Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 21:45:42 GMT From: Paul Halliday <pjghnospamyonder.co.uk> Subject: Re: The C900 hatch to make a comeback!
in article BpqdnfoyzZIgLOHfRVn-qAnospamast.com, Tex at texnospamm101.org wrote on 07/05/2005 13:17: >> 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> > > "Best analysis"??? More like standard snobbist opining/whining. Or an opinionated rant? Take a look in the mirror, eh? >> "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, > I consider myself lucky to not be a snobbist/purist like this ding dong. It > would be utterly dumb for Saab to build the exact same car they built in > 1993. That certainly was not what he was saying. Given the recent propensity for the SAAB badge to be placed onto slightly re-worked existing GM models is perhaps why the author of that thread was incensed by the original article. I know that platform sharing is no new thing to SAAB and that buying in significant parts of the overall engineering is no new thing to SAAB. The freedom to develop and re-work that engineering is something SAAB have done very well through the majority of the history of the marque. >> it won't be totally (and unprofitably) over-engineered, > > Why should Saab not make money? Maybe re-read that one? SAAB should make money. That would be great. So would engineering autonomy. > This second comment from the original autoexpress article actually means > that Saab technology will underpin the Subaru, not the reverse. Right .. Okay. What do SAAB offer Subaru? How much SAAB went into the 9-2? My bet is that it will be a shared next generation Impreza that will be marketed as both SAAB (in less power form) and Subaru. Paul 1989 900 Turbo S http://saab.go.dyndns.org/
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