SAAB 9-3 Sportcombi 2004 test drive-2008 station wagon

Three wishes

In Scandinavia live mumm-troll, Carlson, Niels, traveling with wild geese, and other magical characters. Some are endowed with the ability to fulfill desires ...
 
They say that Swedish cars are also able to. For example, the new SAAB-9-3 TrollHetten station wagon. Then listen: here are my three desires.
 
I want to stand out.
As you wish, the owner! To begin with, in your hands the first SAAB station wagon after a long break. Of course, except for the older brother, the 9-5 Wesgon model.
 
The prefix sport is confirmed by a short rear overhang, narrowed rear windows, a roof without relings. A brave and beautiful design move large white LED lights, logically completing the roof line. Family values \u200b\u200bare not forgotten: Combi 9-3 True SAAB. From a characteristic grille of the radiator to some lines borrowed by designers from the long -standing model 99 turbo.
 
However, you can be proud not only by appearance, but also with excellent streamlines: the aerodynamic resistance coefficient CC \u003d 0.33. In addition, this is the first car in the Swedish family to have lifting forces on both axles are zero.
 
The developers laid a lot of efforts to calm the air flows not only around, but also inside the machine. Computer programs helped to reduce the expensive time in the aerodynamic pipe. In virtual reality, they even watched the movement of air in the engine compartment (for better engine cooling) and the cabin. Even the shape of the lower back of the rear suspension was calculated for better streamlines and so that dirt does not stick to the disk.
Many twists are hidden from the eyes. More than half of the details are stamped from high -strength steel, and the hood, the fifth door and a beam of the rear bumper are made of aluminum. By the way, the bamers hold a blow up to 8 km/h. The boxes behind the front chipper are designed for collisions up to 15 km/h. After the conflict, it is not difficult to change them, but expensive body parts will remain untouched.
 
Indeed, there are enough advantages. But I still have two desires. So, I order
 
Maximum amenities.
Please enjoy
Convenient seats with many adjustments, and electric motor are everywhere built -in, except perhaps a lumbar support. They carefully hug the body, absolutely without constraining movements as in a home chair. And the passenger is not deprived of exactly the same number of adjustments. It remains only to fit the steering wheel in height and in the longitudinal plane. By the way, depending on the configuration in the helm, you can find buttons, control of the information and audio system, the phone, and the automatic box Sentronik.
 
Sports of combi, like other representatives of the brand, are strong in small things. So that in difficult situations, electronics recognizes them by turning shoes, intensive braking, etc. The driver was less distracted, the ComSense function will hold another information message or a call that came to the built-in phone for a couple of seconds. For the same purpose, the developers also provided for the nightlight of the instrument lighting. The dials are muffled, only a speedometer shines in the dark.
 
A split rear seat can be folded or opened in it for long -meters. For modifications, the liner and the ARC offer the front chair with a folding back to the salon will fit something up to 2.65 m long.
 
Saab honors his aviation past and unobtrusively reminds him of him. In the sport of combi, the handle on the hatch in the floor of the trunk is made in the form of an aircraft. Here is a niche for a small leaf, which will be additionally fixed with a net.
 
Satisfied. Now the last, most important desire. Delive up
 
Unforgettable impressions.
You will receive them, because under you a station wagon in an aerial version with an automatic six -speed box and a 2.8 liter engine with a capacity of 250 liters. With. On even Swedish roads, this car resembles a high -speed train with its behavior. The car goes like rails, demonstrating the remarkable smoothness of the course. Clearly prescribes turns, bringing pleasure to the driver and not nervous passengers in vain. One of the components of such refined controllability, the rear -sealing suspension Rexs.
 
If you have crossed a little, the ESP Plus stabilization system will correct the error. You will start to slow down intensively in the bend, the CBC device that distributes the brake forces for each wheel will take up the case.
 
Amazing: a new aluminum engine with a system of gas distribution phase, a mitsubishi turbocharger with a double snail, and an intermediate cooling of air is already pulling from 1,500 rpm. At this mark, the six gives out 90% of the maximum torque. With a leisurely driving, the machine jumps to the next gear, not allowing the tachometer to reach the mark even to the mark of 2500.
 
It is a pity, there was no more desires left, otherwise I would ask to temporarily cancel the speed restrictions. Until the permitted 110 km/h, the new six dispersed the car in the blink of a turbine, even did not even have time to scream. Only alarmed stabilization system blinked a light on the panel. Compared to the mechanical six -a -way, which sins fuzzy inclusions, the machine does its work quickly and almost imperceptibly.
 
V6 engine V6 of the lineup. Below are four-cylinder engines: 1.8 liter gasoline atmospheric, three 2-liter units with different boost pressure (150210 hp) and two 1.9 liter turbodiesels with two and four valves per cylinder (120 and 150 l. .). Curious: in the form of an option for the most powerful 210-horsepower gasoline four, an automatic machine with a formula of 5+2 is offered. Between the second and third, as well as the third and fourth steps, two intermediate ones are built -in. Half renections allow you to win the treasured seconds in acceleration in Kik-Daun mode.
 
No matter how disappointing, the desires are over. More precisely, the possibilities of making them have run out. I gave the keys and once again looked around the SAAB-9-3 Sport of Combi. In Europe, the cheapest station wagon from Trollhatten in the configuration will cost almost 30 thousand dollars, and the conversation about the air will begin with 42.5 thousand. For how many of them they will be sold in Russia, it is easy to imagine.
 
It is a pity that desires often do not coincide with opportunities.
 
Maxim Sachkov
 
 
 

 

 
 

Source: The magazine "Driving"