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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 13:48:25 +0200
From: "Henrik B." <saabnospamPAM_tdcadsl.dk>
Subject: Re: In What Year?..............


"Malt_Hound" <Malt_Houndnospamm*yahoo.com> skrev i en meddelelse news:gJqdnXmoZ7FKzl3fRVn-iwnospamphia.com... > I think your timeline is a little bit off, Paul. The 9000 facelift did > happen in '93, Nope, happened in september 1991. ;o)) Just you "yanks" that are a year behind. ;o)) > but my '92 9000T already had ABS, SRS, DI, ACC, so that was not when > these changes took place. I think these changes were already in the > Trollhattan pipeline before GM got financially (and otherwise) involved. Correct, as DI was introduced late 1988 on the 1989-models. ACC came out with the car i 1984. > The car became considerably prettier from the outside, but the rearward > vision from the driver's seat became somewhat of a problem. Safety was > obviously not the primary consideration of that facelift as SAAB designs > had always been in the past (beauty be damned). Wrong. The CS is a much safer car, than the old CC. The CS-body is reinforced, especially in sideway collisions. Saab-engineers where here in Denmark, back in 1987, when a 9000 was spilt in two, in an accident. I sent them the pics of the car. Cheers!

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