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OK, I’ve got a Subaru WRX to test drive for a month, but check out this guy’s test car!!
Lucky sod.
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Saab Turbo X pricing for Spain has been released, with the lineup costing as follows:
The two options there are electric sunroof and the Bose entertainment system with navigation and voice recognition, etc.
Thanks Eduard!
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In some disturbing news from Spain, EduSaab also sent in the sales numbers for January. Spain took over from Germany as Saab’s fourth biggest market a year or so ago. The news for January, wasn’t particularly encouraging, however.
Saab sold just 267 vehicles in Spain in January 2008, which was around 41% down on the year before.
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Saab Australia once had an incentive campaign where they were giving away a portable SatNav unit with appropriate models covered by the campaign (can’t remember the specifics).
I remember thinking it sounded a little cheap-ish at the time, until i thought about it some more. The factory vs aftermarket SatNav argument is a good one and makes for an entertaining read.
Michael Karesh at TrueDelta covers the issues quite nicely here: Do built-in navigation systems make sense?
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Thats about 100.000 kronors more than in Sweden.. WTF
From the Karesh article: “The disadvantages aren’t as clear, but could easily outweigh the disadvantages.” Boy, I’m really confused now, and I was confused enough before I read the article.
I know which I prefere. I have a tomtom which I can take from car to car, it has the latest european maps which cost me less than £40. total cost so far £200, differant cars used in - 6. I even to it to Sweden the time I flew and used it in the hire car. Gary has the inbuilt version with 2006 maps. There is an upgrade but it is roughly £400. I can get 3 more up-to-date tomtoms for that. Everyone has their choices, I know mine.
why are not the turbo-x wheels on the turbo-x?
I’d say he’s an employee or such and this is a pre-production model for evaluation and road testing. The wheels, other than being the right size, shouldn’t make too much of a difference.
He has snow tires on the car as the wheel/tire combo on the TurboX is not compatible with winter driving conditions for those of us who has anything that actually resembles winter.
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/saab-sonett-roadster-confirmed
Maybe this is old news, but I thougt I might share it anyway. It’s a forum with a picture of the 2008 SAAB Sonett.