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The Saab 9-5 is an executive car
Executive car

Executive car is a British English term that refers to a car's size and is used to describe an automobile larger than a large family car. In official use, the term is adopted by EuroNCAP, a European organization founded to test car safety....
 produced by the Swedish automobile maker Saab
Saab Automobile

Saab Automobile AB, better known as Saab, is a Swedish automaker and currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Motors. It is the exclusive automobile royal warrant holder as appointed by Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden....
. It was introduced in 1997 as the replacement to the Saab 9000
Saab 9000

The 9000, Saab Automobile's first executive car, was released in 1985. It was replaced by the Saab 9-5 in the fall of 1998 for the 1999 model year....
. The 9-5 replaced the 9000 in the spring of 1997 for the 1998 model year
Model year

The model year of a product is a number used in North America to describe approximately when a product was produced.The model year and the actual calendar year of production do not always coincide....
. At the time, the car represented a great leap forward for Saab. In the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, the 9-5 was introduced in the spring of 1998, for the 1999 model year.

The 9-5 is available with sedan and station wagon
Station wagon

A station wagon in American English, Australian English, Canadian English and New Zealand English usage and an estate car in British English usage, is a passenger automobile with a car body style similar to a sedan but with the roofline following the full, sometimes extended rear cargo area, i.e. ending with a more vertical door...
 body styles. Aerodynamically, the sedan's drag coefficient
Drag coefficient

The drag coefficient is a dimensionless quantity which is used to quantify the drag or resistance of an object in a fluid environment such as air or water....
 is 0.29, and the station wagon's is 0.31 (U.S.






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The Saab 9-5 is an executive car
Executive car

Executive car is a British English term that refers to a car's size and is used to describe an automobile larger than a large family car. In official use, the term is adopted by EuroNCAP, a European organization founded to test car safety....
 produced by the Swedish automobile maker Saab
Saab Automobile

Saab Automobile AB, better known as Saab, is a Swedish automaker and currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Motors. It is the exclusive automobile royal warrant holder as appointed by Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden....
. It was introduced in 1997 as the replacement to the Saab 9000
Saab 9000

The 9000, Saab Automobile's first executive car, was released in 1985. It was replaced by the Saab 9-5 in the fall of 1998 for the 1999 model year....
. The 9-5 replaced the 9000 in the spring of 1997 for the 1998 model year
Model year

The model year of a product is a number used in North America to describe approximately when a product was produced.The model year and the actual calendar year of production do not always coincide....
. At the time, the car represented a great leap forward for Saab. In the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, the 9-5 was introduced in the spring of 1998, for the 1999 model year.

The 9-5 is available with sedan and station wagon
Station wagon

A station wagon in American English, Australian English, Canadian English and New Zealand English usage and an estate car in British English usage, is a passenger automobile with a car body style similar to a sedan but with the roofline following the full, sometimes extended rear cargo area, i.e. ending with a more vertical door...
 body styles. Aerodynamically, the sedan's drag coefficient
Drag coefficient

The drag coefficient is a dimensionless quantity which is used to quantify the drag or resistance of an object in a fluid environment such as air or water....
 is 0.29, and the station wagon's is 0.31 (U.S. version 0.33), which was introduced in 1999. It features such innovations as tracks to secure cargo down and a sliding load floor to make loading easier.

Badged as a 95, Saab consistently advertises it as the 9-5. The name is pronounced "nine five" rather than "ninety five". This model should not be confused with the Saab 95
Saab 95

The Saab 95 was a 7-seater, 2-door station wagon made by Saab Automobile. Initially it was based on the Saab 93 sedan version, but the model's development throughout the years followed closely that of the Saab 96 since the 93 was put off the market in 1960....
, produced from 1959 to 1978.

Engines

The 9-5 is powered by Saab's B205 and B235
Saab H engine

The Saab H engine is a redesign of the Saab B engine. Despite the name it is not an H engine, but a slanted inline-4. The H engine was introduced in 1981 in the Saab 900 and was also used in the Saab 99 from 1982 onwards and the Saab 90....
 straight-4
Straight-4

The straight-4 or inline-4 engine is a four cylinder internal combustion engine with all four cylinder mounted in a straight line along the crankcase....
 engines
Internal combustion engine

The internal combustion engine is an engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs in a combustion chamber inside and integral to the engine. In an internal combustion engine it is always the expansion of the high temperature and pressure gases that are produced by the combustion which apply force to the movable component of the engine, such as...
, and in Europe by Alfa Romeo
Alfa Romeo

Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italian automaker founded on 24 June 1910 in Milan. Alfa Romeo has been a part of the Fiat Group since 1986....
's 1.9 JTD 16V diesel
Diesel

Diesel or diesel fuel in general is any fuel used in diesel engines. The most common is a specific fractional distillation of petroleum fuel oil, but alternatives that are not derived from petroleum, such as biodiesel, biomass to liquid or gas to liquid diesel, are increasingly being developed and adopted....
 straight-4
Straight-4

The straight-4 or inline-4 engine is a four cylinder internal combustion engine with all four cylinder mounted in a straight line along the crankcase....
. A version of the GM
General Motors

General Motors Corporation , founded in 1908, is the world's second-largest automaker after Toyota, ranked by 2008 global unit sales. GM was the global sales leader for 77 consecutive calendar years from 1931 to 2008....
 54°
GM 54-Degree V6 engine

General Motors Corporation' Opel division in Europe designed a compact V6 engine with an odd 54? vee angle. It was an iron block/aluminum head DOHC design with 4 valves per cylinder....
 V6 powered by a unique asymmetrical low-pressure turbocharger
Turbocharger

A turbocharger, or turbo, is a gas compressor used for forced induction of an internal combustion engine. Like a supercharger, the purpose of a turbocharger is to increase the mass of air entering the engine to create more power....
 was available from 1999 to 2003. This engine was available only with an automatic transmission, and cars with this engine installed are distinguishable by their twin tailpipes. It was only available on Arc, SE, and Griffin models. In 2004, the V6 engine was replaced by a high pressure turbo straight-4 engine producing . By 2008 this engine was producing even in the non-Aero model (US model).

The B235-based 9-5 models have suffered an abnormally high rate of engine failures due to engine oil sludge. This primarily affected the 1999-2003 models. Saab refined the engine's positive crankcase ventilation system (PCV) for the 2004 and later model years, virtually eliminating the problem. Additionally, SAAB created update kits to retrofit to the 1999-2003 cars since they cannot be easily modified to accept the 2004 and later system. Mounting complaints by 9-5 owners forced GM to offer an 8 year warranty on the engine in 4 cylinder models, provided the owner can produce proof that they followed the manufacturer's oil change intervals. Saab now also recommend the use of fully synthetic oil as a preventative measure.

Transmissions

The 9-5 was available with an Aisin Warner 4-speed automatic transmission from 1997-2001. A new Aisin Warner unit replaced the dated 4-speed automatic with a 5-speed automatic. A 5-speed manual transmission is fitted as standard to the base models and the Aero.

Alternative propulsion


E85
In 2005, an updated version of the 2.0 L turbocharged I4
Straight-4

The straight-4 or inline-4 engine is a four cylinder internal combustion engine with all four cylinder mounted in a straight line along the crankcase....
 was introduced in the Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an market together with the 2006 9-5. The engine is sold as 2.0t BioPower, and it is optimized to run on E85
E85

E85 is an alcohol fuel mixture that typically contains a mixture of up to 85% Methylated spirit fuel Ethanol fuel and gasoline or other hydrocarbon by volume....
 producing 132 kW
WATT

WATT is a radio station broadcasting a News radio-Talk radio-Sports radio format. Licensed to Cadillac, Michigan, it first began broadcasting in 1945....
 (180 hp
Horsepower

Horsepower is the name of several non-International System of Units units of power . It was originally defined to allow the output of steam engines to be measured and compared with the power output of draft horses....
) at 5500 rpm
Revolutions per minute

Revolutions per minute is a units of measurement of frequency: the number of Turn completed in one minute around a rotation around a fixed axis....
. There is also a 2.3t BioPower version sold from 2007.
E100
There is a Saab 9-5 E100
E100

E100 or E-100 may refer to:* E100 turmeric or curcumin, E number system food additive in the European Union* Casio Cassiopeia E-100, a Pocket PC...
 Concept, based on the turbo 2.0.

BioPower Hybrid
The Saab BioPower Hybrid
Hybrid electric vehicle

A hybrid electric vehicle is a hybrid vehicle which combines a conventional ground propulsion system with a rechargeable energy storage system to achieve better fuel economy in automobiles than a conventional vehicle....
 concept/prototype is based on the Saab 9-5 E100, with three additional electric motor
Electric motor

An electric motor uses electrical energy to produce mechanical energy, nearly always by the interaction of magnetic fields and current-carrying conductors....
s.

Safety

The 9-5 continued Saab's long-running tradition of offering class leading safety features and pioneered the availability of ventilated seats with Saab Active Head Restraints (SAHR), that moved up and forward to prevent whiplash
Whiplash (medicine)

Whiplash and whiplash-associated disorders represent a range of injury to the neck caused by or related to a sudden distortion of the neck.Whiplash is commonly associated with car accident, usually when the vehicle has been hit in the rear however the injury can be sustained in many other ways, including falls from bicycles or horses or h...
 when the car is struck from the rear. This feature won technology and safety awards, in Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
 and the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. The Saab 9-5 also has been one of the first cars to have extensive side-crash protection. In the front seats are torso and head airbags on even the oldest of 9-5s, making it unique in that few other late 1990s vehicles provide the same feature. Even more important is the side structure, which includes a passenger cage and crumple zones. The design has been proven by the IIHS to protect occupants in side crashes, even without the addition of side airbags to the rear seats.

Another Saab feature is the "Night Panel", which permits dousing of the instrument panel lighting, except for essential information, for less distraction when night driving.

In the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, OnStar
OnStar

OnStar Corporation is a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation that provides subscription-based telecommunication, in-vehicle security, turn-by-turn navigation, and remote diagnostics systems throughout the United States and Canada....
 is standard.

Aero

Saab sells a performance oriented 9-5 called the Aero. The 9-5 Aero was first released in 2000 with a 230hp 2.3t B235R engine. The 9-5 Aero represents the flagship car and has a long list of standard features. The 9-5 Aero is also fitted with a sport tuned suspension and body side moldings. In 2002 a 2.3 turbo engine was made standard. The high-powered version of the 9-5 in the current form produces and of torque
Torque

Torque is the tendency of a force to rotate an object about an axis . Just as a force is a push or a pull, a torque can be thought of as a twist....
 ( with its 20-second overboost function accessible on the manual transmission equipped version). Hirsch Performance, MapTun Performance, and Nordic Uhr and BSR AB, all tuners specializing in Saab models, can increase this to a maximum of approximately ECE (220 kW).

Currently, the B235R is the standard engine in the 9-5 in both the 2.3T and Aero trims. In addition, almost all standard features on the Aero are now standard on the 2.3T, the exceptions being sport-tuned chassis, two-tone leather upholstery, "anniversary" wheels and brushed aluminum interior trim, all of which are standard on Aero and not available on the 2.3T.

The Aero's 2.3T engine accelerates the car from 80 to faster than a Porsche 911 Carrera 4s.

Additionally, companies like MapTun Performance have developed aftermarket BioPower conversion kits for the 9-5 Aero and other Saab models. Larger injectors and remapped software in the Engine Control Unit (ECU) allows impressive power levels from 285 hp/330 lb/ft in the Aero model on E85 Ethanol.

Police car

  • The 9-5 is used for patrol
    Patrol

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     and undercover
    Undercover

    Being undercover is deception one's own identity or using an assumed identity for the purposes of gaining the trust of an individual or organization to learn secret information or to gain the trust of targeted individuals in order to gain information or evidence....
     in several parts of its native country, Sweden, alongside the Volvo V70
    Volvo V70

    The Volvo V70 is a mid-size five-door station wagon manufactured by Volvo Cars since 1996 — and closely related to the Volvo S70, Volvo S60 and Volvo S80 sedan as well as the more stylized four-wheel drive Cross Country and XC70....
    . Several Police forces in the UK also use the 9-5 in their fleets, mostly in Aero guise.
  • The City of Aspen, Colorado
    Aspen, Colorado

    The City of Aspen is a Colorado municipalities#Home_Rule_Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Pitkin County, Colorado, Colorado, United States....
    , used Saabs as patrol cars from early 1970s until 2005, when the 9-5 was discontinued in favor of Volvo XC90
    Volvo XC90

    The Volvo XC90 is a mid-size luxury SUV crossover SUV produced by Volvo Cars since it was unveiled at the Detroit Motor Show 2002. It is based on the P2 Automobile platform, shared with the first generation Volvo S80 and other large Volvo cars....
    .
  • The town of Vail, Colorado
    Vail, Colorado

    The Town of Vail is a Colorado municipalities#Home_Rule_Municipality located in Eagle County, Colorado, Colorado. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 4,589....
     had been using Saabs since 1980, but in 2005, the black 9-5 patrol cars were replaced by Ford Explorer
    Ford Explorer

    The Ford Explorer is a mid-size sport utility vehicle sold in North America and built by the Ford Motor Company since 1990. It's manufactured in Louisville, Kentucky ....
    s, due to budget reasons.
  • Lothian and Borders Police in Edinburgh
    Edinburgh

    Edinburgh ; is the Capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish City status in the United Kingdom after Glasgow....
    , Scotland
    Scotland

    conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
    , have started using three Saab 9-5 Aero 2.3t patrol cars as part of a fleet of 580 various vehicles. These 9-5s were customised to police specifications by the Saab, Vauxhall and Chevrolet Special Vehicles Operation (SVO) in Papworth, Cambridgeshire
    Cambridgeshire

    Cambridgeshire is a Counties_of_the_United_Kingdom#England in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex, England and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west....
    .


Engines

ModelYearsEngineEngine typeDispl.Max. powerMax. torque0-100 km/h
1.9TiD2006.01-Fiat JTDstraight-4
Straight-4

The straight-4 or inline-4 engine is a four cylinder internal combustion engine with all four cylinder mounted in a straight line along the crankcase....
, diesel		1910 cc10,1 (10,7) s
2.2TiD2002-2006Opel(GM)?straight-4
Straight-4

The straight-4 or inline-4 engine is a four cylinder internal combustion engine with all four cylinder mounted in a straight line along the crankcase....
, diesel		2171 cc11,0 s
3.0 V6TiD2001-2006Isuzu
Isuzu

, is a Japanese car, commercial vehicle and heavy truck manufacturing corporation, headquartered in Tokyo. In 2005, Isuzu became the world's largest manufacturer of medium to heavy duty trucks....
 DMAX
DMAX V6 engine

The DMAX V6 engine is a Diesel engine. It was designed, and is produced by Isuzu in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan but the design rights to the engine are now owned by General Motors Corporation....
V6, diesel2958 cc8,9 s
2.0t1997.09-B205Estraight-4
Straight-4

The straight-4 or inline-4 engine is a four cylinder internal combustion engine with all four cylinder mounted in a straight line along the crankcase....
, petrol		1985 cc9,8 (10,2) s
2.0t BioPower2005-B205Estraight-4
Straight-4

The straight-4 or inline-4 engine is a four cylinder internal combustion engine with all four cylinder mounted in a straight line along the crankcase....
, E85		1985 cc8,5 (9,0) s
2.3t BioPower2006-B235Lstraight-4
Straight-4

The straight-4 or inline-4 engine is a four cylinder internal combustion engine with all four cylinder mounted in a straight line along the crankcase....
, E85		2290 cc7,9 (8,5) s
2.3t1997.09-2001B235Estraight-4
Straight-4

The straight-4 or inline-4 engine is a four cylinder internal combustion engine with all four cylinder mounted in a straight line along the crankcase....
, petrol		2290 cc8,7 (9,3) s
2.3t2001.01-B235Estraight-4
Straight-4

The straight-4 or inline-4 engine is a four cylinder internal combustion engine with all four cylinder mounted in a straight line along the crankcase....
, petrol		2290 cc7,9 (8,5) s
2.3T2004-B235Lstraight-4
Straight-4

The straight-4 or inline-4 engine is a four cylinder internal combustion engine with all four cylinder mounted in a straight line along the crankcase....
, petrol		2290 cc7,9 (8,5) s
3,0 V61998.01-2002L81V6, petrol2962 cc8,3 (auto) s
Aero1999.10-2001.09B235Rstraight-4
Straight-4

The straight-4 or inline-4 engine is a four cylinder internal combustion engine with all four cylinder mounted in a straight line along the crankcase....
, petrol		2290 cc6,9 (7,3) s
Aero2001.09-2005.10B235Rstraight-4
Straight-4

The straight-4 or inline-4 engine is a four cylinder internal combustion engine with all four cylinder mounted in a straight line along the crankcase....
, petrol		2290 cc6,9 (7,3) s
Aero2005.11-B235Rstraight-4
Straight-4

The straight-4 or inline-4 engine is a four cylinder internal combustion engine with all four cylinder mounted in a straight line along the crankcase....
, petrol		2290 cc6,9 (7,3) s


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