My interest was piqued by Till's viewing of a Saab 9-3x in Jet Black. I'd seen 9-3x's in red and in white, but nothing other than that.
So off to the Saab.co.uk site (and a big hello to Jonathan Nash today) I went and made use of their Build Your Saab 9-3x function to check out the color palette:
Click to enlarge. I'm leaning towards Glacier Silver or Carbon Grey....
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Carbon Grey....
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Glacier Silver...
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Jet Black
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Laser Red...
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Nocturne Blue...
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Snow Silver...
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Titan Grey...
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Arctic White...
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Yeah, I'll have one of those.

Eh? That´s an older mans choice. I´m 38 and you must be sooo much older... 39 like ;-)
Realy I´d go for the Carbon Grey too. But stil.. That Laser Red X is yummy
Cheers mate/Tom
It reminds me of a friend who was a tech at Mercedes telling me that "everything here is grey." As he was saying this the mechanics were wearing grey uniforms, the walls were grey, the floor was grey, and every car in the garage was some shade of grey.
Apparently the tech support from Stuttgart was grey as well ("could be this, could be that, we're not sure. Change parts randomly until the problem goes away").
Needless to say he quit that job. There's only so much grey a man can take.
My second option would be Monte Carlo Yellow, but I'm somehow missing the color. ;-)
For me it's one of the white colors thats suits the car best. The red does'nt match the color on the plastic. My 2cent only having seen the car online.
Your comment made me think of Beat poetry, haha.
I think it time for so-call Saab lover to scream to rafter for a Saab cars that distinguishable by more than the badge on the hood and trunk. It just amazes me that Saab enthusiast have accepted and found a way to celebrate these boring GM Saabs. In the same way Porsche 914 & 944 were rejected by the Porsche enthusiast, so too should have then rebadged Saabs. But come to think of it, given the crappy sales fugures, maybe they have been.
Someone at SAAB, please consider the 9-3x diesel XWD once again.. please!!!
And Jonathan Nash is a Very, very nice man.
http://www.blocket.se/dalarna/Saab_9_3_X_TTiD_23988093.htm?ca=6&w=3
Here are two Jet black 9-3X for sale in sweden.
enjoy!
I'd go for ice blue metallic with polished titanium trim.
Maybe this colour is copyrighted by GM ;)
Most Saab enthusiasts DO cry out for a return to genuine Saab design without GM ready-made pieces and other various restrictions. The product Saab has made under GM hasn't been terrible... though it DID take me a bit to get used to it. Think of it as your favorite sports team that used to be able to easily compete against the big guys and then they were under new management and weren't playing very well as a result. It's hard to give up on your team and walk away if you're an attached fan. So you watch the games and find there're some things that the new management couldn't bastardize, and it makes you hopeful that things will change. Saab hasn't really FULLY been liberated from GM yet, so it's probably going to be a few years before we see any drastic changes.
@Smoke_Jaguar4 -
Brilliant idea! I'm doubtful of a Saab custom shop for customers, or a partnership with a paint shop... But still, what an option that would be!
* More colors in stock
* As VW does: a color that is available for any model can be ordered (on special request) for any other model
* As Audi does: charge an extra number of Euros/Dollars for any color you want (some 2000 Euros in the Audi case)
Offering more than 2 colors and some shades of gray.
;)