High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! As the Second World War was drawing to a close, the SAAB company, a manufacturer of warplanes, realised that it needed to enter a different market. An automobile project was envisaged codenamed XP92, meaning experiment-personbil 92 (experimental car 92). What they aimed for was a replacement for small German cars like Opel Kadett, DKW and Adler. The target consumer price was 3200 SEK in 1942 value. The final decision to start the automobile project was made in the fall of 1945.