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The Turbo X Spectacular! Part III: Thrashing Saab’s Best
By Gunnar Heinrich with Photos by Kevin Kusina
I’VE been having a difficult time wrapping my head around the word “SportCombi” lately. Apparently, there’s just no room for the “station wagon” anymore in the world’s vehicular lexicon. Wind back the clock as many as fifteen years and you’d even find Volvo busy selling 850 “Sport wagons”.
Station wagon has too much the utilitarian ring to it, though, in marketability terms it still trumps earlier names like “depot hacks” and “woodies.”
When I arrived at Saab’s makeshift proving grounds in North Andover, there were two Turbo X models lined up alongside a winding track of little orange cones. One was a sedan fitted with an automatic (same as what I drove to the event), the other was the Turbo X SportCombi (wagon) also fitted with an auto shifter.
Wanting nothing to do with something that only the Brits really want and eco-minded former 9-7X drivers feel they need, I opted for a turn at the sedan’s helm each time, every time on the track. Little did I know that my best Turbo X experience would come later with a manually fitted wagon.
"The Car That Nice People Drive"
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