"When you look to the German car manufacturers now, they are fighting against each other with the biggest statement, with more horse power, and these days a diesel engine car is as powerful as a petrol car, " Saab Europe's Claude Makowski told BBC News Online.
The car will get different sheet metal and an altered interior from the Impreza -based sedan, but if you look under the hood you'll see a Subaru engine, and everywhere else you look you'll see Subaru, not Saab parts.