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No new 9-3 hatchback? Posted by Eric Iversen [Email] (#470) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Eric Iversen) on Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:06:29 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
This showed up in a Car Magazine interview with VM and JAJ. No mention of a hatchback for the new 9-3. Which is different from what the smoke signals have indicated. Which is disappointing.
Q. Any news on the next-generation Saab 9-3?
A. Work on the new 9-3 is still on schedule, and the first cars will roll down the Trollhatten production line in October 2012, though it could be built in China from 2013 too.
On the cards are saloon and estate versions of the new 9-3, as well as a convertible (which will definitely retain its fabric roof) and, potentially, a coupe. And the 9-3 will sit on Saab’s new Phoenix platform, which Jonsson admits can be lengthened and raised, to underpin the next 9-4X and 9-5 if the company doesn’t want to use revised versions of the existing GM architecture.
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