Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 17:18:04 -0400 From: "Tex" <texnospamm101.org> Subject: Re: The C900 hatch to make a comeback!
"Paul Halliday" <pjghnospamyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:BEA9494C.13E19%pjghnospamyonder.co.uk... > in article T8-dnQYf5tHUsx7fRVn-2Qnospamast.com, Tex at texnospamm101.org > wrote > on 12/05/2005 11:22: > > I see where you were coming from now. You are an optimist ... I try to remain so. World has enough pessimists anyway. ;-) > I'm not sure where you're from Tex, Sometimes I'm not sure myself. ;-) > but in the UK, our perceptions of the > 9-2X were very favourable. Certainly the Subaru crowd liked it and the > SAAB > people found a lot of interest in the offering of AWD on the sporty range > from our beloved marque. I actually will agree with you here. It's a great AWD car. I recently had the chance to run one through its paces at an advanced driver training track. It performed really well (almost as well as the 9-3s and 9-5s). But despite its Saab-ifcations, it still did not feel like a true Saab. > What I do fear is that the reborn 900 hatchback will be a shared venture > between Subaru and SAAB and be offered (again) in lesser spec for the SAAB > market to protect the integrity of the Impreza in the Subaru market. This is a reasonable fear given the 9-2x debacle. If indeed there is a Saab/Subaru connection, let's hope that it does not extend beyond the base platform/chassis. In my view, this would be a reasonable/tolerable level of base component sharing. > Yup! Also, the article pitches the car into the Audi S3 section of the > market. So, do we think that this car is the replacement for the hurried > out > 9-2X? From what I gather, yes. - tex
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