If Saab survives long enough, it plans on developing three new vehicles which China’s Youngman Auto will build in China, including a 9-6X midsize crossover SUV. But, as it turns out, a 9-6X already exists… at the museum in Trollhättan. Auto Motor und Sport reports that six years after Saab did the hard work of re-badging a Subaru Tribeca, the firm has brought the prototype out of storage to show… I don’t know, what might have happened had GM kept its stake in Fuji Heavy Industries? The good news is that the Tribeca almost makes more sense as a Saab. In fact, it almost makes you wonder why Subaru didn’t just buy Saab, since it basically stole the Swedish brand’s college-town-lefty market niche. The bad news: Saab’s forthcoming made-in-China 9-6X probably won’t be as good as this cynical GM-era rebadge. Oh well, perhaps this six-year-old reminder of Saab’s extended decline will help the faithful get over their terminally ill Swedish patient…
Rebadging a WRX and smoothing off the rough edges? Good.
This? Bad.
I miss the vagina on the front.
It looks like they kept the uterus & fallopian tubes motif for the center console though.
You think I could get this and a letter certifying it meets all applicable Federal standards if I offered to pay off one of Saab’s suppliers?
Just once, I wish Farrago would log in to give this beast a nickname.
Actually, what I was wondering is when would TTAC’s saab deathwatch coverage get longer than GM. It looks as if there were 260 GM deathwatch editorials. At the rate ed and bertel pump out saab coverage, we’ll be there by the of september….
If the headlights and taillights look familiar, it’s because they were used for the Tribeca’s emergency facelift after the aeronautics-inspired fascia of the original B9 Tribeca totally flopped. I guess they figured if the Saab wouldn’t make it to market, might as well use them.
A company that has stopped building cars and has an almost 300 day supply on hand, should not have the right to stay in business
The 9-7x was more Saab than this child of a lost in translation overnight lay over.
For goodness sake, it doesn’t even have a console mounted ignition switch.
Now I know Saab is doomed.
That vehicle looks far better as a Saab than it did as a Subaru.
Yes, I think its very handsome too.
Evil Evil, Kill Kill Kill!
In times like these a little grim humor can’t miss its target.
That’s – after all – what I like about TTAC and why I still come visiting from time to time.
Nonetheless, Mr. Niedermeyer, you shouldn’t miss sitting in a real SAAB to find out about what is a SAAB as opposed to a SAABaroo. It’s about seats, sure, and about half a dozen other things you always wanted to know about SAABs – (but, I guess, were afraid to ask).