Doubling down is a risky move in blackjack, but one that could result in twice the payout. That same strategy might be applied to today’s brace of Saabs. We’ll have to see if their combo price stacks the deck against them.

Nissan once was called Datsun in America and under that brand they sold some really good looking cars as well as some really desperately ugly cars. For whatever reason they decided to give the Datsun brand the old heave-ho, and in the ‘80s, started calling even their U.S. bound cars Nissans.

Under those later auspices they built some really fine looking cars. That is, until something with the name Murano came out. No one’s quite sure what happened then, but with few exceptions, Nissans haven’t been the same ever since.

One of the nicer looking cars Nissan has offered us—maybe even the nicest—was the S13 sporty coupe. We had one yesterday, , and it holds up well esthetically even today. It also presented as nearly stock, an amazing feat for a car that’s numero uno on the Yo Boi! drifter crowd modder list.

Unfortunately the car did need one modification, that being to its $8,995 price tag. That was at least the view of 62-percent of you who dunned the car with a Crack Pipe loss. Some even averred in the comments that the price was almost twice as high as reasonable. Twice as high? Hmm, what if there had also been twice as many of them?

We can’t contemplate that now because we have to move on to today’s candidate, which is .

Now, when you think of Saabs and sports cars you may have visions of rally cars—perhaps upside down with Erik Carlsson hanging from his five points—but not generally about pointy prowed two-seaters. Well, that is unless you’re well versed in the form of automotive poetry known as the Sonett.

Built from 1966 to ’74, the Sonett II, V4, and III models competed with Triumph’s Spitfire, the MG Midget, and a spate of new econoboxes for entry-level driver dollars. The big differences with the Swedes was the use of a unique V4 engine that they sourced from Ford, and too course, FWD.

The final Sonett model, the III was the most well thought out of the series, however it still embodied a certain level of kit car-ness about it. Still, the III’s bodywork proved handsome, its headlights popped up, and practically no one could tell that the model’s entire center section heralded back to the original Sonett II of 1966. And here we have two of them!

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