Dammit, now that Oldsmobile is gone the only way to have the same car rebadged across 5 nameplates is to include some oddball like Opel, Saab, Vauxhall or Holden.

lol excellent complaint

Further evidence that GM need to be taken behind the shed an put out of its misery. According to GM, its OK to slap a name associated with performance and technology on a glorified Chevy Suburban (the 9-7). Take a flagship platform and giving it a sophisticated engine (like the SAAB 2.3t), now who’d want to buy that???

Please GM, sell off SAAB while people can still remember the days before you raped the name.

I’m pretty sure if GM never bought Saab a lot of people wouldn’t even know about them….

The 9-7 has nothing to do with the Suburban.

Saab would be out of business and a footnote in history if GM had not bought it.

As I understand it, GM will not be building another variant of the Solstice/Sky for good reason…the factory where they are built does not have the capacity to build another variant. However,seeing as it was built as a design showcase, it is almost certain that the Aero X styling will be seen on the next gen 9-3 and 9-5, and other Saab’s as well.

The Saab roadster would sell like hotcakes. It’s vastly better looking then the Sky/Solstice, not even in the same league. No competition there.

Makes a lot sense since they don’t want their product to compete with each other. They already have 2 roasters. But if they made the Saab Roaster more luxurious and price it higher to compete with Z4 and etc.. it would have been a better move on their part.

big mistake. I agree with digitalzombie, this would have been in a price bracket a little above the other two roadsters, no cannobalization would have happened. It would have sold well and would have been nice to see that great looking car on the road.

Actually, I think GM is stupid for not building this. This would be a GREAT high-end priced car, one that would be of higher quality and _UNIQUE_ design than the Sky/Soltice versions. Just because it’s a 2 seater coupe doesn’t mean it will compete with it’s platform mates. Price it 10k over the Sky and give it base engine of a LS2 proportions and it’ll sell.

The only real problem is where to build it, considering that the current plant is running over capacity as it is.

Furthermore, the Kappa *PLATFORM* is a great platform, making this car would be no more of a rebadge than Nissan’s use of the FM platform for 1/3 of their cars. Using great platforms to make unique cars is SMART BUSINESS.

Saab has a lot of potential in making a sportscar like this…just the kind of 911/SL competitor that GM could use in its line-up..or where-ever else in the sportscar market it could go. This is a great looking car, and when GM, god forbid, designs a cool car, they should put it straight into production because they could use as many sales as they can get

I’m pretty sure if GM never bought Saab a lot of people wouldn’t even know about them….

Sarcasm is really hard to read so I will ask. Are you joking? Probably don’t remember the history or are not old enough to remember the 80’s 900.

The worse thing in Saabs history is the GM take over. How much can you dilute a brand only GM will know.

phhhh look what happened to cadillac

The mistake was the Saturn sky. They now have two very similar roadsters. They should have built one cheap roadster (solstice) for their “excitement” division and then built another greatly enhanced version for Saab, to compete against the Z4, Boxster, SLK, and TT maybe. They can’t seem to get brand differentiation correct can they?

Just how big do you whiners think the market for 2 seat spors cars is?

Why make the Sky???? And cadillac ain’t exactly the best of companies. Last time I check they had nothing special about them and find it hard to sell outside of America.

GM is really stupid!!! they could make a lot of money on a saab within the kappa architecture… i repeat REAL stupid

“The worse thing in Saabs history is the GM take over. How much can you dilute a brand only GM will know.” — Stuart

Agree 1000%

Instead of diluting Saab, they should have taken what Saab did best. FWD, turbo fours, and safety.

They should have used Saabs turbo fours all over their product line. Those motors were pretty great in the late 80s early 90s .

The Saab 9000 sedan was a great big highway cruiser that innovative and fast .

Today they are nothing more than rebaged Opels.

Ford did a better job with Volvo.

9-7x was based on Chevy TrailBlazer, not Suburban. And yes, GM did effectively ruin SAAB’s reputation. Come on, what’s up with that born from jets commercial? We all know where 9-7x came from, so the commercial should say “born from Chevy”! Jets or jet engineers had NOTHING to do with 9-7x.

I personally lost all respect for SAAB in last several years.

Agreed, GM has not been any help for Saab. If Toyota, VW or Ford (for example) had bought them years ago they’d be making better cars now for sure. Its a joke that the 9-5 has no replacement anytime soon, the the 9-3 is just a more expensive Vectra.

Saab is for cool people with european sensibilities who ski Mammoth Mountain or Breckenridge or Telluride. Saab should not be competing with Volvo but be more of a VW-Audi cross

Saab cannot have a RWD vehicle. They just cannot so it does not surprise me this never happend.

A Kappa Saab would be a failure due to it not being up to snuff on the safety front. Saab still has a rep for safety and GM as a whole does not (See Blazers, Dustbuster vans, Chevy Aveo, Cavalier, etc…)

Put another nail in Saabs coffin please. The brand hasn’t been right since the 80’s and has been bleeding money since GM took over. Nobody gives a crap about Saab and ESPECIALLY when they become just another hackjob GM product.

This car with the V6 they use with rear drive would have been a nice addition. Certainly more in keeping than that joke they have called the 9-7.