Comments on: 2011 Saab 9-5 Makes An Early Landing Pre-Frankfurt http://www.ridelust.com/2011-saab-9-5-makes-an-early-landing-pre-frankfurt/ - Motion + Mobility Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:26:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Marc Sketchler http://www.ridelust.com/2011-saab-9-5-makes-an-early-landing-pre-frankfurt/#comment-12152 Marc Sketchler Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:59:49 +0000 http://www.ridelust.com/?p=29915#comment-12152 Maybe it's not as quirky as the '86 900 hatchback your English professor drove, but I think it looks smart as hell. And you gotta at least admit that the little airplane in the centre stack is just <i>adorable</i>. Further, any HUD makes me happy in pants, even if it's in a '92 Cutlass Supreme or a Maxima of similar vintage. And any car that can make green dash lighting, formerly relegated to the most boring of dashboards (I'm looking at you, every car in the '90s), look as good as it does on those gauge needles is okay by me. It reminds me of the bridge on so many Star Trek enemy ships, very sci-fi and very organic. Maybe it’s not as quirky as the ’86 900 hatchback your English professor drove, but I think it looks smart as hell. And you gotta at least admit that the little airplane in the centre stack is just adorable.

Further, any HUD makes me happy in pants, even if it’s in a ’92 Cutlass Supreme or a Maxima of similar vintage. And any car that can make green dash lighting, formerly relegated to the most boring of dashboards (I’m looking at you, every car in the ’90s), look as good as it does on those gauge needles is okay by me. It reminds me of the bridge on so many Star Trek enemy ships, very sci-fi and very organic.

]]> By: Dustin May http://www.ridelust.com/2011-saab-9-5-makes-an-early-landing-pre-frankfurt/#comment-12150 Dustin May Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:34:25 +0000 http://www.ridelust.com/?p=29915#comment-12150 It looks good, but in a Euro-car sort of way. Not in the quriky Saab sort of way. The ultraconservative GM is still present in this one, which isn't surprising since this car would have been all designed and in final production checks when the sale to Koenigsegg was completed. Speaking of Koenigsegg, I sure hope they plan on letting Saab get back to it's roots and put this time in the abusive foster family of GM behind it. It looks good, but in a Euro-car sort of way. Not in the quriky Saab sort of way. The ultraconservative GM is still present in this one, which isn’t surprising since this car would have been all designed and in final production checks when the sale to Koenigsegg was completed.

Speaking of Koenigsegg, I sure hope they plan on letting Saab get back to it’s roots and put this time in the abusive foster family of GM behind it.

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