"Souped-Up All-Black Saab Turbo X Sedan Is Rare, Cool, Quirky " Review on the Turbo-x from Bloomberg.com

Jason Harper of Bloomberg.com speaks highly of the Saab's latest and greatest. Here are some highlights from the review:

Turbo X -- the coolest Saab I've ever driven, am I damning it with faint praise? After all, Swedish cars are known for their safety, idiosyncratic designs and ... did I mention safety?

It's the first of the 9-3s available with Saab's new all-wheel-drive system and a punchier turbo engine. And it's a heck of a branding exercise, too. Saab has pulled a page from Porsche's playbook, releasing a limited edition that pays homage to a past model (in Saab's case, the 1985 900 SPG, which also came in all-black and had a turbo engine). It suggests where the brand wants to go

Though the Saab is a modest car, it zings nicely along the open curving freeways and ably handles back-country two-lane roads.

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Comments

[blackturbo]

I made some weird, loud, grunt type noise in reaction to negative review of the seats. Uhh, really? They seemed OK to me. Not viggen good, but pretty good.

[Kmarie]

Deffinitely not Viggen good. We all come to expect a better quality seat from Saab performance models. Maybe we are asking too much but, it seems that until GM came along we always got exactly what we wanted from Saab. When I spoke with Steve Shannon last week he had stated that Saab enthusiasts hold a level of expectation that is near impossible to reach. I took that to heart and have thought about it for the last week and I think I finally decided that I disagree.