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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

I really liked my NG900. If I recall my reading correctly it was still mostly a Saab. When they moved away from hatchbacks was the point that they became 100% a badge engineered Opel.

This is correct.

The NG900 (94-98) and NG9-3 (99-02) were good cars and still mostly Saab, despite that in Europe they call them GM900/GM9-3 (NG was for New Generation as they were referred to in the USA). I owned one of each and they were great cars and while they did share some GM/Opel parts/platform they were mostly engineered by Saab.

Starting with the 9-3SS/SC in 2003-on they were all GM with and Ecotech engine (SS = sports sedan/SC = sportcombi wagon), basically badge engineered Opels with much less modified by Saab themselves than in the past. Still reliable (my 07 9-3 was more or less a good car) but much more bland and got surprisingly poor gas mileage.

The 9-5 was mostly Saab until 2009. There are a few of the GM/Buick based 2010 9-5s in the USA but at this point they are basically unicorns.

The 9-7 and the 9-2..well we'd prefer just to forget those ever existed. LOL.