Saab are back

[The Boss]

New Saab 9-3 unveiled | 3 | Auto Express


I am pretty chuffed about reading this!

 

[grober]

http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/general-discussion/163126-saab-restart-production.html
Best also to read this

Saab To Use H-Engine in 9-3 (eventually?) - Swadeology

and this

NEVS 9-3"N" Begins Production Monday/December 2 - SaabCentral Forums

 

[Dee-124CAB]

I love Saab, but that does look rather uninspiring for an all new model....

 

[DSM10000]

It is the previous model with a new badge.


The 9-3 was a reasonable car but nothing exciting or outstanding and the quality of the interior was poor and this ,along with other dynamic failings would need adressing to ever make it saleable unless the price was suitably low.

 

[cinek]

Had a 93 Saab going some years back.
Still, up to this day I can remember the comfort given by the seats this car had.

 

[DSM10000]

Had a 93 Saab going some years back.
Still, up to this day I can remember the comfort given by the seats this car had.

They always had good seats and were extremely good on safety and being "different" but it was partly this that made them fail as the cost of production was very high and sales were generally low. GM taking over and stripping out cost by lowering quality just finished them off eventually.

A shame, I enjoyed my 9-5 in some aspects, a lovely 3 litre turbo petrol with excellent low torque and well equipped, awaful handling and quality was really not what you would expect on a car listed at around £30,000 new.

 

[bpsorrel]

It is the previous model with a new badge.


The 9-3 was a reasonable car but nothing exciting or outstanding and the quality of the interior was poor and this ,along with other dynamic failings would need adressing to ever make it saleable unless the price was suitably low.

This "new" 9-3 is mainly for China with just a thousand or so available to the Swedish market, for the die-hard Saabisti!

The all-new version is due later next year - probably in EV and maybe, hybrid forms.

They used the final "Griffin" version released by Victor Muller just before bankruptcy and it has a 220 bhp GM petrol engine, mainly because the bankruptcy estate had loads of the engines lying around and sold them cheaply to NEVS, the company who bought the ashes of Saab.

 

[Teflonso]

Hooray. The world was running short of cars with confortable seats.

 

[grober]

Further death throes or Phoenix from the ashes?

Indian billionaire Anand Mahindra of auto group Mahindra & Mahindra who also owns Ssangyong Musso is close to a deal to buy the remnants of Swedish car group Saab from NEVS [National Electric Vehicle Sweden] a Hong Kong company, which attempted to relaunch the Saab as a manufacturer of electric cars after they bought it from the Dutch Spyker. I'm not holding my breath here.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b3add3fc-8067-11e4-9907-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3MNFDP1ED

 

[wemorgan]

How to become a millionaire. Start off as a billionaire and buy Saab.

 

[E55BOF]

Good luck to them, but I won't be going back to a Saab after the E55 and E55K; too slow.

 

[KennyN]

For seven years I had a 9-3 Aero Coupe (with the Viggen kit) and loved it and contemplated, amongst others, a newish 9-5 before the CLS but felt it was too much of a risk being such a new model and all the "snagging" that comes with the first batch of a new car.

If i had the space i would hunt down a Viggen soft top and have it as my Sunday car.

Kenny

 

[def90cars]

a newish 9-5 before the CLS but felt it was too much of a risk being such a new model and all the "snagging" that comes with the first batch of a new car.

So you gave a 15 year plus design (Saab are Vectras) for MB most unreliable cars in years... the CLS is W211 in drag.

 

[KennyN]

So you gave a 15 year plus design (Saab are Vectras) for MB most unreliable cars in years... the CLS is W211 in drag

Yep , the Saab only let me down once in my seven years of ownership when its nine year old battery gave up the ghost, wheras my four year old CLS350 has been back at the dealers three times in one year, thats progress for you.:fail

Having said that the 9-3`s diff was making expensive noises , there was corrosion starting to show on the rear arches the p/s pipes that run along the bottom of the radiator were starting to look worse for wear so it was time to move it on and get something a bit newer, a 9-5 wagon was an option but i didnt like the facelifted interior plus they were hard to come by with low milage.

Kenny

 

[bpsorrel]

Agreed. I owned a Saab 93 convertible for three years with no repairs needed at all whereas my CLS cost over £3000 in repairs in it's first (and only) year with me. Admittedly warranty covered the costs, but what a serious let down that car was!

However, I don't think I would look at a Mahindra/NEVS "Saab" even if they do eventually make one. My guess would be that they'll end up as re-badged SsangYongs...

 

[Giantvanman]

We had a 9-3 TiD150 for seven years (zero faults) and a 9-5 2.3T 260 for four years (one minor fault that self corrected!) and would have continued with Saab had they stayed in business. Now they are 'back', not sure I would be tempted away from MB by them though, as good as they were. Once bitten….I lost my warranties on the 9-5 when they went under.

 

[flango]

Definitely agreed Saab are far more reliable overall than MB never had a thing wrong with my 96, 900 or 93 all bombproof with regular maintenance

I love my W208 but what I have seen of MB in the trade I would have another saab in a heartbeat a well sorted aero hot can be tuned for a 0 - 60 of around 5 secs so slow they are not

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[Giantvanman]

We had a 9-3 TiD150 for seven years (zero faults) and a 9-5 2.3T 260 for four years (one minor fault that self corrected!) and would have continued with Saab had they stayed in business. Now they are 'back', not sure I would be tempted away from MB by them though, as good as they were.