Maybe you’ve got to be a car guy-or-pronoun-of-your-choice to notice it.

But Thursday afternoon, I couldn’t help but notice that the first-date/widowed mom under threat who’s got to make a dash home to save her kid and her babysitting kid sister in “Drop” and Rami Malek’s cryptanalayist in “The Amateur”‘s choice of late film getaway vehicle were one and the same.

The “safety” pioneers, a cool ride famous for engineering survivable crashes, Saabs were the car of the screenwriters/director’s choice in both films.

For years, Saabs were what real college professors, and that academics in the movies drove. It was the quintessential “car with character,” a “you are what you drive” indicator that said a lot about movie character when you saw them driving one.

Hip, go-your-own-way quirky, quick and sporty, “safe” but not entirely practical.

They were expensive to maintain, and the moment Saab went out of business, you ceased seeing them on the roads — almost instantly. I see one or two a year, now. Tops.

I test drove Saabs a couple of times, and regretted not buying them both times, “torque steer” be damned.

Dead and gone but not forgotten, the “tenured professsor” car of choice for decades of movies has another moment.