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"Aero" versus "Viggen" Re: 9-5 VIGGEN is coming!!!!!!
Posted by Rafe [Email] (more from Rafe) on Tue, 8 Oct 2002 22:24:07
In Reply to: 9-5 VIGGEN is coming!!!!!!, marc, Tue, 8 Oct 2002 17:15:06
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I haven't asked my mechanic, so I may be wrong, but I understood that "Viggen" is a name that was created for the US market to identify the 9^3 Aero as something other than "Aero," on the theory that the "Aero" cachet should be reserved for the biggest car, but only in the US market. This has something to do with the long-standing tradition of Orange (now Norcross) execs wanting the US cars to be called something "different." You will recall the same was true ten years or so ago when the 9000 Aero was not called "Aero" in the US until the 93-1/2 model, and the 900 Aero was NEVER called an Aero here ("SPG"). Before that there was also some wacky branding on the 99/90 though the details are lost in the fog of memory.
In other words, "Viggen" is just another, US-specific, word for "Aero."
Anyone better informed, by all means educate me!
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Posts in this Thread:
- 9-5 VIGGEN is coming!!!!!!, marc, Tue, 8 Oct 2002 17:15:06
- Re: 9-5 VIGGEN is coming!!!!!!, NSK, Tue, 8 Oct 2002 22:53:23
- "Aero" versus "Viggen" Re: 9-5 VIGGEN is coming!!!!!!, Rafe, Tue, 8 Oct 2002 22:24:07 <-- Viewing This Message
- Vapor ware, Lou, Tue, 8 Oct 2002 19:26:01
- Last discussion of this topic ..., J, Tue, 8 Oct 2002 18:59:29
- Re: 9-5 VIGGEN is coming!!!!!!, marc, Tue, 8 Oct 2002 18:42:15
- Re: 9-5 VIGGEN is coming!!!!!!, murphwiz, Tue, 8 Oct 2002 18:33:05
- 9-5 Viggen has my attention..., Dr. Eric Strauss, Tue, 8 Oct 2002 18:24:26
- I love this site!, Dr. Eric Strauss, Tue, 8 Oct 2002 20:21:39
- You're the only person I know who uses the two phrases, J, Tue, 8 Oct 2002 18:42:47
- I think "King of the Right Lane" to Volvo is like ..., J, Tue, 8 Oct 2002 18:31:05
- First heroin, now sedatives, what next?!? :-) n/m, J, Tue, 8 Oct 2002 18:29:43
- Re: Your mechanic ???????????, Andrew
, Tue, 8 Oct 2002 17:53:06
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