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Swedish Seoul

Possible 2007 Saab 9-5X.
BY TONY QUIROGA
May 2005

Saab's 9-7X sport-ute, built on the same platform as the Chevrolet TrailBlazer, is set to go on sale this month. The body-on-frame mid-size 9-7X will be the only Saab SUV in showrooms for a couple of years until the Swedish automaker's car-based unibody SUV, now dubbed the 9-5X, shows up in 2007. Some time back, word had it that the car-based sport-ute would be called the 9-6X and would be based on Subaru's B9 Tribeca, but it seems the Japanese platform was dismissed because it would have required too many modifications to adapt a diesel engine necessary for Europe (the 9-7X will only be sold in the U.S.). Therefore, Saab will build the 9-5X on the GM Theta platform that underpins the Saturn Vue and Chevrolet Equinox and Pontiac's upcoming Torrent, due this fall.

A four-cylinder turbo-diesel engine will come from Italian maker VM Motori for use in the Saab, Opel, and Vauxhall versions of the SUV, although plans for importing the diesel to the States seem unlikely. Don't be surprised if the 9-5X is built in a Daewoo plant in Korea.

Swedish sacrilege? Perhaps, but Saab is trying hard to stay competitive by cutting production, development, and currency costs.

http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp?section_id=29&article_id=9408

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