Date: 7 May 2005 03:42:34 -0700 From: "Paul Halliday" <pjghnospamyonder.co.uk> Subject: Re: The C900 hatch to make a comeback!
Tex wrote: > http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/56431/900_turbo_set_to_be_reborn.html > > and: http://www.autoblog.com/entry/1234000493042484/ Not a load lugger? Then it's hardly the successor to the C900 then, is it? The combi/coupe design was sheer genius ... it was a hatchback AND it was a load lugger. The best analysis I've seen of this news is over on SAAB Central forum board: <http://www.nospam.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49648> "It's not going to have any connection to the C900 except for some intellectualy famished advertising man's utterly lame attempt to scrape a bit of credibility out of Saab's heritage to make up for a total lack of quality ideas. People wouldn't buy it if it looked like one (except a few nutters on here), they wouldn't tolerate a transmission that is so fragile that it requires a bit of skill to keep going, it wouldn't handle like a C900 because suspension standards have changed, it won't carry a load like a C900 (they say so themselves), it won't be totally (and unprofitably) over-engineered, it'll be replacing a car based on a Subaru, so just how the hell do these marketing prats think anyone is going to believe it will be "a spiritual successor to the C900"?"
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