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1950 + 2013 = Saab 9-2 teardrop model
Report: Saab 9-2 plans proceeding, design influenced by brand's '50s teardrop models
by Jeremy Korzeniewski (RSS feed) on Feb 26th 2010 at 10:00AM
You wouldn't know it by looking at Saab's current automobiles, but once upon a time the Swedish marque was known for crafting almost impossibly rounded bodywork. Victor Muller, CEO of Spyker Cars, which just completed its acquisition of the Saab brand, plans to reintroduce such teardrop-shaped emotion back into the automaker's line with a new vehicle codenamed 92, or in more modern parlance, 9-2.
Don't expect to see the small, premium 9-2 before 2013 or so, when it would theoretically go up against machines like the Mini and Audi A1. According to Autocar, Saab would likely borrow a suitable set of underpinnings from GM's Opel division, as is the case with the new 2011 Saab 9-5.
If Saab is able to get this new entry-level model into production as planned, its inclusion would no doubt go a long way towards reaching Muller's stated goal of hitting 100,000 total sales per year for the newly acquired automaker. That's not too big a stretch considering that the brand sold 93,220 cars as recently as 2008. We wish him, along with the rest of those with a stake in Saab, lots of luck.
[Source: Autocar]
via autoblog.com
LOVE this look. A curvy Swedish model.
How'd ya like ta sell software to this guy?
Notes about the artist (from bio via Galleria Dieffe; translation to English):
Born in Pinerolo (Turin) in 1969, lives and works in Turin. He was trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Turin.
Fascinated by the stereotypes of the fashion system, the rituals, expectations and desires that surround this world, the artist reflects the psychological aspects that this entails, the need that causes us to seek “the habitat aesthetic” that best represents us, in a growing circuit in which each individual is likely to be the same group membership, as the same are the elements that form a family group. His work represents a sampling of possible aesthetic approvals.(…)
Coudal Partners - check it out!
via coudal.com
Jim Coudal and the guys really have a fine site here. I love everything they're doing. WOW, what great design, too.
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