A Saab 9-7 SUV, based off a Trailblazer platform. Here starts the
slide down of Saab (it all began with no batchback on the new
9-3 then the Saabaru 9-2- tho at least it's a WRX platform :smile:

http://www.motortrend.com/features/n...ws031217_saab/

Whats next, the Saab 9-9, based on the Tahoe???

 

Not to worry, both the 9-2 WRX and the 9-7 Trailblazer are temporary measures while Saab develops new product of its own.

 

By my reckoning, Saab is the last major domino to fall as far as every single freaking US market carmaker having a big old guzzling SUV in their lineup. Well, except for Audi, and you know THAT'S not far off now that the Touareg is hulking around on the roads. I understand why it's necessary for them, but it's disheartening all the same.

 

>>9-2 WRX and the 9-7 Trailblazer

ROFL, are you implying that the Saab 9-2 looks like a Subaru WRX and the 9-7 a Chevy Trailblazer? Noooooooo way

 

Thank God I had a chance to own a couple of really great Saab 900's before GM screwed everything up.

My favorite was the original 1979 900 turbo that I restored only to have an elderly driver sideswipe me and total it while I was driving it to the paint shop! That car was well ahead of its time. . . .

My mother continued to buy Saabs after GM took over and it was sad to see how both the quality and the Swedish quirkyness declined. . . .

 

When the ignition switch in my Chevy fell off the steering column and onto the floor, I must have had the first prototype Saab SUV.

 

>>Thank God I had a chance to own a couple of really great Saab 900's before GM screwed everything up.
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Amen! I had some great Saabs in the past but also felt a demise. I had a couple of those little 96s with four on the dash and freewheeling. I still see a Saab mechanic driving one around and long for the better days of Saab.
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>>Well, except for Audi, and you know THAT'S not far off

Unless you count the Allroad Quattro. There's no official EPA figures for the 4.2L V8 in it yet, but the same drivetrain in the Touareg is rated a paltry 14/18!

 

Yeah, but if you're going to get a Touareg you should wait for the V10 TDI.

 

Yes, with enough horsepower and torque to lug around your own personal tow truck behind the Touareg, so that you can easily transport the thing back to the VW dealership when it breaks down.

(glances at stack of receipts for $3200 worth of unscheduled repairs to the LAST VW TDI I owned... :evil: :evil: )

 

Another crossover trendy car with more to follow.

 

im my honest opinion, SAAB getting a car from Subaru is a major upgrade
for themselves especially considering the history of problems with the
previous Saab platforms.

not sure about the trailblazer though.

 

How about a 9-SUCK based on the Cavalier platform? Where does this end?