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Saab is one of a handful of carmakers looking to buck the trend of building bigger and heavier cars with each new model generation. The upcoming 9-1, due to arrive in 2012.

The story is the same for the next-generation Saab 9-3, due in early 2010. Saab originally planned to use the new Ypsilon-2 architecture, used in cars like the Opel Insignia and upcoming production Buick Invicta, but has since decided to use the lower-medium Delta architecture.