Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 20:15:53 GMT From: Johannes H Andersen <johsnospamfitter.com> Subject: Re: Possibly the end of Saab - In Trollhattan...
"ZweefÆ" wrote: > [...] > > They should give more attention to character, detail, and most of > all quality. The current 9-3 Sportsedan (what's in a name...) is to much > of a Audi A4 ripoff (is this flamebait? Ahhh, whatever..) and does not > stand out. I don't give a s**t if they build it in Germany from now on, > if they would have some real swedish Saab designers do the design, add a > gallon of quirkyness and make it bulletproof ;-) Yes, the 9-3SS has a 'safe' styling, not too different from the mainstream soap bar cars. There should at least have been a sleek hatchback version. But the days have gone where you could tell which car was arriving from around the corner, just by the sound of the engine... Then we always used to speculate how future cars would look like. No one imagined the tall MPV style that seem to perpetuate these days; almost any can that comes out nowadays will soon have an ugly MPV or 4x4 derivative, just wait...