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Saab Concept Cars Before and After the Saab Bankruptcy (c. 2000–2023)

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  Saab was known for buildin’ some real-deal, no-nonsense badass cars, and truth be told, it still stings a bit that they went under. Saab always did things their own way, stubborn, clever, and a little weird in the best possible sense. Over the years they rolled out a whole mess of wild concept cars, both before and after the original bankruptcy. We’re talkin’ the Saab 9X Concept, the Aero-X, the 9-6, the 9-1, the 9-8X, heck, they even cooked up an all-wheel-drive Saab based on the Subaru Tribeca. And then there’s the Saab 9-4X, which barely made it out the gate before the lights went off for good. Now, here’s where things got interestin’ at least back when this piece was first written in 2023. A lotta folks didn’t realize that Saab’s DNA was still breathin’ over in China through NEVS . They were buildin’ the NEVS 9-3 , a modern spin on that long, proud bloodline runnin’ straight from the old Saab 99 and 900 all the way up through the classic 9-3 roots stretchin’ back to the lat...
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Subaru Legacy from ’89 all the way up to today!

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The Subaru Legacy,  they made versions before ’89, but I’m mostly talkin’ about the ones that came after ’89, the ones that actually carried the Legacy name. Those cars were, and still are, real popular over in the States. Subaru in general’s one of the few foreign brands Americans love right alongside their homegrown rides from GM, Ford, and the Jeep-Chrysler crowd. Now, that first-generation Subaru Legacy — I remember my big brother gettin’ picked up in one after he wiped out on his bike. I was about three years old, sittin’ on the luggage rack on Dad’s bike at the time. That Legacy felt mighty modern back then, and for years afterward I kept rememberin’ the whole thing like the car was brand-new even when I was about ten or twelve. Funny how memory plays tricks. My poor brother scraped himself up pretty good — even today his skin’s a little thinner in the face — but luckily we knew some folks livin’ close by who patched him up while we caught our breath. That first-gen Legacy ...
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