2009 Saab 9-5 Griffin Edition - details for Sweden
I covered this in snippets last night, but have just received some more information about the 2009 Saab 9-5. Bottom Line: If you live in Sweden and want a 260hp Saab 9-5 - get in quick.
Please bear in mind that this is just for the Swedish market at the moment and may not be the case for other markets, but one of the headlines for 2009 is that the 260hp engine variant, and the Aero badge, are not options in Sweden for 2009. If you want a Saab 9-5 Aero with a 260hp engine, it looks like you’ll have to sift through 2008 model stocks
The Saab 9-5 will only be available in a special “Griffin Edition” and will come in two levels of trim only - Linear and Vector (with a sports variant available). The details I’ve received so far are as follows:
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First week of November (week 45) Saab will start to manufacture an “enhanced” version of the Saab 9-5. It will be named Griffin.
The Griffin model has gone through a few careful design updates and it will have additional standard
equipment.
The Saab 9-5 will be available in two different versions, Linear Griffin and Vector Griffin. The Griffin models will be open for order 1st of October. And will replace all existing 9-5 models.
Exterior changes:
* Aero rear bumper including spoiler.
* The finish on the metallic frames on the headlight grill will be more like the 9-3 (not so shiny)
* New contrasting seams on handbrake and gear stick
* SPA (parking sensors standard)
* Front foglights standard
* Linear Griffin will have tinted metallic inserts on doors etc.
* On Griffin Vector Bi-xenon is standard, rain sensor, ALU63 rim (Aero MY08).
You canʼt order anymore Aeros, no 2.3t biopower as an Aero model, and there’s no 260hp engine. The following engine options are available for both the Linear and Vector trim levels.
2.0t (150hp)
2.0t BioPower (180hp)
2.3t BioPOwer (210hp)
1.9 TiD (150hp)
1.9 TiD HP (175hp)
Prices will range from 239,900 skr for the 2.0t Linear Griffin sedan and top out at 296,900 skr for the 1.9 TiD HP SportCombi. The full range and prices are as follows. Click to enlarge:
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The seat you see is the new standard seat for vector griffin, itʼs available in black with beige accent, black with grey accent and beige with black accent.
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Those seats look hawt.
I second the seats comment. Maybe they’re saving all the 160bhp 2.3T Aero variants for a last hurrah in North America? The “9-5 Swade Edition”?
You know a weird thing I noticed with the U.S.-spec 9-5? There are only two models available for 2008, both with the 2.3T engine: the “2.3T” and the Aero, but if you want the ventilated seats option (which I really really wanted but didn’t come in my wife’s CPO 9-5 we just bought, unfortunately) you can’t have them in the Aero. Maybe the sport seats that come in the Aero don’t have the perforated leather available? You’d think that the highest trim level would be the one with the option, if it’s only one or the other.
I like the wheels. The spoke lines look … how shall I say … twisted.
“if you want the ventilated seats option (which I really really wanted but didn’t come in my wife’s CPO 9-5 we just bought, unfortunately) you can’t have them in the Aero.”
2008 U.S. Market 9-5s were available to be ordered with eight different style seats:
2.3T: Black or Parchment, Ventilated Black or Parchment, Semi-Aniline Black or Parchment
Aero: Black w/ Parchment Inserts, Parchment w/ Black Inserts, Ventilated Black or Parchment, Semi-Aniline Black or Parchment
The SaabUSA website doesn’t always allow you to select all the available choices when building your own 9-5.
Those wheels are nice. I think they’re a variation on the “turbine” wheels of the concepts, with twisted blades evocative of a turbine. I really liked these accessory wheels which where similar Saab sold years ago.
Peter: thanks for the explanation. That’s (the Saab USA vehicle configurator) where I saw that the ventilated seats weren’t apparently available in Aero trim.
The price list for MY09 in The Netherlands shows the 260hp 9-5 Aero is still available. That is kind of odd they aren’t offering it in Sweden anymore. It just doesn’t make sense..
I am curious to see how the new metallic trim around the headlights will look and I probably will try to get some to put on my new ‘06 9-5. Hirsch already offered something similar but are a bit pricey at €500.
Gripen, if you see a smoke beige 9-5 Aero SC roaming the streets in the LA area this weekend, it is probably me. I’ll be picking her up this Saturday.
It even has the vented seats. 
I’ll keep an eye out for you, Wulf. You don’t live in SoCal anymore though do you? Are you driving it back across the country (I believe you’re in Michigan, right?)? I like that smoke beige color. Congrats. 9-5 SCs really stand-out due to their rarity in these parts. You’re making me jealous about the ventilated seats. Enjoy!
I third that seat comment! I just wish Saab offered that “satin chrome” look around the headlights from the start, they look more upmarket and not so tacky as the shiny chrome on today’s 9-5. It looks like they are preparing to shut down production of the 9-5 soon, and I can’t help but feel a bit sentimental. Don’t get me wrong, it is WAY overdue, but nonetheless, the 9-5 is one heck of a car.
Maybe Aero is not selling in Sweden almost every 9-5 is biopower in sweden…
The 9-5, as stated, sure is one heck of a car.. And all news for MY09 is great for making a great car greater. The 9-5 is just around the corner and the current trooper is making it´s last apperance in showrooms. Rüsselsheim is about to start production of the NG9-5 and this means one not so great thing… Production in Trollhattan will take a nosedive. Production of the 9-3 Convertible will surely be located home to Sweden, but the volumes are to small to fill the gap in 9-5 production.. How many people will loose their jobs? Or has GM a nice little plan for this?
How long will the current 9-5 be in production?
The Trollhättan plant has already been planned to go from two shifts to one from newyears (if I remember correctly)
Woho return of the Griffin! I’d buy it immediately if I had the money, looks awesome.
And this limiting of the 9-5 range must mean there’s a new model on the way…
@ Gripen,
You’re correct I don’t live in SoCal anymore. I always wanted to do a cross country trip by car so that’s why I bought a 9-5 in California and drive it back to Michigan. Why buy a car at your local dealer when there is (well, was…) European Delivery and California (or any other state) Delivery available.
Nothing better than a 3,000 mile drive home.
Wulf: that drive should be very comfortable in a 9-5 wagon with the ventilated seats and heated seats (depending on the situation). Throw a couple of caffeinated drinks in the chilled glovebox and you have quite a comfy trip.
What route do you plan to take? I recently drove (on a family vacation) out Interstate 15 through Vegas, then through the top corner of Arizona, then into Utah, then onto Utah 9 (through Zion National Park), and then up Utah Scenic Byway 12 all the way to catch Interstate 70 and back down to Moab, but if you were to stay on 70 that goes to Denver and the direction you’re intending to take. If you ask Google Maps for a route from L.A. to Detroit it has you take roughly this route (without the scenic detour though) rather than follow the general route of the old Route 66.
Utah Scenic Byway 12 was absolutely amazing and several car magazines have named it one of the top-10 drives in America (if you take this route note when you’re in Dixie National Forest how much Disneyland’s Big Thunder Mountain Railway ride looks exactly like this - Disney’s Imagineers patterned the ride’s scenery after Bryce Canyon National Park). Have a good camera (and lots of time for lots of stopping) ready if you go that route! Enjoy.
To bad the 9-5:s metallic frames around the headlights still look like someone threw up over the car.
IMHO it was absolutly the worst possible “lets-try-and-make-something-new-and-what-the-young-kids-call-hawt-so-we-can-sell-old-stuff-while-we-havn’t-decided-on-a-new-design” move Saab could make..
The old 9-5:s look better..
GM’s US employee pricing website shows a 2009 Saab 9-5 Griffin.
$42,000 for the sedan, $43,270 for SportCombi.
Those new (higher) US prices seem to have prepared the marketing for the new 9-5. They also put the US prices just about in line with the Canadian prices over the past few years (in the mid 40s to around C$50K, and the Cdn $ is hovering around 80 cents US. I’m not used to driving behind current 9-5s (because I drive an 07 and find myself in front of other cars), but we followed a sedan in traffic for several blocks around town this week. It looks very contemporary and anyone picking up a Griffin is not going to feel left behind even when the new one comes out; it will be a completely different car–platform, drive-train, interior, and body work–for a new market, especially in the USA. The many TS regulars who buy and drive SAABs that are 10 to 20 years old are testimony to staying power of the vehicles. The SC is indeed the real “looker” compared to the sedan, but some of us prefer the security of a locked trunk for extended travels.