SAAB 900 (1979-1994) Special Editions

Golfhunter · Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 384 Location: Grenoble / France

I like it a lot personnaly .

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DaVinz · Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 123 Location: Holland

hard to say.... give me some more time Wink

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korzo · Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 3:09 pm Post subject:

Definitely not.
The rear part of the roof/cab is too ugly for me.
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orca · Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:22 pm Post subject:

I absolutely hate it Evil or Very Mad

For me, it is so full of design faults that there is simply nothing to like about it. The propeller wheel design is really cool, but I'd rather have them on an Opel Insignia.

Where to start?

The back end is too heavy, as is the front - it appears to hang over the wheels and already looks tired.

The nose/grille is just awful - that cut into the bonnet is nasty. The lines of the headlamps, grille, sub-grille and fog light enclosures have nothing that works together - it really looks like two cars grafted together or a battle of two designers who were appeased by putting in both designs.

What's that thing on the side behind the front wheels?

Why have those awful cheap body creases all over?

The "wraparound" windscreen is not - it looks very bad using colours pillars to disguise the actual shape. It is poor design to deploy that to give the appearance on something that is not there.

The overall shape of the car appears to point down at the nose, yet the roofline lifts up - it doesn't know which way it's going: ready for take-off like a Classic 900 or diving into the road like the older 9-5s.

The stick-on hockey stick is just appalling.

The design of the headlamps is mind-bogglingly bad.

The rear end is plain copied from Jaguar and simply does not hang together anywhere near as well.

... and that's before I start on the interior.

What on earth is that DaVinci man all about? That's the orientation of the controls in front of the gearstick. They call it the DaVinci man internally, since it looks like ... well, DaVinci's man. It is jarring and doesn't sit into what is otherwise a flowing design.

I actually like the steering wheel ... okay, one saving grace.

No! In all I hate this car. I'd rather have a "Dame Edna" and that says a lot since I think that was the worst design SAAB ever came out with ... until this one.

This car has me running to Opel Shocked

korzo · Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 7:10 am Post subject:

Orca: Opel? Nooo. Check the Buick Regal (the third brother). That looks best from them. There the inside is harmonic with the outside.
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orca · Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:14 am Post subject:

I guess the Buick Regal is the brother of the Opel Insignia and SAAB Turbo X? I really like the SAA Turbo X, but I have to say the Opel Inignia OPC (in gleaming white) is up there with the SAAB for me.

I really hope that the 9-3 line can continue with that look and just iron out some of the oddities in style that seem to have crept in with the 2008 model. I also hope that the 9-5 can be redesigned to come back in line with the 9-3 - why the two were split apart in terms of style, I will never know. They should be "brothers", with the 9-5 as the big brother.

Golfhunter · Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 384 Location: Grenoble / France

orca · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 7:01 pm Post subject:

No!

I hope it sells and gives SAAB a good start in life as a new company, but I hope that it is NOT carried on as a design bloodline.