Here’s an interesting Saab video story from the former Soviet Union.

By now, you’ve probably heard that Saab cars used for special purposes at airports around the world. Usually we see them on the big airports in the West, but Not commonly known that that Saab cars are used as surface friction testers at airports in the former Soviet Union.

Most of these special purpose vehicles created on the basis of Saab vehicles by The Sarsys Friction Tester (SFT) company. In the following promotional video from 1998, in the Soviet era, we see Saab 900 at airport Sheremetyevo near Moscow: