Few things get us car enthusiasts quite as excited as the frantic sweep of a boost gauge, save perhaps for the supersonic shriek of a delta-wing fighter jet.

Saab s advertising team clearly knew this, permanently linking, however tenuously, the business aeronautical wing with its automotive arm.

Technical developments weren t left exclusively to the skies, though.

Whilst Saab wasn t the first to utilise a turbocharger, they did civilise it.

Pioneering its usability, throughout the forced-induction revolution, first with the pioneering 99 Turbo, and later the 900.

It proved that beneath the architect in a roll-neck reputation lay a genuine streak of automotive genius.

Genius that in the years to come would drive GM execs to the brink.

Thankfully, this car was produced before any of GM s real meddling.

Supplied new in March 1992, it is one of just 300 Monte Carlo Edition cars, finished in a rather lazily named, Monte Carlo Yellow Those crazy Swedes! The standard 900 Turbo is an u...