Wow... you make Saab sound like a really lousy car. I have never driven one before, but a 9-3 looks good, and I have heard good things about the light turbo employed in these Saab cars.

It's obvious you've never driven a Saab. The mid-range torque of Saab is incredible, making them incredulously easy to overtake in city traffic. They're far from perfect cars (confusing cockpit and console design, perhaps a little unreliable in tropics), but they stand out from the crowd because they're unique. You'd buy an Alfa or a Saab if you don't want a Mercedes/BMW/Audi. What would the world be if these little marques that dared to be different all disappeared? A world of yuppies where you had no choice but to drive the big brands like everyone else.

In terms of design, you obviously have an eye for Volvo. But there are many others who'd prefer the handsome cutting of a Saab. A simple tweak of the ECU gives you a crazy grin across the face, making nearly 100 horses available with a simple Stage 2 or Stage 3 upgrade and a new exhaust. You don't get that with many cars.

Just before GM announced the demise of Saab, I wrote an entry in my blog (http://www.nelsontan.com/blog/2009/11/whats-saab-with-that.html) about how nice Saabs were. I've no issues about you not liking Saabs, but please do more homework about why people like Saabs before condemning the car. Like you said, it's all about marketing and GM sucked at that. It's more an issue of lousy marketing from GMs part than lousy cars from Scandinavia. Now go drive a Saab and see what the magic is all about, before they disappear from the motoring scene forever.

Only IDIOTIC AND BRAINLESS people buy SAAB. Like my neighbour who likes at Blk 822 Sims Avenue,#02-820. He thinks he is very "cool". Too bad.....SUCKER!

What's your problem Ricencocoa?

No matter how lousy the Saab is, the fact is that its a premium marque with a big price tag.

Attacking your neighbour here to the extent of listing his address only makes you a keyboard hero with sour grape syndrome.

jialat !!

tanyachua88.....saab is a LOUSY CAR PERIOD!.....what PREMIUM MARQUE you talking about.....eh, hello! fyi i am in very good terms with my neighbour, so what about posting his address, we like to poke each other....cannot meh?

Well...as an avid fan of fighter jets (first) and cars (second), I'd like to correct you on the jets part of your argument. No, not everyone would want (or afford) a high maintenance fighter like an F-14D Tomcat or an

sorry my bad, grippen it is. BUT the main point of us consumers is that we always dream of our poster heros or the top trump heros, a Saab aircraft while I admit is good is never on any fighter pilots wet dream. Blackbirds, Eagles, Fighting Falcons and Tomcats tend to feature more in their minds. Whether a pilot cares to admit is or not. Cost is secondary in this matter.

Saab the automotive arm has never been a subsidiary of its aviation arm in a long long while. But its marketeers seem to think it makes a stronger marketing point.

Regards.

While you're entitled to your opinion, I should point out a couple of things.

Firstly, the facts. Spyker is not Scandinavian. They're Dutch. I think you're confusing them with Koenigsegg, which is Swedish and another company linked with the purchase of Saab.

Secondly, Saabs have character. If you know anything about cars, you know that they are not exactly a car for the common man, and are more suited to people who like to go off the beaten path, instead of the typical Merc/Beemer.

The reason they are where they are now is due to the hopeless mismanagement of parent company GM, who left the brand to rot with just the two models with no replacement as GM imploded spectacularly with their excesses. The so-called lack of brand awareness you talk about is entirely GM's fault.

Not that long ago, Saab was a brand with enough street cred to rival the likes of Volvo. Going by their latest 9-5, the absolutely deserve to live, at the hands of someone else who actually knows how to love and respect an automotive brand with more heritage than some Japanese brand invented in the late 1980s.