Observations about European cars

Larry C Leung l.leung at juno.com
Fri Sep 7 20:44:13 EDT 2001


On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 06:43:17 -0700 (PDT) josh Wyte <josh_wyte at yahoo.com>
writes:
>I personally think the involvement of GM and Ford with
>Jaguar and Saab was a *good* thing!  Both of those
>marques had such abysmal quality control that owning
>the cars was practically excructiating.
>
>Like my parents '79 Saab 900 that went through 3
>motors in 4 years and needed it's fuel injectors
>cleaned out every 2 weeks.  Now there was a quality
>peice of engineering!

My '75 99 (virtually the same car) had none of those problems when I sold
it at 130K miles. And BTW, the injector system in the 99 and 900 series
is the same Bosch CIS system used in various VAG products.

LL - NY






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