This is one for all car lovers, not just Saabs. It’s a short film I was shown a few years ago and fell in love with, just an amazing bit of automotive footage.
It’s called Rendezvous and filmed exclusively through the streets of Paris.
Although there have been endless arguments as to what car was used, you’ll soon know it wasn’t a Saab (just listen). However, that doesn’t stop me wishing I could hop in my 9-3 and blast though the very same route.
Enjoy everybody.
Saab vs. Scepticism 
I believe it was a 308gts
Or that might have been something else I watched
Have you seen 32 hours 7 minutes ? The story of the cannonball
Not sure, I remember seeing an entire scene of the Polizia M5 a few years back, think that may have been the Gumball though.
This is just a small extract of a film by Francois Truffaut. Decades before the Go Pro, the filmmaker strapped a camera to the front bumper of his 308gts and roars across Paris just before sunrise to finish at Montparnasse where he meets a beautiful girl. Très français! Some of the scenes are surrealistic as he goes through red lights etc… No visual effects are used. I have a VHS copy of this film somewhere. It was only available underground for obvious reasons.
Great information, thank you, I remember digging up a load of information on this when I was first shown it, didn’t know it was just a clip, be great to see the entire film.
Thanks for adding this, I just love watching it, and the sound, wow.
I watched the short film some time ago too, and I was told that it was filmed with a camera on a Mercedes with sound effects, these effects probably directly being added to the car.
If you ever do this with the Saab 9-3, please film it 🙂
They redid the same route with a Ferrari and used the sound of that recording
*308gts is a Ferrari.
You can look up the explanation of the making of by the director of the film on Youtube, where they do the same route again in an interview some time ago. Interesting story
The original film is by Francois Truffaut who used his personal car, a Ferrari (308gts I believe). There are no special effects whatsoever. What director are you talking about?
I’m talking about the director Lelouch and the short film Pour un rendezvous (as he calls it in the interview) or C’etait un rendezvous (under which title you can mostly find it on Youtube). He also states there were no special effects added nor is the footage accelerated. The only mixing that is done is the adding of the Ferrari sound to the footage that is shot with the Mercedes. So he did the route twice, once for the images and once for the sound.
All my apologies. I got my French directors mixed up. Tks for putting me right. Doesn’t the film finish with an image of the Ferrari?
Just watched it again after many years. Still totally crazy, and no scene of any car at the end. Enjoy: https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2043762289244
No problem! Thanks for the link. Indeed, it is totally crazy. I’ve heard something about a Swedish Miss Universe being the girlfriend Lelouch has an appointment with. So still a little bit of Swedish flavour added to the story 🙂