Anyway, back in the early '90s, the safety-obsessed Swedes designed a version of the venerable Saab 9000, nicknamed the Prometheus, with no steering wheel.

Saab has a quirky history that ended too soon with General Motors' Chapter 11 ... The prototype car came to life under a program run from 1987 to 1995 called the pan-European Prometheus, ...

But Saab was never all that great at making money, Clarkson and May tell us. Eventually GM sold them off, and the new 9-5 wasn't enough to save them, relegating the world's architects to buying 5 ...