If your SAAB is of recent vintage, it's actually a German design, not Swedish.
"If your SAAB is of recent vintage, it's actually a German design, not Swedish."
Mine is a 2000 9-5, which I think was Swedish.
The newer 9-3s I believe share a chassis with Opel, and is probably what you are thinking.
This chassis is used for the Chevy Malibu Maxx (funny looking wagon-like rear end). Probably a fairly good car.
But for the US they keep using outdated motors. Meanwhile Saabs have excellent turbos.
An interesting new car is the 9-3 Sport Combi; small station wagon with two high performance engines--gobs of low rpm turbo power.
Why can't they simply build these motors for the US vehicles? They now own 100% of Saab.