21-year-old Kaylan Morley is not just your average Saab enthusiast. Kaylan has grown up around Saabs -- her dad restores them and her brother builds them to rally race. She works at a Saab dealership, owns six custom Saabs -- including a 2006 9-3 SportCombi -- and drives a highly modified 500+ horsepower Saab 9000 Aero as her daily ride. Because of these credentials, we gave Kaylan the opportunity to join other Saab aficionados at the Saab Turbo X Driving Academy at Road Atlanta, where they all pushed the new Saab Turbo X to its limits.

So jump in, buckle up and click on the video link for a ride with Kaylan in the new Turbo X. Just don’t try this on public roads.

Saab Turbo X Driving Academy-Road Atlanta racetrack in Georgia, 2008
Video Courtesy of General Motors Corporation

The 2008 Saab Turbo X is a limited-edition 9-3 (only 600 for the U.S., in either sport sedan or sport combi body styles) that pays homage to the 1985 Saab 900 SPG, a classic coupe known for its trademark black exterior treatment, three-arm alloys, and turbo engine. Thus, the Turbo X comes dressed in one hue -- metallic jet black -- and is treated to twin-spoke three-arm wheels and a robust 280-horse turbocharged V-6 that, thanks to 11.6 psi of maximum boost (up from 8.7 for the Aero's 255-horse 2.8 turbo) makes the X the brawniest 9-3 ever. More important, the X's 280 horses are routed via not the front wheels but rather all four, courtesy of a new Haldex 4 all-wheel-drive system.

Saab donated tuition to the Saab Turbo X Academy for the first 100 U.S. buyers of the new model. An adaptation of Saab's popular Aero Academy, it was a two-day course geared to the Turbo X - held at the Road Atlanta racetrack in Northeast Georgia.

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