Tempting to see if one of these could get a single vehicle approval

[sgould]

9-5 Sport Combi.  Unregistered "prototype" in auction in Sweden. Not suitable for road use - they say....

http://www.kvd.se/sv/auktion/saab/saab-9-5-turbo6-xwd-sportcombi-aero-authelladergpshud300hk-2012_554355.html


Now where did I put that bank loan........

[Geoff1951]

Current bid around £11.5k... you could get it through type approval as a personal import, like those hot Japanese motors popular a few years back...  just sort out the correct lightbulbs and speedo.   Or it's a one-off, like a kit-car...

Go on Will, you know you want to.

[sgould]

Still 2 weeks to go on the bidding.  I think it will go too high.  It was only on £2500 when I made the first post.....

[Geoff1951]

No harm in wishing!

[Paper Plane]

You can't tell me that a car like that wouldn't have sold if it was put into production.

steve

[MikeIOW]

Such a shame....nice car!

[Kev_Mc]

You can't tell me that a car like that wouldn't have sold if it was put into production.

steve

I'm finally in a position where I would likely be able to afford a new car. I always intended seriously looking at the 9-5 Combi when it came out. I think they would have sold loads of them. 

[JB]

I saw one at the motor expo in London a year and a half ago. All I can say is wow, I want one!

The 9-4X was very nice too I have to say, but it would have been the 9-5SC for me please.

Such a shame. 

[sgould]

Since I started this thread, the cars have been auctioned off. 

Unfortunately they went for high prices - far too high for me to consider.

Saabs United have a couple of links to the whereabouts of some of the cars. A whole tranch went to a dealer in the Czech Republic, and there's an RHD one in the Netherlands, I think.  Check www.saabsunited.com when it comes back up from maintenance - it seems to have been seriously delayed.

[JB]

Check www.saabsunited.com when it comes back up from maintenance - it seems to have been seriously delayed.

The site is back up again now.  Took a lot longer than they had planned.

[JB]

Get out the cheque book. Several cars have now been approved for road use.  Lucky bu**ers.

Who on here is going to be the first to spot one in the wild?

http://www.saabsunited.com/2013/03/four-9-5-ii-sportcombis-meeting-in-kiel-germany.html

[sgould]

Apart from the links above.  Here are two more from Saabs United.

http://www.saabsunited.com/2013/02/saab-9-5-estate-for-sale-in-the-netherlands.html

http://www.saabsunited.com/2013/01/where-did-the-auction-cars-end-up.html#more-46343


There was one RHD Sport Combi in the auction.  Where did that end up? It wasn't me.  It went for over £40k 

[MikeIOW]

Still sad these never made it to full production: that would almost certainly have been my next car!