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Bertone Novanta – Saab 9-5 Concept by Bertone and SKF

The Novanta was designed to celebrate the 90th birthday of Bertone.

After the concept car “Filo”, it is again a prototype, showing the possibilities of the “drive-by-wire”-technology. Based on a Saab drivetrain, the Novanta has one door on the left side, the passenger’s side has two doors. The rear lights, aligned with the exhausts, can only be seen, when lit.

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Most concepts look futuristic but there are some styling elements that we can still find in the Saab 9-4X and second generation Saab 9-5 today. Most obvious is the canopy-styled roof with the black A-pillars. A similar design can be found on the Saab 9X concept that was introduced in 2001. And this is not a coincidence. The Saab 9X was designed by Saab’s Advanced Design studio and final assembly of the show car was at Bertone in Italy.

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The 2008 Saab 9-X BioHybrid and Saab 9-4X concept show even more similarities with the thick and prominent C-pillar and blacked-out A-pillars.

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The front of the Novanta has the Saab-shaped center grill, the familiar Griffin logo together with headlights that appear to be LED strips. Definitely Saab-inspired and a similar appearance as the Saab 9-5.

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Goran Aničić
the authorGoran Aničić
For over 15 years, Goran Aničić has been passionately focused on Saab automobiles and everything related to them. His initial encounter with Saab cars took place back in 2003 when the first Saab 9-3 and sedan version were introduced. At that moment, he was captivated by the car's Scandinavian design logic and top-notch engineering, and everything that followed stemmed from that first encounter. Later on, through his work at the editorial team of the Serbian automotive magazines "Autostart" and later "AutoBild," he had the opportunity to engage more closely with Saab vehicles. In 2008, he tested the latest Saab cars of that time, such as the Saab 9-3 TTiD Aero and Saab 9-3 Turbo X. In 2010, as the sole blogger from the region, he participated in the Saab 9-5ng presentation in Trollhättan, Sweden. Alongside journalists from around the world, he got a firsthand experience of the pinnacle of technological offerings from Saab at that time. Currently, Goran owns two Saabs: a 2008 Saab 9-3 Vector Sportcombi with a manual transmission, and a Saab 9-3 Aero Griffin Sport Sedan from the last generation, which rolled off the production line in Trollhättan in December 2011.

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