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Saab 9-5 – A reliable, dependable member of the family…

Saab 9-5 by Nordic

Here’s another nice Saab story that comes to us from Kansas City.  The owner of a three Saab cars Matt Keenan wrote a nice article “One man’s treasure is another’s trash collector” about his experience with Saab cars .

In one of the passages, he says: “A couple months ago I said goodbye to an old friend. She was a reliable, dependable member of the family for eight years — our 2004 blue sedan Saab, model 9-5. She was a Swede; a country that gave also gave us Pippi Longstocking, Ikea and ABBA. Over the years we owned three Saabs.

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It also had personality. Saabs sport a unique hood medallion: a red lion wearing a crown that declares to the world, “This car is cool.” When my sons drove it, they personalized it, adorning it with a sticker that says, “Radiohead” — a band unfamiliar to me but one that probably gets heavy rotation on those satellite radio stations like Jam On, Alt Nation and Lithium.

Be sure to read the rest of the article.

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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