Following the sad news that Saab won’t be showing at the Chicago Auto Show in the next few weeks, I’ve received some advice from Saab Cars North America about the official schedule for US Auto Shows coming up in the next few months.
I asked specifically about the 9-5 being available at auto shows, hence the answer as follows:
Tentatively, the schedule for the 9-5 at auto shows looks like this:
- Cleveland – February 27 to March 7th
- Dallas – March 3 to March 7
- New York – March 31 to April 11
Additional notes:
Greg Abbott emailed me, saying that Saab are still slated to appear at the Minneapolis Auto Show from March 6th to the 14th and a quick look at that link shows them listed on the floorplan. Perhaps this will go ahead, but without the 9-5 in attendance?
And from AJ Murphy, via comments:
SAAB will be represented at the Cincinnati Enquirer Auto Expo c/o Just SAAB. We, as a dealer, have purchased the space and will provide our own cars. It won’t be as “fancy” as if GM had provided our display and cars but we felt it was important to show that we’re still here and to be able to spread the message of SAAB being purchased.
Dates:
February 25 – 28, 2010
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Keep me posted on the Dallas – March 3 to March 7 showing. It’s 400 miles from Lubbock. In Texas that’s a Sunday drive.
Looks like I might be making a trip to Dallas. San Antonio to Dallas…nice 4-5 hour drive. 9-5. Totally worth it.
Better add an extra hour for going thru Austin. I-35 is not my idea of fun. Good luck Cowboy.
Haha this is true. And I said “nice”, when actually it is quite possible one of the worst ways to drive through Texas. 35 is filled with crazy drivers all the time, and yeh Austin alone makes the drive terrible. Too bad I’m use to it, 3 years of driving to Baylor to see the lady friend.
yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
cleveland
There was no Saab presence at either the Detroit or Grand Rapids Auto shows this year.
Any news on the San Antonio Auto Show? I might actually be in Colorado when it is there in Dallas
It seems the San Antonio Auto Show website is terrible and hasn’t even been updated to reflect the new year.
Got the Dallas Auto Show bookmarked.
Take Central Expressway (U.S. 75) southbound. Take exit to I-35/U.S. 77 to Field Street. Turn left under the freeway and veer to the right onto Griffin Street. The Convention Center is straight ahead.
I was on Griffen St. last weekend. (On Sunday)!
Cleveland, on my birthday? Great. If the 9-5 is there, I’ll be there.
Go Just Saab!
Awesome attitude. I hope you clean up at the show at get heaps of enquiries and orders.
Best of success,
I am so at NY Swade. My prediction is that something is unveiled there. Geneva and NY are the big boys, and NY is perfect for the 9-4x. Northeast+XWD+150 preproduction models already+no more major autoshows for quite some time in the US. Makes sense.
Will be at the Dallas show for sure. Heck yeah!
Cool – Saab booth back at the Cleveland Auto Show. And we get to see the new 9-5.
Swade-
Do you have any word on when dealers will receive a 9-5 for demo? If production starts in April, it seems like the dealers should have something on the lot soon even if they don’t have their allocations. There is virtually no product left in my region.
I don’t have anything specific, but I can’t imagine management wanting to keep US dealers waiting any longer than they need to.
There’s a shortage of product everywhere.
6 hours to Dallas. There were no SAABs at the Houston show. We just might have to do that one.
So March 6th & 7th will see at least three simultaneous shows…? Maybe there’s only two 9-5s in the US?
Is there someone (in THN) who can tell us something more on the current production in the factory? Is production speeding up? Are there any 9-5 NG being built? Is the new 9-5 tooling still in Germany? …
Do we know if the 9-4x will be shown in NY??
It would be great if one of those production representative units recently built in Mexico were shown instead of the Bio concept.
I still think missing Chicago is a huge mistake. Chicago is the most attended show in the country and the premier in the heart of Modwest Saab country. I’m assuming it has to do with the transfer of ownership not being final. I wish they would make arrangements with Gartner or one of the other Chicago dealers to be present. At a minuimum get the cars their and string up a big banner saying “Saab a bright independent future is just around the corner”
Is it for sure that the 9-5 is going to be in Clevland Ohio?
We’ll be attending the Syracuse Auto Show in Syracuse, NY this Saturday. It is a dealer sponsored show. Their website shows Saab with 1980 square feet, the same as M-B. In fact, the Saab dealer, Sports Car Centre of Syracuse, has the space located between M-B and Porsche-Audi.
As stated in the post, the info about the coming shows with the 9-5 (I asked specifically about the 9-5 and the car was mentioned in the response I received) came from Saab Cars North America.
I just spoke to Paul Weller’s wife (Paul owns Sports Car Centre in Syracuse) on the phone. Unfortunately, they had to give up their display space at the auto show this week because of the timing of the Spyker announcement and they have NO stock of 09′s to display. They will have, in another area of the show, a 2008 9-7X CPO, on display. Hey, better than nothing! Good news, they do have an order for new stock, and they are really psyched for the 2010 9-5!
I’ll be at the Volvo booth in Cleveland. Can’t wait to see the 9-5, though.
That is really a sad news but thank God the schedules are now available. Surely, people can hardly wait to visit some of those car shows.
haha, Eddie is so funny! I love him.
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