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November 22, 2008
Subaru based Saab strikes back!
Patent filed for DOA Tribeca-based Saab 9-6X
Source: AutoBlog.Com
by Dan Roth
It takes no stretch of the imagination to look at the freshened Subaru Tribeca and see a stillborn Saab 9-6x. The grille and the headlamps may be slightly different from what a Saab version of Subaru’s biggest crossover would wear, but if you park your Tribeca next to a 9-5, you’ll notice the resemblance immediately.
All the work had been done to morph the Tribeca into a Saab variant, and then General Motors decided to sell its stake in Fuji Heavy Industries, the parent company of Subaru, and so broke the ties that bound the two automakers.
The tidy little story doesn’t end there, though. Just this month a patent was filed for a Saab vehicle that can be nothing but the 9-6x that we all thought was dead. Why now? Well, the folks at TurboNines posit that we may yet see the Saabaru crossover for a couple of solid reasons.
Right now, Saab has the 9-7x, which is a variant of the Trailblazer. It’s in fact the best Trailblazer ever, but it’s headed for extinction when General Motors shutters its Moraine, OH plant. That leaves an opening in Saab’s lineup, and dealers would love to have something to sell.
Enter the 9-6x; all the work has been done, so it can be pulled off the shelf and pressed into service without the cost of development or even styling. Of course, it might just be that we’re talking ourselves into something, but the fact that the patent was just applied for makes us think that we could soon see a Saab 9-6x based on one of our favorite larger crossovers.
Source: AutoBlog.Com
by Dan Roth
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totally weird, even more then first saabaru
well, let’s hope that Saab will not ruin Tribeca while porting it, like they did to their first “saabaru”
Love the Subaru and the Tribeca, i have one, I HATE SAAB! i wish Saab didnt own some of Subaru and take all of subarus ideas, but hopefully it will fail like the Saabaru Impreza….wat bull… Saab should die.