High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Saab Sonett is an automobile model manufactured between 1966 and 1974 by Sweden's Saab Automobile AB. Sonetts shared engines and other components with Saab 96s and 95s of the same era. The first prototypes, now known as the Sonett I, were two-seat, open top, light-weight, dedicated roadster racers which, ten years later, evolved into the commercially distributed Sonett models II, V4, and III. In the 1950s Rolf Mellde, a Saab engine developer and race enthusiast, along with Lars Olov Olsson, Olle Linkdvist, and Gotta Svensson, designed a two-seat roadster prototype in an Åsaka barn outside Trollhättan, the site of the main Saab manufacturing facility. The limited R&D project, with a total budget of only 75000 Kronor, became known as the 'Sonett', a name derived from the Swedish slang expression "Så nätt den är" translated as "how neat it is", or more literally "so neat they are".