Greg: I hear you, but I prefer to believe that Saab’s designers are having greater notice and impact within the GM organization. Certainly, the AeroX was heard loud and clear.

TuuSar is on the money. The reason that plug-ins are a big deal is two fold:

1.Electric power plants have much better thermal efficiency than do cars, and even coal creates clean energy within a modernized plant. Plus the emissions can be controled, regulated and monitored much more easily at the power plants than for millions of cars.
2. Even though the CO2 emissions are sifted to the plant, in many cases the shift itself is a huge benefit — Los Angeles, Rome, Mexico City could all use a huge dose of emissions shifting!

I like it. And I think that the Saab version will be even better.

Plus, you don’t think that Chevy will really build this thing, do you? It will be changed 80 times before 2010 or 2012 or whenever.

On Swedens largest TV sport program they today showed some clips from there archive of Erik Carlsson during the Safari Rally 1966. It’s all in Swedish but there are some nice Saab images and sounds to enjoy. For those who knows swedish it’s funny to hear him talk, there are some natural Swedish “rasism” in there that was perfectly natural during that time.

http://svt.se/svt/play/video.jsp?a=733604

http://www.boston.com/cars/news/art…_drive_in_2007/

Ten to drive in 2007
Car makers take different routes to build more excitement into the new year

By Royal Ford | January 7, 2007

We’ve put our 2006 favorite drives in the rearview mirror, so let’s look at 10 cars we can’t wait to drive this year.

A Saab yet to be revealed
All I know is that sometime this summer, I’m going to Sweden to drive a Saab with a new all-wheel-drive system. Saab has long held a place in the hearts of New Englanders, and General Motors let the brand drift in the wind for too long. Coming back to these shores with a new and advanced all-wheel-drive system could turn things around, just in time.

BTW I think this Chevy is reVOLTing.

Just like in Psycho Dave’s post, 9-X is gorgeous, the Nomad is hideous…

You are correct. The raised headlights, dropped center grille, spoiler vents in a triangular shape.

Even the rear looks similiar with the offset narrow tail lights in the same color as the Aero-X.

This is like reverse design utilization where the Saab design is being used elsewhere.

I’m not sure this is going to go over well. It kind of makes the Aero-X design kind of boilerplate now.

I do mind that the Volt’s appearance is a complete rip-off of the Aero X.