{"id":520849,"date":"2010-04-08T17:16:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T21:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/?p=18505"},"modified":"2010-04-08T17:16:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T21:16:12","slug":"the-future-of-saab-to-draw-heavily-on-heritage-%e2%80%93-car-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/520849","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Saab to Draw Heavily on Heritage \u2013 Car News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saab management says its small car will be called 92, while the 9-3 might be renamed 900.<\/em><\/p>\n

GM wasn’t able to turn Saab into a success story, but Victor Muller, the new CEO of the recently established Saab-Spyker is optimistic about the brand’s future. (For those under rocks, Spyker recently purchased<\/a> the Swedish carmaker.) Muller promises to honor Saab\u2019s heritage in a future where new product is key.<\/p>\n

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Saab-Spyker is in the midst of a thorough review of Saab’s future plans, but Muller says he is pleased with the 2011 9-5<\/a>, which stylistically does a nice job hiding the fact that it\u2019s based on the GM Epsilon platform. The SportCombi wagon version of the 9-5, which is said to look stunning, is still some time away and will be launched in mid-2011. In April 2011, the 9-4X crossover<\/a> will be launched. It will be contract-manufactured by GM in the General’s Ramos Arizpe, Mexico, plant alongside the Cadillac SRX, with which it shares underpinnings.<\/p>\n

With ties that close, Muller must seek to keep the relationship between GM and Saab amicable, and he acknowledges that the American company has invested vast sums to bring Saab’s Trollh\u00e4ttan, Sweden, production site up to modern standards. But product development was painfully neglected. The 9-5 carried on for over 12 years; GM essentially skipped an entire product cycle.<\/p>\n

Keep Reading: The Future of Saab to Draw Heavily on Heritage – Car News<\/a><\/p>\n

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    Saab management says its small car will be called 92, while the 9-3 might be renamed 900. GM wasn’t able to turn Saab into a success story, but Victor Muller, the new CEO of the recently established Saab-Spyker is optimistic about the brand’s future. (For those under rocks, Spyker recently purchased the Swedish carmaker.) Muller […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6406,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520849","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\/6406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}