Talk:Saab 900

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Can someone please check the new para inserted (03:31, 8 June 2006 68.109.116.217 (→Convertible)). I have relocated it and done a fairly major reword but I feel that it needs verifying and better integrating into the article, so we don't have the comment ref. US/Swedish spec., that is unfitting for an encyclopedic article. - Ballista 04:11, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Notable appearances 2 New 'Overview' section needs wikifying 3 Rewording needed after verification 4 Merge

[edit] Notable appearances

Why did this section have to go? there are a numerous other car pages like [Volkswagen_Beetle] and [De_Lorean_DMC-12] that have either "notable TV appearances" in their page sections. Either this should be done consistently across all car pages or not. I've seen the Saab 900 appear in a lot of good movies / series. Eelke —Preceding comment was added at 19:30, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

The pop culture section for this article was just a laundry list of appearences. It did not say anything about the 900s actual effect on pop culture, which is what the prose section from the Beetle and De Lorean pages try to do. Pop culture appearences should only mention trully significant usages of the vehicle where it was clearly chosen for specific qualities rather than just being a car driven by a character. Both the Beetle and the Del Lorean pop culture section need serious clean up, it just looks like no one has gotten around to it yet. A well written and referenced section on how the 900 impacted pop culture would be welcome, but the consensus both on WP:CAR and elsewhere is that lists of appearences trivial and are better suited for places like IMDB. --Daniel J. Leivick (talk) 19:39, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New 'Overview' section needs wikifying

Nice piece of material - however, it needs 'wikification' as soon as possible & I have run out of time today, sorry - Ballista 07:22, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rewording needed after verification

I have flagged this up previously and feel it is still in need of confirmation or verification and rewrite "This may not be accurate for Swedish Saabs, but is for the American versions". This is not encyclopaedic writing. - Ballista 04:37, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

I can definitely contradict the statement. I have an American 1990 model and it has turbo badges on the front fenders as well as the hatchback. El Mariachi 02:50, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

To conform with other car articles that deal with model changes Mercury Cougar, Ford Cortina, Jaguar XJ, etc, Saab 900 (NG) should be merged into Saab 900. SilkTork *SilkyTalk 20:34, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

That's great, but if you're going to merge anything, please do it right or else don't bother. It is important to delineate between these two completely different cars (with the same name). The overall organization of the article should reflect this fact but still doesn't: one original article was apparently just glued onto the end of the other one. Sheesh! 69.30.112.12 (talk) 00:42, 25 March 2008 (UTC)