The piece we wrote earlier about the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship- or STCC-ready Dacia Logan, was such an oddball story that some may have clicked it hoping to ridicule the Romanian carmaker’ attempt at making a touring car based on their most basic means of transportation.
Most of you will have noticed that the car shown in the photos was unusually long and low, nothing like the Logan on which it was supposedly based.
The V6-powered car is, from the information that we have gathered, not run by an official factory team. It is actually the collaborative effort of the Swedish Dacia dealers’ network. Apparently, this means they are allowed to do pretty much anything they want, even use an entirely different car as a base.
What we actually have here is not a Dacia Logan, but rather a Saab 9-3 STCC with a Logan fascia grafted on, Logan mirrors, which if you look closely don’t really fit the contour of the window and Logan rear lights, in place of the typical Saab fixtures.
We did not find this little piece of information written anywhere, so we would go so far as to assume that the team behind the project wasn’t planning on telling people about this. However, looking at the photos and comparing them, we are 99.9 percent sure that we are right. There are just too many aspects that fit the story.
For starters, the shape of the body is radically different, the front is far too long, and the rear looks nothing like what it is supposed to (except for the lights, of course). If you look at the overall silhouette, the body kit, the large intake cut into the hood, as well as the unusual rear spoiler, the resemblance is uncanny. Take a closer look at the headlights, and you’ll see the shape of the Saab headlight, which doesn’t appear to be molded completely flush with the rest of the area.
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By Andrei Nedelea
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