Looks good now all they need to do is make it rwd and they will have an awesome car.

Saab is dead. Waste of money.

Concentrate on your core products guys, put a fork in this loser. And while you’re at it, take Hummer, Pontiac and Buick with ya.

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Looks like the light at the end of the tunnel for Saab- styling-wise.

You will get AWD in 2009 on Eps 2!

Again the drop Hummer crowd. Why would GM drop it’s most profitable per vehicle division? No sense.

Whoops, they listed it as AWD for 2008!!

yes the new saabs are looking much better
they ought to remake a hatchback and go back to their roots. a 900 revamp maybe? that would be cool

GM should drop Saab, but Saab should stay alive. They are unique and people will want them, GM is the only thing that is preventing them from being in audi territory. the new styling is nice, but as always it will be offered from GM with lack-luster quality, poor chassis, and poor engines. GM is going to have to do some radical restructuring to get respect.

I will so buy this car.
All a Saab needs is to be reliable.
The current 9-3 design is awesome.

GM is the only reason that Saab still exists – but they are also Saab’s worst enemy when it comes to innovation – everything has been warmed over GM product (remember the last 900 based on obsolete Vauxhall/Opel Cavalier running-gear?)

Saab needs to make a bigger statement than it does now engineering wise – not fluffy PR crap about next year’s turn-signal styling. Aluminum bodies, Hybrid-Electric powertrains and Audi quality will make Saab a meaningful marque again.

Should GM continue bestowing Saab with rebadged Bravadas (Yes, that’s exactly what it is) and Imprezas and the doddering old (is it 10 years now?) 9-5 – and they’d deserve to have Saab die.

bepsf– with ya right up til the “Audi quality” lol … I hope you dont mean build quality.

before fixing the looks of the car they need to do something about the car itself.

What’s wrong with the car itself? It’s quite nice, except its pricing.
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Epsilon is a good platform. Epsilon 2 is going to blow the doors off a lot of cars. An AWD Aura, RWD G6, and AWD 9-3 are going to surprise a lot of people.

I’m pulling for Saab but overall quality needs to improve before I’ll seriously consider buying one. Fighter-jet looks and high performance don’t mean much if you’ve got a hangar queen. If they can kill the electrical and computer gremlins and keep everything else, then Saab will pull out of its tailspin.

BTW, from which ‘jet’ was the 9-7x born? Did a GMC Envoy have a midnight rondezvous with an Airbus 380?

BAMF–

Yeah, I meant Audi build-quality, which is widely acknowledged to be superior to that of even Mercedes these days.

If you’ve ever sat inside a Saab 9-3 lately and felt the cheap plastics and pushed up on the maplights in the roof and felt the headliner push up – then get back into an Audi which has a solid feel and quality textured plastics, you’d understand what I mean. 

Sadly Saabs are truly for rich people who doesn’t care about quality as much as being unique. Frankly I’d rather have a Suzuki SX4 than a 9-2x.

bepsf– I drive an Audi A8… Yeah the materials are fantastic and its a really well designed, beautiful (truly) car. But the build quality sucks. **** is breaking left and right and its expensive as **** to fix. Thats why I laughed at what you said.

Wow, does anyone actually CARE about Saab anymore??? They’ve LOST money every single year that GM has had ownership in them. Why sink even more effort into them only to have the same outcome?

Face it, Saab has zero recognition among the big boys (Mercedes, BMW, Lexus, Audi, Acura) and when I see $19,xxx blow out sales just to move them, then something is severely wrong. A 10 year old 9-5 doesn’t help either. Blunders like the 9-7x Trailblazer (Which was a pile of crap to begin with, now it’s just a blinged out pile of crap) and the Saabaru 9-preza only bring the brand down further (If that’s even possible).

Put a fork in them. You’d have a better chance of turning Suzuki into a high end luxury brand than this gussied up Chevrolet beat with a tire iron brand.

Saab should be Euro only. Here in the states, they are a shell of there former self and a waste of resources from a corporation with very little.