Saab collaborates with Hirsch Performance for go faster-parts for roll out with dealers

Posted: June 7th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Saab | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Saab is exerting its efforts to boost the enthusiasm of the market towards their car line up especially the 9-3 and the 9-5 but licensed architectures are limiting their options since they cannot modify the licenses to compete with GM’s products.

Without any license hindrances a 2011 9-5 engine which outputs 220 horsepower can easily be tweaked so it will output a far better 260 hp. This is one among the other things that can be done to the line of powerplants of the Saab vehicles.

For now the top executives of Saab is in talks with Hirsch Performance, a known Saab tuner in Europe, to come up with performance parts that can be offered and installed by dealers for their market in North America and their other markets. The car manufacturer though has not yet decided under which brand name the go-faster parts will be marketed since Hirsch is not a well known tuning company outside Europe or to the not so diehard fans of their brand.

The upgrade parts may come in the form of aero kits, exhaust setups, brakes, ECU upgrades, and other elements.

The discussion table includes people from Saab Performance Group, Hirsch, and Viggne moniker. According to insiders it might be possible that the parts will adopt different names in different markets with Hirsch for Europe and other brands for other markets.

The Saab team will work closely with the engineers of Hirsch and give them access to facilities, like a wind tunnel and an equipment for testing emissions, in the development of the upgrade products.

For now Saab fans, more aggressive engines coming out of the Saab garage are definitely not coming soon.

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