Damn those timezone differences! And thanks for all the comments and emails about these......
To be honest, I don't want to see these. I know they're inevitable, but I really want to see the car properly, when it's unveiled.
But you can't help but look, can you?
Carscoop have found a 2010 Saab 9-5 out and about somewhere, and snapped a couple of quick images, including an uncovered interior.
Here's a couple of snippets - and here's the link where you'll see them all in their full glory.
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I'm very eager to see more.. couldn't imagine it to look anything like that until now.
If you go by the reviews already, they are saying the interior is top notch, class leading. Black plastic doesn't get you "class leading", I think there still yet to strip off in that interior.
Wanna see it with my own eyes!
we were shown a static picture of the interior. it is esentially the "green ice appearance" but it wont be a cover as much as it highlighted by it. But the 9-4X interior is like 96% what we were shown as what the 9-5 will be.
It seems to get a little better looking each time I see it. Anyone have any idea if there's a wagon/estate mule lurking anywhere yet that we might get a squint at or is it too soon?
(The picture with an Astra in the foreground.)
Anyone able to tell in the pic with the silver car in front whether there's hatch lines ? Seems to me the silver car "conveniently" blocked enough of the rear to prevent us from seeing if it's a hatch or trunk.
http://www.desktopcar.net/wallpaper/15062-2/Saab_9-2X_09.jpg
And I'm with Tiago, it is no Hofmeister Knick.
You can clearly see the shutlines and the fact that the trunklid overlaps the bottom or the rear windscreen.
Now we can say, that was the first picture of the NG 9-5 dashboard.
And sometimes slightly details make huge differences.
One thing is for SURE. No trunk Griffin badge :-(
Can someone who's seen the car give me a yay or nay on that one? I think this car has the potential to be something truly beautiful, especially to people who know and understand Saab's design language.
I'd like to see that.
Aside from that, I'm liking what I see....
It's geting better and better.
Hope that there is true manual transmition
in the mix with Aero
It's reported that SAAB NG 9-5 Aero is hands down
better performer than Opel insignia OPC.
We also know that SAAB 9-5 is larger and weigh more
due size extra insulation, stronger body for crash
protection and more gear/features,yet still outperforms
Opel OPC.
All that lets me belive that 9-5 aero must pack more HP
and torque under hood as well verry good transmition .
I love the rear end. Gah, this will be my next car.
BTW, that is no Astra, it's a Signum.
What worries me more though, is the apparent chrome framing around the headlights. This is easily the worst detail of the 9-5 (and of any Saab ever to be honest), and they have decided too keep it?!
Haven't got a clue from what point in time onward we should expect final design decisions. Any suggestions?
BUT you can´t help looking can you..?
Anyway. I´d say that the rear end is VERY similar to Tiago´s CGI some time back, and thats a good thing!
It looks really sleek and when seen as a complete car and not just som fuzzy spy-pics of parts of the car, I an certain tha it is gonna be stunning!.
One Aero SportCombi for me please!
As for the interior, well the overall layout and design looks fantastic! This is a pre pre production car, and I think we should have this in mind. Indications has shown that ALL of the journos who has driven the car has been positively surprised by the quality of the car and I am confident that the green-icy look is still out there to be displayed in some way or another. (maybe Aero-trim..?)
I support this car to 110% and I´m certain that it will be a hit.
Like I said One Aero please! SportCombi that is :)
Cheers!
I think this white beauty is one of the first "pre"-production units.
Design freeze was sometime last year, the tooling has to be done afterwards, and nobody thought at that time production would be moved to Sweden.
The car does look good, but it will take good marketing to sell it as part of Saab's downsizing future plan... It's really big, and I am quite sure I will not be considering a car of that size. (Possibly the Citröen C6 one day...)
I don't mind the lack of hatch, provided there's a wagon variant. The next 9-3, however, had better get one.
were almost 100% real,
will You publish them on the SU?
thanx: Z!
yeah,it looks like a Turbo-badge is attached to it.
I hope the tail will not look as much A6 when it's seen together with the rest of the car.
Anyone else see Peugeot 607 in that trunk shape?
Also the hockey stick in chrome, follows the lower edge of the window line and ceases at the top of the rear quarter light - very subtly done, like it!
Rear evokes 607 and A6 but that chrome strip is pure 7 series :(
Wish the SAAB was a little larger too?
what do you mean with larger ??
It is already quite large.
And you are right, there is from this angle some 607 and some A6 similarity, but my experience looking at parked cars from akward angles is, you can always see another car from a certain point of view, but putting the pieces together you normally get something unique ( or a chinese carbon copy).
Agree that every car has aspects of another - there are only so many ways you can put a box on 4 wheels!
Looking good so far, like the interior shots too, solid, large and driver-centric, pure Saab, not Audi derived either, phew!
So I suppose large enough.
I think the "Wish the SAAB was a little larger" remark was about the size of the logo, not the size of the car.
I can read OFF on the knob and the Symbol loks like the TCS Symbol.
Does it mean the driver will be able to change the TCS-Settings ?
sorry Belfast_Saab.
could that small text below "Turbo" be XWD. If I squint my eyes I can just about see it :)
I like what I see.
Beautiful design: sporty, distinctive, innovative ....... in other words a REAL SAAB......
I feel this car will be turning our fortune around.
C
The newer wrapped exterior pictures *seem* to have a different mirror on them that is more rounded on the top and toned down.
I think these interior pictures are older by at least a couple months.
the good thing about Exif is, you get a lot of info about the pictures.
The interior pictures were taken this week. There are some prototypes with Insignia rear mirrors, I think the first ones. So the pictures aren't old, but the prototype. So I think some surfaces hadn't the final material.
Maybe this is why SAAB showed the interior.