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Top Safety Pick Gold Award. Saab 9-3 Sport Sedan. Top rating. US Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) front, side and rear crash tests, 2005.
 Top rating: Substantially better than average. Saab 9-3 Sport Sedan. Ranked 31 percent better than the average car. US Highway Loss Data Institute(HLDI) study, 2005.
 Maximum rating: Good. Saab 9-3 SportCombi. For Saab Active Head Restraints (SAHR). Britain’s Thatcham insurance research centre crash tests, 2005.

 Best Pick in side-impact crash tests, American IIHS (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety), USA. The Sport Sedan repeats the "Best Pick" rating from last year's IIHS frontal offset crash test and is now the first car with standard safety equipment to receive a double "Best Pick" honour.
 Received highest rating, "Good" in the IIHS & Thatcham studies into the safety of car seats and head restraints, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety USA, Thatcham, Great Britain.
 Awarded Compact Executive Car of the Year, Auto Trader, Great Britain
 Voted Top Small Executive Car, Top Gear Magazine's New Car Buyer's Guide, Great Britain
 Awarded one of "10 best Cars of the Year", Hong Kong Car and Driver, Hong Kong
 Awarded Best European Intermediate/middle sedan, Car Plus Award, Hong Kong
 Recommended buy, US Consumer Reports magazine, USA

 Awarded maximum five star rating in EuroNCAP collision test, Saab 9-3 Sports Sedan, EuroNCAP
 Best Family Sedan, Saab 9-3 Sport Sedan, PBS’s MotorWeek television, USA
 Prestige Car of the Year, Saab 9-3 Sport Sedan, Brisbane Courier Mail, Australia
 Best Buy, Saab 9-3 Sport Sedan, Expressen, Sweden
 Best New Car, Saab 9-3 Arc Sport Sedan ($30,000 - $40,000 range), Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, USA
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