Back in December 2009, China’s Beijing Auto (BAIC) purchased intellectual property for Saab’s 9-5 and 9-3 sedans from General Motors, who no longer wanted the Swedish marque. The $200 million purchase will bear its first fruit in the form of an own brand sedan by the end of this year, it was revealed earlier.
At the Shanghai show, BAIC wheeled out this T60 concept car, which shows extensively reworked bodywork over the ageing Saab platform. The T60, which looks very modern, resembles different models from different angles, so it’s a good car to play “spot the inspiration” with.
This shortcut to a new car will go on sale early next year in China. Some might dismiss it as new skin over old bones, but the previous gen Saab 9-5 was sold in Europe only until recently and is Euro NCAP proven – so this should be a safer car than many homegrown models.
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whoah! very aggressive looking car!
chinese volvo with saab platform. the chinese r very good at copy n match =)
Yes, so were the Japanese when they started. :-)
truly good looking
wow, looks good !
The T60 (name and looks recall Volvo’s) is decent enough.
Saab’s old 9-5 platform seems like a bargain for the Chinese. It would be interesting to see whether BAIC’s version would outlive the struggling, debt-laden, Spyker-owned Saab New 9-5.
I see Volvo, BMW……
I guess the Chinese are doing whatever they can to fast-track new models. It’s a very competitive market.
cool……
Man,this is truly a striking and very aggressive looking ride.And also considering that the BAIC group took over the 9-3 & 9-5 intellectual rights for the concept and production of this model in less than 2 years,certainly impressive.
It’s based on Saab,so it will be safe and i’m pretty sure the spec sheet will be equally as good as it’s Swedish brother.
China is a hugely competitive and largest auto market in the world,so this should do very well over there.And it won’t be long until they wheel an “extended wheelbase” version when they go full scale production,which is immensely popular in China right now amongst luxury car buyers.
I’m impressed,a good effort.Cheers.
LOL, when I saw the front, first thing that ran through my mind was that Mazda had launched a future long wheelbased 929…..
Outside of china, this would be a difficult car to sell, as SAABs have kindda lost its way among the sea of very competent competitors. But in China, as long as you have a recognizable brand, anything goes.
park this in front of IKEA China and it would literally sell itself.
bought the intellectual property, then modify and produce something, thats how people do serious business. enuf said.
Optima rims :D
But seriously, it looks good. If things go this rate, once Koreans finish grabbing the spotlight from the Japanese they’ll have to fight to defend it from the Chinese. Awesome stuff.
nice!!!
Sorry but the front end looks to familiar with Mercedes F-800 concept and the recent A class concept.. good efford zero originality.
a BIT LIKE bmw…HUHUH