It shows amount of air mass burned during combustion. In other words it shows the torque of the engine. I guess it´s electrical and not really a boost gauge like in older petrol turbos. Just like trionic 7/8 does. At least that´s what owner´s manual says about the gauge.

I really start liking the sound of engine more and more, though from the outside it sounds, like someone said here, a milk truck!

And by the way Snow silver is so good colour! Gotta love that new look of 9-3..
I´m still impressed by this car!

Saab/GM…get these engines certified and youd(heck even me)sell 5K/year here easy.

So they´ve changed TID´s exhaust also, because before M08 it didn´t have dual outlet.
Here´s a pic of it, is it similar? http://img153.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ttid007rr4.jpg

Gripen, I live in Finland. We had “No Badge” option checked on out previus 9-3 also. I really like to keep it clean, though there´s nothing wrong to have badges.

“I’m sure it’ll be more fun than any other car you’ve ever had.”

That´s very much correct. It´s more fun than ANY of the cars I´ve ever driven. At least that how I feel about it now..

We´re going for a skiing trip next week and I´m hoping to get some nice pics of the landscape and new SC as well. I´ll put some words down with the pics and send them to Swade.

But for now what I can say about it? Hmmm.. Well, mileage is impressive. It´s got now 550km on the clock and there´s still more than half of tank diesel left. SID shows average of 5.8l/100km. That´s winterdriving with parkheater on most of the time, though mainly driven on a highway. I´d say it´s not bad for a powerful car with automatic transmission and weighting 1645kg itself.

Tranny/engine setup works fine. Feels like there´s always maximum in use if needed. Turbo needle shoots to the red zone in a blink of an eye if you press the pedal just a bit more. And “Sport” option makes shifting quicker, and it´ll hold shorter gear longer to achieve quicker response should you want to accelerate quickly.
Manual shifting works also fine. If you use it like you´d use your manual tranny, it´s perfect. You can hold the gear for cornering (and playing on a snow – to put the rear on a slide).

Go and drive one if you have possibility! And Saab, please make the XWD available with TTiD. That would turn this beast into the next level…

http://img262.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ttid014ab3rb9.jpg

And many thanks to Swade for keeping the love affair with Saab going in the Saabless country where I’m living at the moment.

PS There is a no badge option in the US – it consists of dental floss and elbow grease. Works quite nicely.

humpf

BMW offered the “no badge” option in the 1980s and charged extra for it! That is what gave Bob Sinclair (former President of Saab USA) to have the U.S.-bound SPGs “debadged”.

I’m afraid with the introduction of XWD it’s going to make Saab buyers who didn’t opt for that option feel like they’re missing something when for over 60 years FWD was perfectly fine. This car looks great Marko, and I’m sure it’ll be more fun than any other car you’ve ever had. Congrats!