1998
- Best in Class, cars $25,000-$35,000 (900 S Turbo) – Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, USA
1996
- Among Top Ten Sports Cars – Consumer’s Review, USA
- IBCAM British Steel Auto Design Award (Saab 900 2.0i Coupé) – The Institute of British Carriage and Automobile Manufacturers, Great Britain
- Best Buy – Consumers’ Digest, USA
- New world-records for endurance, at Talladega, USA
1995
- Top Car in its Price Class (Saab 900 SEV6) – American Automobile Association (AAA)
- Best Buy – Consumers’ Digest, USA
- Among Top Ten Sports Cars – Consumer’s Review, USA
- Technology Award 1995 for Saab Sensonic – Autocar, Great Britain
1993 and 1994
- Top Choice in annual Car of the Year reader poll – Autoweek Magazine, USA
- Annual Special Prize To Saab Safeseat – Motoring Journalists’ Club, Denmark
- One of the Ten Most Improved Cars And Trucks of 1994 – Syndicated automotive experts Mike Anson and Steven Parker, USA
- Import Car of the Year 1993/94 in Japan – RJC (Automotive Researchers and Journalists Conference of Japan), Japan
- Best Buy – Consumers’ Digest, USA
- Excellent Swedish Design 1994 – The Swedish Society of Crafts and Design, Sweden
- Family Car of the Year (900S) – Motoring ’94, Canada
- Scandinavian Design Prize 1994 – The Scandinavian Design Council (The Nordic Design Centres)
- Executive Car of the Year 1994 – Portuguese Car Trophy
- 1993 Best Buy – Consumers’ Digest, USA
- 1994 Design of the Year – Automobile magazine, USA
- Best New Car – Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine, USA
- Car of the Year 1993 – Moottori magazine, Finland
- Best of What’s New – Popular Science, USA
- 2nd Most Popular Car – STATUS magazine, Germany
- 1994 Technology of the Year (for Saab Trionic) – Automobile magazine, USA
