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design team needs to be replaced.these nothings going on the sides and the back is screwed up.Saab & Gm has really dropped the ball.Does it even compare to the Astra?SAAB had a chance to really earn some young professionals this clearly miss the mark.If the final product looks like this either Saturn or VW will get my money.]]>Mar 3rd 2008 12:58PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/Mar 3rd 2008 1:00PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/Mar 3rd 2008 1:13PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/
http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/pic.php?imagenum=1&carnum=3337]]>Mar 3rd 2008 1:15PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/Mar 4th 2008 2:36PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/Mar 3rd 2008 1:20PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/Mar 3rd 2008 1:20PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/Mar 3rd 2008 1:25PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/
Clean, swedish, rational, practical, saabish and with personality... I couldn't expect this after the lame 9-4x!

I'd buy this one! :)]]>Mar 3rd 2008 1:26PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/Mar 3rd 2008 1:32PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/Mar 3rd 2008 1:42PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/
I like this, I really do. I wish the windshield rake was a little less dramatic (more Saab 99, less Acura NSX). The problem is this is a another pie-in-the-sky concept, from a company that's famous for flashy concepts and mundane production cars, for a brand whose newest product is from 2003 (9-3), whose flagship dates from 1998 (9-5), and whose premium product is a lame-duck rebadge (9-7x). By the time this reaches production, it'll be fighting for it's life against similar offerings from other makes--assuming GM doesn't do it's usual "the best competitor is the competitor in your own showroom" act and sell a Saturn or Chevy/Pontiac version as well.

Saab needed something to sell in 2005. It does not need concept and concept with nothing to show for it. ]]>Mar 3rd 2008 1:30PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/Mar 3rd 2008 1:36PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/
No.

Ditto here. The 9-7x sells ok _for a Saab_ but it's sales (400 units) are miserable; they were miserable last year when they sold 800. The 9-3 does outsell it (1100-1500 units/month), though, so I don't know where the heck you got that figure from.

The 9-7x was a waste of resources. Saab could (and should) have spent the money on the 9-5. Heck, they could have redressed a Saturn Vue (or Cadillac SRX) and it'd be a better fit. Some dimwit at GM saw that Saab was losing customers because people were buying SUVs instead of wagons. The problem is, they were buying Acura MDXs, BMW Xs, Mercedes MLs and Lexus RXs, and a slightly nicer Chevy-friggin-Trailblazer is _not_ going to staunch the bleeding, not against that kind of competition.

And reliable? Please. If you wanted reliable, you wouldn't have looked at a Saab in the first place. You'd have signed the papers on an MDX or RX350 and not even thought about Saab for a second.

Let's call a spade a spade: GM has no idea, and more importantly, no _intention_ of seriously fixing Saab. Which is unfortunate, because unlike Buick and Pontiac, Saab's perception wasn't completely in the toilet when this all started. It's the same cockup they made with Saturn, and from Saturn is now _barely_ recovering from (and still might not, if GM doesn't stop knifing Saturn on Chevy's behalf).]]>Mar 3rd 2008 4:16PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/Mar 3rd 2008 1:30PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/Mar 3rd 2008 1:33PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/Mar 3rd 2008 1:44PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/
if you ask me, only true size-wize competitor to Mini is Fiat 500. all other cars that try to be mini competition are really larger]]>Mar 3rd 2008 1:51PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/03/geneva-08-previe-saab-9-x-biohybrid-concept/Mar 3rd 2008 1:42PM