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I don’t know how many of you Swedes read King Magazine. I’m guessing it must be some kind of mens mag.
Anyway, apparently they’ve listed the Saab 9-3x as one of their 10 Favourite Things in their July edition.
A skewiff scan of a very nice image:
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You’ve probably seen it elsewhere already, but for the record, here’s a photo of the last Saab 9-5 sedan of the current generation.
It was built last Friday and is a RHD model destined for the UK.
And yes, I think the reason I didn’t get this when everyone else did is because I showed the 9-5 CGIs. Contact has been re-established and is cordial.
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And finally, for you Viggen-o-philes, there’s a good writeup about it over at Examiner.com (with Video)
Beginning with the rally heroics of the insect-like 96, and continuing through the feisty 99 Turbo and 900 SPG, the carmaker certainly has a penchant for creating some thrilling cars. But those aforementioned machines all pale in comparison to the most raw and rowdy front-drive Saab ever built: the epic 9-3 Viggen.
Amen. I still miss mine everyday.
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Hmm.. The last 9-5 to GB..
Saab usually place the last of every model at the Saab museum. Why not the last 9-5SS? Or did they build one extra for that purpose? Might it be that the black 9-5SS is the last customer sold 9-5SS?
Nice picture of the 9-3X in Men´s mag.
Cheers/Tom
Meant to write the for men mag King..
It’s great to hear the communication channels between Trollhättan/Mölnlycke and Tasmania have been reestablished!
I think this well worth taking notice!
Ahh the Viggen, scourge of motoring jounalists everywhere. The delinquest child with so much potential. Certain one of, if not the most, favourite Saabs of mine.
Swade: Raspberry cordial or lime cordial? Or just that really lame tasting tropical stuff? I’d hope for the former but expect the latter.
My cheers to the 9-5 and the men who built her!
saabista63 +1
charlie +1 (though I would love to know what the men and women in that lovely photo were thinking.)
I have enjoyed reading about all the different SAABs that give this community great pleasure. Seeing that photo of the last or last-to-be-sold “Dame Edna” 9-5 just reminds me that I’m also delighted with my 2007 9-5 (even with the shiny rims on the glasses and automatic and standard non-Aero suspension and interior). Yes (with reference to a recent posting) a well loaded Cadillac CTS was available for slightly less cash, but the Dame has class, and with little fuss and sipping regular grade fuel, enough poke from the 2.3T to play “sleeper” when conditions allow. And it looks as though the outline of future SAAB front-end styling got its beginning here.
As for K-Segg, the fewer other distractions the better.
Cheers to all, especially SW!
Bruce
nine hours to Fritz Henderson launching new GM, and that Bob Lutz is staying, but in a new role. Big plans for Cadillac even though they will reduce dealerships from 1,500 to 500. How that affects Saab in the U.S. is a question that will not be answered for some time because the dealerships are winding down slowly. unless that plan is now changing.
just thought you’d like to know Lutz is not retiring.
and, by this time tomorrow, Saab will be 60% owned by the U.S. government.
oops, WSJ reporting three hours ago that Saab will be left behind in Old GM aka Motors Liquidation Co.
in some ways, that could be better for Saab…
Any idea why the Sedan was cancelled, but not the wagon? Is the wagon so much more popular? While it is quite usual habit in the idustry to first replace the sedan, and only lateron the wagon, I wouldn’t call this a replacement, when no successor to a model is in sight.
I think there is going to be a delay getting the NG 9-5 wagon in production. This way they can continue to have the wagon segment covered.
Isn’t the wagon always introduced about a year later on than the sedan. I mean, isn’t that what all car makers do?
Meaning that it is natural for the wagon to be canceled about a year later (not beeing built longer) than the sedan.
That’s usually been the way with Saab, Mr J. Saab 9-5 wagon was a year after the 9-5 back in the late 90s. 9-3SC was several years after the Sport Sedan.
It’s a great magazine and I forgot to tip you of about this one. Anyway you seem to get the information anyway as you usually do so…
Hi there, I just love that 9-5, Its so beautiful. I wish it was coming to me in NZ! Are there anymore pictures of it anywhere?
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