2002 SAAB 9-5 Gen.1

2002 SAAB 9-5 in Alias, TV Series, 2001-2006 IMDB Ep. 2.10

Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: SE

2002 SAAB 9-5 Gen.1

Pos: 00:14:32 [*][*][*] Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase 

Comments about this vehicle

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antp BE

2006-06-27 00:13

Briefly used by Sark, disguised as a Gendarme, but a Saab for French Gendarmerie car is not very realistic :D

Gag Halfrunt UK

2006-06-27 00:34

antp wrote Briefly used by Sark, disguised as a Gendarme, but a Saab for French Gendarmerie car is not very realistic :D

True, but to be fair you can't get any current French cars in the US.

antp BE

2006-06-27 00:42

Sure, but they could go buy few Peugeot in Mexico, as we said in another comment of this series :D
Another solution is to use old French cars sold in USA... (not much more realistic) or use a non-French car really used by the Gendarmerie and sold in the USA like the Ford Focus or Subaru Impreza (though they were maybe not yet used in France when they did that episode).
I understand that it can be difficult for them, but seeing what are paid the actors I wonder how they cannot buy few cars even if they cannot be registered in the USA (they can still use them for filming I guess, as long as the road is closed?)

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Gag Halfrunt UK

2006-06-27 00:51

Time as well as money is a factor -- most US series have 24 episodes a year, with each episode filmed in eight days. They probably can't afford to employ someone to research cars all day. :)

Yvon52 BE

2006-06-27 00:57

Question: les plaques qui débutent avec un W, c'est tout de même pour les voitures qui partent à l'exportation ????

jplemoine FR

2006-06-27 09:25

Pas forcément. Il y a trois cas de figure:
1/ les plaques en WW, immatriculations temporaires de véhicules neufs, en attente de carte grise définitive (15 jours maximum!)
2/ les plaques en W, immatriculations "garage" correspondant à un système d'immatriculation temporaire des véhicules ap^partenant à un garage ou à un concessionnaire
3/ les immatriculations "normales" dont la première lettre est un W, système abandonné depuis une quinzaine d'années, pour cause de confusion avec les systèmes d'immatriculations provisoires...

Donc cette plaque est fausse pour deux raisons principales: ce système en W plus deux autres lettres n'a JAMAIS été utilisé à Paris, et de plus la lettre I n'a jamais été utilisée, elle non plus, en France, dans aucun système d'immatriculation, pour cause de confusion avec le 1 (de même que le 0 et le O.

(et puis si la Gendarmerie avait été dotée de Saab officiellement, ça se serait su... A ma connaissance, les seules dotations en véhicules non-français de la Gendarmerie Nationale ont été les Ford Transit et Focus, et dernièrement les Subaru des Brigades d'intervention Rapide autoroutières.)

-- Last edit: 2006-06-27 09:31:35

coopey ES

2006-07-03 08:27

That's not a 9-3, that's a 9-5

antp BE

2006-07-03 13:16

I even checked to be sure, and I wonder why I finally labelled it as 9-3 :??:

antp BE

2006-07-13 14:56

In episode 2.13:
[Image: alias213saab0032447br.9210.jpg]
00:32:44 [*]

-- Last edit: 2006-07-13 14:56:20

chris40 UK

2007-09-26 10:18

Gag Halfrunt wrote Time as well as money is a factor -- most US series have 24 episodes a year, with each episode filmed in eight days. They probably can't afford to employ someone to research cars all day. :)


Well, yes, maybe. But if they can find a Tatra, a UAZ-469 and a Goélette, to name just a few, you'd think they could find something a bit more convincing than a Saab. :lol:

Gag Halfrunt UK

2007-09-26 11:59

For modern European cars, they were more or less limited to makes commercially available in the US, namely Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Volkswagen, Audi, Volvo and Saab. I imagine that they chose a Saab because it was relatively unusual.

I doubt that they looked for a Goélette in particular; they chose it from the small number of old, unfamiliar foreign vans that could be found in Los Angeles. The same goes for the other old foreign vehicles in the show -- you make do with what you can get. As for the Tatra, I think it could be just a photo pasted into the shot:
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