonett IV, Saab Sonnet, Saab Sonnett.

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