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Saab’s Mini rivalling 9-2

Back to 2010, then Saab new owner, Spyker CEO Victor Muller, told CAR magazine of his desire to build a new Saab 9-2.

Muller has shown selected journalists, including CAR’s Gavin Green, his own hand-drawn sketch of the 9-2 he envisages – and these is  their interpretation of those drawings.

Their CGIs depict a modern take on Saab design, mixing some cues from the past but a healthy dose of modern attitude. Unfortunately, this idea is also backfired.

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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.

1 Comment

  • As I recall there were also talks (perhaps rumors of talks) about a 9-2 that was actually based of a platform shared with Mini. At one point a deal was inked with BMW to build a turbo 4. There was some significant optimism for a season.

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