Björn Envall is a Swedish retired automobile designer was head of the design department at Saab. He started his career in the 1960s at Saab as an apprentice under Sixten Sason, especially helping with the design of the Saab 99 and the ill-fated Saab Catherina sports car.
Sixten Sason
In fact, after the failure of that design to be accepted by Saab, he designed a further and progressive two-seater, which was never built. After a two years spell at Opel he took over Sason's work at Saab, in 1969, following Sason's death. He held this position until 1992.
Björn Envall on the wright
Among his designs there was the Saab EV-1, Saab 98, the Saab 99 Combi Coupé, the Saab 900 and the Saab 900 convertible. He also guided the co-operation project with Fiat, that led to the Saab 9000. He made the original drawings of the 'new generation' Saab 900, in 1988, before the involvement of General Motors in the company.
I owned 4 Saab 900 i and 9àà turbo and I don't want to go back on the tragic history of design at Saab, but how can we explain the disappearance of this emblematic brand without thinking of the person in charge who, one day, decided to stop the design of the 900 and not to make it evolve as Porsche did with the 911 ?
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