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Car Forum / Saab Cars / March 2007Why the number 9?
I've wondered this for a while now. What's the signifigance to the number 9 in Saabs naming convention? All their cars seem to feature a number 9 in the title....900, 9000, 93, 95..... >I've wondered this for a while now. >What's the signifigance to the number 9 in Saabs naming convention? >All their cars seem to feature a number 9 in the title....900, 9000, 93, >95..... Originally: Because the first SAAB car design followed on from the SAAB 91 Safir training aircraft in their list of design projects, and as such became the SAAB 92. Later: It becomes a recognisable "tag" for a SAAB. Other makers do the same. All three-figure numbers with a middle "0" are trademarked by Peugeot, which is why Porsche were forced to re-label their 901..  SignatureAndy Breen ~ Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth Feng Shui: an ancient oriental art for extracting money from the gullible (Martin Sinclair) > Later: It becomes a recognisable "tag" for a SAAB. Other makers do the > same. All three-figure numbers with a middle "0" are trademarked by > Peugeot, which is why Porsche were forced to re-label their 901.. I know this is true, so it make you wonder how SAAB got to use 900 moniker for (x0x) for nearly 20 years. Paul 1989 900 Turbo S http://saab.go.dyndns.org/ >> Later: It becomes a recognisable "tag" for a SAAB. Other makers do the >> same. All three-figure numbers with a middle "0" are trademarked by >> Peugeot, which is why Porsche were forced to re-label their 901.. > >I know this is true, so it make you wonder how SAAB got to use 900 moniker >for (x0x) for nearly 20 years. Apologies - should have been "three figure numbers with a middle 0 /only/', as I gather Pug hadn't annexed numbers with a terminating 0 - I have no idea why, incidently. On thinking about it, the Pug-getting-all y0x numbers dosn't fit with Bristol marketing the 400-409 series, which must have overlapped with the Pug y0x series by the end. Maybe Pug were unwilling to offend a firm which had attack aeroplanes in easy reach. Come to think of it, that may explain the SAAB 900... SignatureAndy Breen ~ Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth "When I was young I used to scintillate now I only sin 'til ten past three" (Ogden Nash) >>> Later: It becomes a recognisable "tag" for a SAAB. Other makers do the >>> same. All three-figure numbers with a middle "0" are trademarked by [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > had attack aeroplanes in easy reach. Come to think of it, that may explain > the SAAB 900... Hehhehehehee! SignatureThe DervMan www.dervman.com > I've wondered this for a while now. > What's the signifigance to the number 9 in Saabs naming convention? > All their cars seem to feature a number 9 in the title....900, 9000, 93, > 95..... <switch on nerd mode> I understand that the first saab Car was labelled the 92 because the vehicle design which had made production prior to this ( a civilian aircraft) was designated 91 From then on, the model nos. grew by 1 92 92b 93 94 - think this was the design code for the Sonnet 1 (2 seater sportcar) 95 96 97- think this was the design code for the Sonnet 2 (sport coupe) 98 - design code for an updated 96 99 and then I guess they thought the no. 9 was so integral to the range that it was better to with 90, 900 and 9000 than to continue to 100 With the 9-3 and 9-5, the 3 indictes that it is a bmw 3series class vehicle and the 5 indicates bmw 5series > I've wondered this for a while now. > What's the signifigance to the number 9 in Saabs naming convention? > All their cars seem to feature a number 9 in the title....900, 9000, 93, > 95..... Saab numbered their models sequentially. So the Saab 91 was the "Safir" (link here: http://www.fcfk.com/safir/ ), the next thing on the design board was the Saab 92 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_92 ) Once they got into cars, they reserved the 2-digit 9x range for them. The 99 turned into the 900. By then marketing folks were in charge rather then engineers, so it got a bit wodgy and we ended up with 9-3 and 9-5 which have only vague meanings relative to the original naming scheme. >>I've wondered this for a while now. >>What's the signifigance to the number 9 in Saabs naming convention? [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > and 9-5 which have only vague meanings relative to the original naming > scheme. Yes, I do believe that the marketing people looked at the BMW models and said: This 9 competes with the 3 series so let's call it a 9-3. That one competes with the 5 series, so 9-5. If not intentional, what a huge coincidence, eh? Signature-Fred W > >>I've wondered this for a while now. > >>What's the signifigance to the number 9 in Saabs naming convention? [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > one competes with the 5 series, so 9-5. If not intentional, what a huge > coincidence, eh? The new naming 9-3 and 9-5 is a bit ugly IMO, it doesn't even match what is written on the cars, that's more like 9 with a smaller 3 or 5 hovering above, easily seen as 93 and 95, or perhaps it is 729 and 59049? Hence, total confusion. Added to that is that 900 and 9-3 models straddles between different shapes. > > >>I've wondered this for a while now. > > >>What's the signifigance to the number 9 in Saabs naming convention? [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > confusion. Added to that is that 900 and 9-3 models straddles between > different shapes. BTW, an exercise for all of you (not too difficult). Prove that 9 raised to an odd positive power will always have 9 as the last digit. >>>> I've wondered this for a while now. >>>> What's the signifigance to the number 9 in Saabs naming convention? [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > 59049? Hence, total confusion. Added to that is that 900 and 9-3 > models straddles between different shapes. Really interesting stuff guys. Thanks for all the replies. Particularly interesting what you said Johannes, about the 9-3 and 900. I have noticed that it's quite remarkably difficult to tell the difference between an early 9-3 and a late 900. Is it effectively the same car, but Saab just decided to re-badge it? >>>>>I've wondered this for a while now. >>>>>What's the signifigance to the number 9 in Saabs naming convention? [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > between an early 9-3 and a late 900. > Is it effectively the same car, but Saab just decided to re-badge it? There were a few other changes, but the sheet metal was essentially untouched. Here: http://www.saabnet.com/tsn/models/1999/ Signature-Fred W >>>> I've wondered this for a while now. >>>> What's the signifigance to the number 9 in Saabs naming convention? [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > confusion. Added to that is that 900 and 9-3 models straddles between > different shapes. Try typing "9" followed by "^" followed by "5" and you will get 9^5 in most news clients (I use Thunderbird), a bit more realistic than the 9-5 notification Signatureth > >>>> I've wondered this for a while now. > >>>> What's the signifigance to the number 9 in Saabs naming convention? [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > most news clients (I use Thunderbird), a bit more realistic than the 9-5 > notification In the days of mainframe computers, it was quite common to use large numbers for their naming. There were IBM/360, Univax 1100 and Unisys ES7000, all to be outdone the fictive HAL 9000 from the film '2001'. Possibly, some of the glamour of the computer industry (at the time) rubbed off on the naming of cars, such as my CSE 9000 :-) >>>>> I've wondered this for a while now. >>>>> What's the signifigance to the number 9 in Saabs naming convention? [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > most news clients (I use Thunderbird), a bit more realistic than the 9-5 > notification 9^5 (from Thunderbird) Signature-Fred W >>>>>> I've wondered this for a while now. >>>>>> What's the signifigance to the number 9 in Saabs naming convention? [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > (from Thunderbird) Sumbitch, it worked. It just showed the three characters when I was typing it in. Signature-Fred W <snip> >>> Try typing "9" followed by "^" followed by "5" and you will get 9^5 >>> in most news clients (I use Thunderbird), a bit more realistic than [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > :-) Signatureth
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