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Spotted!
« on: 05 April 2012, 01:45:58 AM »
To interrupt the tumbleweeds ... I saw this yesterday:


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Re: Spotted!
« Reply #1 on: 05 April 2012, 09:20:16 AM »
I don't think I've seen one outside of publicity photographs. I saw a 9-2 when we were in Virginia two years ago.  And I've sat in a 9-3X and 9-4X.
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Re: Spotted!
« Reply #2 on: 24 June 2013, 09:47:46 AM »
I don't think they look too bad for a big 4x4. What were they based on?

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Re: Spotted!
« Reply #3 on: 26 June 2013, 10:38:09 PM »
No idea, but it's a bit of a bloated if you ask me!   Reminds me of most American wagons I see over there.....yuk!   

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Re: Spotted!
« Reply #4 on: 27 June 2013, 02:55:41 PM »
I think it was one of those sat outside the newly defunct SAAB / Geely dealership in Bahrain, when I paid them a visit.

It didn't look too inspiring I have to say.  :-\

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Re: Spotted!
« Reply #5 on: 27 June 2013, 06:28:48 PM »
It'a thinly disguised Chevrolet.
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Re: Spotted!
« Reply #6 on: 28 June 2013, 09:14:10 AM »
It'a thinly disguised Chevrolet.

...Yes that figures!

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Re: Spotted!
« Reply #7 on: 28 June 2013, 10:38:42 AM »
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Re: Spotted!
« Reply #8 on: 28 June 2013, 03:12:05 PM »
This one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_TrailBlazer

Ow, that hurts!
Will, you could've warned us to keep one eye closed.  At least with the original photo you can focus firmly on the Saab badge and ignore the rest of it.

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Re: Spotted!
« Reply #9 on: 29 June 2013, 12:36:22 PM »
Heheh!

Very well put!  :)

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Re: Spotted!
« Reply #10 on: 08 July 2013, 11:18:58 PM »
Saw one of these today - at first glance (from the side) I thought it was a 9-7x!  :-[  :o


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Re: Spotted!
« Reply #11 on: 21 October 2013, 06:15:44 PM »
Did a double take this afternoon, seeing a big chunky 4x4 with a Saab grille in a fairly out of the way place here in Austria! I'm assuming it was one of these. It was one of those "blimey, what was that?" moments!  :-\

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Re: Spotted!
« Reply #12 on: 21 October 2013, 06:26:19 PM »
There were a few sold, and some more were moved into the marketplace at the final bankruptcy auctions earlier this year.  There were some NG9-5 estates as well.  A garage in the Czech Republic bought a lot.

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Re: Spotted!
« Reply #13 on: 21 October 2013, 07:36:40 PM »
There were a few sold, and some more were moved into the marketplace at the final bankruptcy auctions earlier this year. 

They still had 9-7x in stock then? Last ones were built in 2008 for the 2009 model year as they closed the factory down in America...

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Re: Spotted!
« Reply #14 on: 21 October 2013, 07:41:11 PM »
I was referring to the 9-5 & 9-4
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