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saab launches the new 9-4

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  • #2
    ICE HOUSE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 278 ✭✭ICE HOUSE


    Looks nice, but I wouldn't trust anything new from them.


  • #3
    ki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 532 ✭✭✭ki


    It has a mini american SUV look to it. Particularly with the flat bullish front.


  • #4
    OldGuysRule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭OldGuysRule


    Hope it helps them survive, it is big market and they need to get a share. Having driven Saabs for the past 8 or 9 years, I reckon they are going in the right direction.

    Looks like a pretty smart and capable machine.


  • #5
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,360 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Styling kind of reminds me of the current Hyundai Santa Fe.


  • #6
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    I like it.

    Most car's, aesthetically, have at least one challenging angle - and odd light shape, or grille, or whatever. In that vid at least, I can't see one, and it seems nicely done.

    White v.cool too.

    1.9TTiD and AWD would make a nice machine I'd imagine.

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  • #7
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Tbh, it doesn't even look like a Saab, could be anything in that class
    saab-9-4-x-14-01-08.jpg


  • #8
    Zubeneschamali
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    ki wrote: »
    It has a mini american SUV look to it.

    Wouldn't be surprising if it looks like a Cadillac SRX with a Saab badge, since that's what it is.


  • #9
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Saab RIP (long since)


  • #10
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,885 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    biko wrote: »
    Tbh, it doesn't even look like a Saab, could be anything in that class
    saab-9-4-x-14-01-08.jpg

    From this angle it looks like the lovechild of a Ssang Yong Rexton and the New Range Rover Evoque!


  • #11
    mumblin deaf ro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 604 ✭✭✭mumblin deaf ro


    It's a Tonka-based GM-relic mexican Saab. Unfortunately.


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  • #12
    OldGuysRule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭OldGuysRule


    Not sure what people are expecting, it is an SUV, Saab have not made one before (excluding the 9-7x which would be class above - again it was largely based on another manufacturers machine). They can hardly have kept producing the old classic 900, probably the last truly independent saab, excluding the engine I think.

    Saab as a company always invokes certain feelings amongst car enthusiasts, but when it comes to actually buying one, so many people pull back. I understand it is a little chicken and egg in terms of them earning enough from the current / recent batch of vehicles to possibly make a fully independent car. But if you like them, support them.

    Hopefully it will sell in truckloads providing stability for what is really only a niche company.


  • #13
    VolvoMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,309 ✭✭✭VolvoMan


    The lack of a diesel engine is going to kill it. They might as well not bother selling it at all in Europe.


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