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Another SUV with Saab 2.0 Turbo under the hood

Beijing Auto BJ40

After first SUV with Saab “heart”, on the Chinese market appeared a new SUV – Beijing Auto BJ40 – with Saab 2.0 turbo with 204hp and 280nm under the hood. Baic the owner of the Beijng Auto brand, bought the rights to the Saab 2.0 turbo and Saab 2.3 turbo from GM in 2009, along with the rights to the platforms of the Saab 9-3 and first generation Saab 9-5.

Beijing with Saab engine

The Beijing Auto BJ40 was launched on the Chinese car market in December 2013, but powered by a lazy 2.4 liter four-cylinder petrol engine with 143hp and 217nm. However, during the development process Beijing Auto did experiment with the Saab 2.0 turbo, but couldn’t make it work at the time.

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Seen inside the test car. Someone scratched out ‘3’ and wrote a ‘0’ over it, making 2.0 from 2.3. This is interesting, as it could indicate that Beijing is also working on fitting the 250hp Saab 2.3 turbo in the BJ40, which would make it a seriously fast 4×4. MT for manual transmission.

Beijing Auto BJ40

Price for the BJ40 2.0T will start around 175.000 yuan (~28,214 US Dollar), debut is expected for the Chengdu Auto Show in September.

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Source: carnewschina

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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