[IAMCANADIAN]

I was looking at the saab 9-3's in europe, they offer less powerful engines but at a lower price. I was thinking, saab should offer a value model that's a lot less than a linear model. It would come with the 2.0L ECOTEC Turbo that has 175 HP. It would come with basic amenities like power group, manual a/c, cloth seats (europe has them and canada offered them until 2004 as a no cost option, we have them instead of the leather, the base would of course offer leather as an option) abs w/traction control (stability control would be optional) front and side airbags and a 4 speaker stereo instead of the 7-speaker linear models. It would come of course with the saab DIC that's on top of the dash near the windshield. transmissions would be 5-speed manual, 5-speed sentronic automatic. It would also come with the high tech security system, it's a good feature and worth it, our 9-3 linear has it and the car is virtually impossible to steal or even break into. What do you guys think, would you like to see an affordable saab 9-3, my model is essentially like our 9-3 linear just with a few less horses, 4-speaker stereo and just has regualar traction control, we have cloth seats and they are quite good.

EDIT: Since 2006 won't have the 175 HP Linear Model, I'll make that the engine on the value model instead of my original Euro-spec 1.8L 155 HP ECOTEC Turbo