Red afterburner on my 9-5 Aero
Once again SaabsUnited is the first media to spread good Saab News.
I spoke this morning with Peter Hallberg of the Swedish Dealer Organization.
There is great news for past and future Saab owners in Sweden.
The so called Nybilsgarantin (New car warranty) will be back just as it has been.
The cars can be set in two categories, 1. Cars sold before the bankruptcy. 2. Cars sold after.
Technically the underlaying agreements are somewhat different but for the owners it is the same simple ownership as always.
This is great news for buyers, dealers and service.
I guess now is the time to go to Your dealer and pick up Your dream Saab!
The fog light surrounds and the styling of the rear exhaust pipes are the tell-tale sign of an Aero.
The signature headlights are optional on the Vector I think.
Some nice features you should consider:
– Aero styling as mentioned above
– HUD
– satnav (I would not bother with this had it not been for the nice HUD integration…)
– SmartBeam with signature lights
– If you, for some reason, do not have lane departure warning, I believe it is possible to get automatic high-beam operation (included with SmartBeam?)
Best of luck.
Peter,
the pedals from Hirsch look much better. 😉
On the rear, you can even mount the Hirsch rear diffuser on a vector, so if you Hirsch things up, you only will have different front fog light surroundings.
Another difference between Aero and Vector is that the Vector is the only one with full tan interior, the Aero has always black interior even with tan seats. And the seats are different.
But… There is no hole in the bumper cover on the vector for the exhaust pipes..?
You have to make the wholes by yourself. You get a drawing to do it right, but it is best if you also take the diffuser. 😉
Yeah, that rear diffuser is something I’d want for my own 9-5. Sounds like a much better idea than carving up the original bumper cover.
Think the diffuser looks like…… I saw it and asked the guys just to put on the quadpipe.
Not suitable for a long limo!
But makes your car more stable at high speed. 😛
I guess high speed stability is helped by the plastics in a very marginal way. I would say a driver would not feel any difference with it on or off!
The Aero has much better seats than the standard Vector seats. Except the car you are looking at has the vector trim with premium leather, than you will have the same nice good seats. 😉
Peter, what is the insurance like? Tompa keeps telling me that Aero is more expensive to insure.
The price you quoted for the Vector is 30K more than the Aero..?
It’s cheaper to insure than my 9-3 Aero V6… don’t think there’s any difference between the Vector and the Aero though, as long as the engine is the same.
And ooops, the price for the Aero is supposed to be 330’000SEK.
In that case, the vector sounds like the better deal as you say.
If you are lucky, the front piece with the foglight cutout might be available somewhere. That, combined with the nice rear diffusor from Hirsch should help make your 9-5 even more unique.
I just passed 40000 km in mine. Hardly any distance at all!
Hirsch advertise the AERO front, for approx. 20000 SEK.
You don’t think I would miss the finer leather and the tiny but yet nice extra details of the Aero, then?
Rune,
you have to change the whole front bumper if you want to have a Aero front.
But you get the whole Hirsch Aero package with an Aero Bumper for only 19.900 SEK !!!
It will still need prime and painting, but it looks like a cheap way of getting a fake Aero. 😉
There’s a carbon gray Aero in Halmstad for a nice price, but of course without Drive Sense and the navigation :/ I could live without Drive Sense, but I think I’d get bored of the interior without the navigation… Still a good price, compared to the fully loaded Aero in Biva Uppsala that I’m madly in love with. Talk about i-landsproblem! ^__^
Go with Your heart… Go Uppsala. Everything including RSE, 19 Turbine, Pilot-stuff etc. What a car. One can not be to picky when there are not that many around.
I would have taken that one if I was shopping around!
Great news!
would be nice if SCNA announced the same for North American cars…
Yes, I feel a tad bitter that I buy a swedish car where I have no warranty on my 2010 9-5 but the swedes do…
This is fantastic news for the owners of a new SAAB in Sweden!
The prices are so right here in Sweden now. A buyer get one heck-of-a car now. Could be the last SAAB hope not but why pass the chance of getting one.
I wonder what happens if a Non-Swede buys a Saab in Sweden will that car still carry the warranty? EU is all about free flow of goods and service. What about warranty? Do we have any lawyers here on SaabsUnited, who can enlighten us?
This is great news for everyone actually, with Sweden taking action, USA and other places can’t be far behind. Wonder how they treat cars sold before and after bankruptcy, since the people who bought cars after were told “no warranty” from the get go.
I bought my 2011 93 SportCombi in November, about a month before the bankruptcy. I just hope that they treat the people who bought new Saabs pre-bankruptcy to a better coverage plan or something extra compared to those who bought them on fire sale clerance deals. If I waited I could have purchased a 93X for less than my 93, makes me very upset and full of regret for when I bought it.
It is a beautiful car and I love it, no complaints besides how the customers are getting shafted 😉
+1
I might be wrong but I believe the Concept garages have all closed down, hence the lack of information.
No Cerulean you are not wrong. I lost my job with Concept with only one hour notice the day before Christmas Eve. Not really possible to have contacted customers with barely even enough time to gather your belongings!
Really sorry to hear that Martin. Perhaps you should consider an Employment Tribunal as I`m sure that Concept`s action is illegal.
Thanks for making my heart skip a beat only to come crashing down 1 second later after reading your parenthesis. Killing me…
Peter,
NG95
If you have a choice of MY2010 (A400xxxx -chassis nr) or MY2011 (B400xxxx -chassis nr.) then I suggest the MY2011. They have most of the bugs ironed out and there are more updates for software available. Especially the Body Control Module…
So check the last 8 digits of the VIN. If the last 8 (short VIN) starts with “B” then go for it. If it’s an “A” I would walk away.
95Ng its a really great car. But Gm in Russia made a huge price on it. Saab 95 began cost as mb e300….
Are you sure about that? Usually the MBs do not come nearly as well-equipped as the same-size Saabs.
I agree with you, but price on 95NG liner 1.6 started since 39k euro, it was more expensive than volvo s80 2.5T (31k euro) and price on top 95 aero xwd v6 was 72k euro!!!! It is a bit more expensive than e350 4matic, or e300 4matik with accessories. After this price, i started hate GM.
I know about 93 🙂 I have bought 93 2.0T in 2008 🙂
V50\S40\C30 its a ford focus 2, they are like a ship on the road 🙂
I had a 2008 9-3 SC 1.8t myself. Loved that car. Drove a lot in the winter and it never skipped a beat. (sold it when I moved to Sweden)
Well, until someone kicks production in gear again, it is all water under the bridge.