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Posted by Randy Sorenson (more from Randy Sorenson) on Mon, 15 Jul 2002 12:49:29
In Reply to: , Kok Chen, Sat, 17 Dec 1988 12:00:00 

Car & Driver (C&D) magazine (July 2002, p. 35) and European Car (EC) 
magazine (August 2002, pp. 82-86) report on their experiences with the 
9x prototype, and report that it seems like the 9x going to be 
produced. Dan Neil, of C&D, pronounced, 'It's a done deal,' adding the 
9x project 'has developed an air of inevitability.'

EC magazine's Tim McKinney was more tentative, but both writers 
described the car's design in positive terms. The interior they 
characterized as 'gorgeous,' 'a tour de force of future-think 
ergonomics' (C&D), and 'like being in the cockpit of a fighter jet with 
your long-bill fishing cap pulled down' (EC). As for the exterior, Ola 
Granlund, the 9x project leader, quoted Michael Mauer, Saab's executive 
director of design: '[He] said the three most important things when 
designing a car are proportions, proportions and proportions. If you 
get the proportions right, the car can be very minimalistic and still be 
striking. If you keep it simple and clean, you can emphasize certain 
elements and give the car brand image.... [T]here is no ornament or 
fancy lines, and we think for the long term that makes the car 
attractive.'

Sounds good to me.
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