Comments on: Turbo X News: major market allocations

By: Ying

Ying — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:56:07 +0000

@jc7222,

Which country are you in jc? I had the same expereince in Manchester, UK. The staff don’t look like they want to be there.

Toyota and Lexus wins awards all the time for the dealership because their staff actually seem to care – they ring you up after a serivce to check if everythings to your satisfaction.

Saab Manchester can’t even be bothered to contact me to arrange a test drive of 9-3 I booked thorough SAAB UK’s main website. It’s a good thing I’m a SAAB fan, if I were a Audi/ BMW driver looking for an alternative and gets this treatment I’d never consider a SAAB again.

They should just sack the lot of them, close the dealership down and recruit some people who can actually do their job.

By: eggsngrits

eggsngrits — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:48:16 +0000

Is it possible that external issues are a factor here? In some locations insurance for a high-performance car will be very expensive,and in others, registering cars of certain displacement or output will be expensive.

Likewise, dealers in some markets (perhaps Spain?) are focused on luxury rather than performance.

By: Gunnar Heinrich

Gunnar Heinrich — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:26:25 +0000

Why so few for Australia?

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:04:56 +0000

Ditto on no information from my dealer in Edmonton (western Canada). The sales guy I spoke to doesn’t think we’ll even see one out here, but I suspect we should see at least one in each of the major cities – Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg. I’ll have to check with a more senior sales person there that I’ve jabbered with before to see if he knows any more than the young buck who brushed me off once he determined I was only interested in seeing one and not buying one that particular day.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:23:56 +0000

Still no info from my dealer in Western Canada – any word on pricing?

By: 93Aero

93Aero — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:11:02 +0000

@jc7222

Sorry you were discouraged by your dealer experience; my Saab dealer experience was actually one of the bigger reasons I ended up in a Saab.

It was great (again, just my experience) to go test drive a car and just be handed the keys & asked, “So you’ll be back in about a half hour then?” I LOATHE the normal dealer experience of having some idiot hound me like a lost puppy dog & prattle on about some nonsense while I’m trying to experience the car … I’m there to decide if I like the car, not see if the guy is capable of selling me on the car; and I found my visit to the Saab dealer a great breath of fresh air.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:23:02 +0000

Perhaps there’s less interest in the Turbo-X in Sweden because due to easy availability of ethanol to fuel the BioPower models?

By: Mr. Aero

Mr. Aero — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:18:23 +0000

@ ctm

i heared that 80 units of the turbo x have sold during the IAA to Germans. so theres 10 left?!?!?!

but your right saab has a lot of potential here in germany…

By: Kroum

Kroum — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:46:06 +0000

Good to see Canada getting 125 units, I’ll bet 100 or so of these will go to Ontario and Quebec – one hopefully will end up parked in my driveway.

By: ctm

ctm — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:35:38 +0000

90 for Germany? They hardly sell any Saab’s in Germany.