MotorWeek review of 9-7x on tv -- god bless my Tivo

Anyone else see this? I know most of you aren't 9-7x fans, but I have my Directv Tivo programmed to record anything with SAAB in the title or description. It caught a nice review of the 9-7x on 8/14, 5 am, on our local channel 49 (Akron,Cleveland area PBS). All of the action shots made it look pretty good, and MotorWeek had nothing but good remarks to make about it.

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saabyurk
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Autoweek gave it a good review too.

Reply to
Dan

Maybe...but why only a lame 4-speed automatic??? Hardly very progressive not to mention inefficient.

And if being an SUV didn't itself fly in the face of Saab to begin with, they had to include a V8. A Saab with a V8??? It would have been just fine with the V6. And as I understand it, the V6 is actually a bit more refined than the V8.

I've always felt that if Saab were to do an SUV it should look back into its history for inspiration...as in Scania. Perhaps they could have made an SUV in that vein...kind of a neo-industrial look and feel. Now that would have been interesting and original!

- tex

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Tex

Tex,

That would have been the ticket, a Neo-Industrial / Scania themed SUV, now that would have "lifted off" as far as historical accounts go.

- Ryan

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Saab Guy

We get these US TV films about wildest police chases. Mostly very entertaining to watch. What puzzles me, however, is that the villains mostly use SUVs or trucks whereas the police use large floppy sedan cars. Hence it doesn't take long for the villain to decide to flee over fields or private property land. The police always follow suit like bloodhounds, though handicapped by their floppy cars. But they nevertheless hang on as much as possible, often successful because the villain makes a silly mistake and get stuck. But why does the police not use SUVs?

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Johannes

Interesting perspective. However, you could argue the reverse as well. If the police drive big and slow SUVs, criminals will simply switch to getting chased in faster sports cars or even motorcycles. There is no such as a perfect chasing vehicle (all vehicles have their "achilles heel"). As you probably noticed on the show, the police use their unlimited resources (helicopters and other police vehicles also in pursuit) to chase and stop the suspect. They also, to a certain degree bank on criminals eventually making a dumb mistake.

BTW, the police in the US do use SUVs, but to a much less extent than cars. And the police cars themselves are almost always fitted with heavier duty equipment than stock vehicles.

- tex

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Tex

In some places they do, but it's no improvement...

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MH

He he...I had an encounter with an unmarked SUV one morning....I passed him doing about 85 and he decided to get on my rear very close and blast his lights and sirens... I let the Viggen turbo spool up and watched him get smaller and smaller in my rearview mirror. I wasn't going to stick around and find out if it was a real cop or not. You wanna do traffic enforcement...get a marked vehicle.

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WitchDr

What other Saab clips have you caught on your Tivo?

SG

Reply to
Saab Guy

I have two others on the history of SAAB. I'm not at home right now, so I can't check the titles. The latest one, however, was done pretty recently and has Bud Clark of J&B Imports narrating a lot of it, and talking about how fast today's SAABs are. I think it includes the 9-3. An extremely positive history of SAAB.

The other was similar, but was done maybe late 80s, and ended with an overly optimistic view of the future under GM.

I also have one of SAAB as a maker of deadly, world-class fighter aircraft, some beautiful shots of their jets. I didn't know that their earlier jets (the "barrel"?) in the 60s were used in actual combat by the UN, very successfully.

I need to get a DVD burner though. I have no way to get these off the Tivo! :-)

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saabyurk

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