1993 Saab 900 Commemorative Edition is Our Bring a Trailer Pick of the Day

• This one-owner, special edition 1993 Saab 900 is up for sale on the Bring a Trailer auction website right now.

• Aside from its obvious charms, it's important as one of the last few hundred coupes Saab built for the U.S. in the 900's last model year. Having said that, the car was unchanged for more than a decade at that point.

• The auction is set to end next Friday, May 20, but bidding is already up to $33,065 with a week to go.

The Swedes had no sacrificial justification to build the same cars and fiercely resist change from the late 1970s all throughout the early 1990s. This wasn't the immediate postwar era, for instance, when automakers had to stick with the limited parts they could get. No, Saab was just conservative, and cheap. And people loved them for it.

That brings us to this a one-owner 1993 Saab 900 selling on Bring a Trailer (which, like Car and Driver, is part of Hearst Autos). As the Commemorative Edition, the car's owner explains, this 900 is one of the last 325 hatchbacks built for the U.S. in its final model year. Another 500 cars ended the convertible's run for 1994. Esoteric discussions over headlights, grilles, and carbureted versus fuel-injected engines could go on forever. We'll keep it simple: This was the same damn car Saab had been selling since 1978.

While an all-new 900 dropped in 1994 and later renamed itself the 9-3, General Motors helped develop those cars (it purchased half of Saab in 1990). Among the Saab faithful, the 900,000 900 models built during the first generation were the purest, most iconic expression of the brand before GM butted in. Its devoted owners were furious when GM killed the company in 2011, as they should have been.