{"id":516874,"date":"2010-04-05T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/05\/saab-planning-xwd-equipped-9-5x-wagon\/"},"modified":"2010-04-05T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T23:31:00","slug":"saab-planning-xwd-equipped-9-5x-wagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/516874","title":{"rendered":"Saab planning XWD-equipped 9-5X wagon?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Spy Photos<\/a>, Performance<\/a>, Wagon<\/a>, Europe<\/a>, Saab<\/a>, Luxury<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"As you may have guessed by now, we’re very excited<\/a> over the prospect of a reinViggenated<\/strike> reinvigorated<\/em> Saab<\/a>. Our thinking is, now that Trollhattan is free of General Motors, it will get back to the business of making niche three- and five-door hatches coveted by post-grad Ivy League types with mega-potent turbos blowing into longitudinal, slanty I-4s spinning the front wheels. Even if our entire Saabian wish list isn’t fulfilled, a fully independent Saab can only result in better focused cars. For instance, the 9-7X SUV will stay dead and buried. <\/p>\n

Of course, even if the 9-7X was something of an abomination, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t Saabophiles out there that seek the all-weatherness of all-wheel drive combined with a lot of cargo hauling capability. While we suggest those people first seek out a Volvo C303<\/a>, Saab’s thinking different. Badly translated reports are fluttering that not only is Saab building a 9-5X (Saab chose to brand their AWD vehicles with XWD, or “Cross-Wheel Drive” – a fancy way of saying Haldex version 4.0<\/a>) that will presumably be a performance variant, but they’re also apparently set to build a XWD-equipped 9-5X SportCombi (station wagon) that will do battle with up-armored station wagons like the Audi Allroad and Volvo XC70.<\/p>\n

The 9-5X SportCombi will be separate from the apparently still forthcoming Saab 9-4X<\/a>, an actual SUV-looking CUV built on the same platform as the Cadillac SRX<\/a>. It looks as if the 9-4X will be the only new Saab product not built in Sweden. One more little tidbit: As Saab wrestles itself back to its former glory, they might just be dropping the hyphenated names. Meaning that the next 9-3 might actually be billed as the Saab 93, and that this whole time we’ve been talking about the new 95X. Time will tell. <\/p>\n

[Source: Autoweek.nl<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Saab planning XWD-equipped 9-5X wagon?<\/a> originally appeared on Autoblog<\/a> on Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Spy Photos, Performance, Wagon, Europe, Saab, Luxury As you may have guessed by now, we’re very excited over the prospect of a reinViggenated reinvigorated Saab. Our thinking is, now that Trollhattan is free of General Motors, it will get back to the business of making niche three- and five-door hatches coveted by post-grad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}