totally agree Saabken, the front of the 9-3 'vert is terrific but the rear is too bulky and the lights have always been too large - a slimmer light might actually make the car look more squat at the rear - it looks jacked up otherwise. The '07 tailights improve the look slightly if you chose paint colour carefully the black light traim gets absorbed into the body.
Loving the look of the Air, but then I liked the Jaguar XJS buttresses too ;oops:
SaabKen said:
FWIW, I really don't like the current 9-3 CVT's butt and tailights
AC, agree this and the 9-xBH are defo in the TT space:cheesy: , not a serious contender for the A4 which I testdrove yesterday and is miles bigger in terms of interior legroom and width - very worried if the new 9-3 were to shrink as widely speculated, it will die against ever-larger A4 and C class:nono; .
AC, agree this and the 9-xBH are defo in the TT space:cheesy: , not a serious contender for the A4 which I testdrove yesterday and is miles bigger in terms of interior legroom and width - very worried if the new 9-3 were to shrink as widely speculated, it will die against ever-larger A4 and C class:nono; .
I think all they need to do is make it feel larger on the inside. The current gen 9-3 feels a little cramped, especially in the rear seats.
Make it a hatch, push the rear seats back 5 inches, give the front seats a few more inches of legroom.. The car can probably shrink a foot and still be capable of growing interior space. Who really fills their saab's trunk completely when all the rear seats are full? Make it smaller and have 40/20/40 split rear seats to allow it to open up really big. Make it a hatch so things can be stacked upward instead of simply deep-ways (?)
Very faithful to the 9-4x in fact - I think we'll see these tailights very soon on that model and setting the standard for future Saab rears. It'll be nice to be able to recognise a Saab in the dark again!
Wulf said:
The rear sure doesn't look like any other car on the road.
I agree the 9-3 could be better packaged, but in fact it is too small to achieve anything like 5 inches interior growth, even if it did, it will jus tlook too small to convince new-conquest buyers to even consider it - sales boost relies on converts who need to think they are getting value for money, not a smaller car!
Hatchback, if you must and a variant, but the wagon is preferred in UK, less so in Europe where saloon is king.
boon94 said:
I think all they need to do is make it feel larger on the inside. The current gen 9-3 feels a little cramped, especially in the rear seats.
Make it a hatch, push the rear seats back 5 inches, give the front seats a few more inches of legroom.. The car can probably shrink a foot and still be capable of growing interior space. Who really fills their saab's trunk completely when all the rear seats are full? Make it smaller and have 40/20/40 split rear seats to allow it to open up really big. Make it a hatch so things can be stacked upward instead of simply deep-ways (?)
Very faithful to the 9-4x in fact - I think we'll see these tailights very soon on that model and setting the standard for future Saab rears. It'll be nice to be able to recognise a Saab in the dark again!
Very faithful to the 9-4x in fact - I think we'll see these tailights very soon on that model and setting the standard for future Saab rears. It'll be nice to be able to recognise a Saab in the dark again!
Not to mention the smoked-taillight goodness of the Saabs from the 90's, I'll never understand why they decided to lose that look after the GM takeover.
With all the lousy spelling and Christ knows what I am totally lost.
It is probably best like that .. who are these loonies
Or maybe there is something I should be smoking ... Never :nono;
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