Back in the late 1980's and early 1990's SAAB was a great car maker. A car maker that made these funny looking cars that ran like great and had Turbo's 2 boot. Then GM bought SAAB and design change after design change SAAB became a me too brand with bland styling and badge engineering at it's worst. GM working with Subaru introduced the SAAB 9-2 and then rebadged an SUV calling it the 9-4 (i think.) Anyways GM has been trying to kill SAAB for some reason.
And now SAAB has the 9-3x Crossover. Okay so it's not an SUV and so it's not that ugly. But does SAAB really need a CUV? Maybe considering it's dealer network. SAAB is the orphan child for GM as some of SAAB dealers are not in the GM family but usually are paired off with other European Imports or on it's own. Since CUV's are the big thing and SAAB doesn't offer them while it's competition on the same lot does it may need one. But some newer SAAB dealers are mixed with Caddy and Hummer. So those dealers have the CUV/SUV market covered. I'm mixed about this new SAAB. I prefer the world to drive CUV's to SUV's but not a SAAB CUV. Plus this looks like a warmed over Subaru Forrester. Nothing new to see here. Move along.
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Back in the late 1980's and early 1990's SAAB was a great car maker. A car maker that made these funny looking cars that ran like great and had Turbo's 2 boot. Then GM bought SAAB and design change after design change SAAB became a me too brand with bland styling and badge engineering at it's worst. GM working with Subaru introduced the SAAB 9-2 and then rebadged an SUV calling it the 9-4 (i think.) Anyways GM has been trying to kill SAAB for some reason. 
And now SAAB has the 9-3x Crossover. Okay so it's not an SUV and so it's not that ugly. But does SAAB really need a CUV? Maybe considering it's dealer network. SAAB is the orphan child for GM as some of SAAB dealers are not in the GM family but usually are paired off with other European Imports or on it's own. Since CUV's are the big thing and SAAB doesn't offer them while it's competition on the same lot does it may need one. But some newer SAAB dealers are mixed with Caddy and Hummer. So those dealers have the CUV/SUV market covered. I'm mixed about this new SAAB. I prefer the world to drive CUV's to SUV's but not a SAAB CUV. Plus this looks like a warmed over Subaru Forrester. Nothing new to see here. Move along.
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