[s-cars] The cars for kids.

[matt ludwig]

nope, nope, haven't seen it, and nope. i am talking of the same  
vintage and they are very reasonable to pick up today. and they run  
like tops for 100s of 1000s of miles afterwards, in my experience.

i am sorry to everyone here for bringing the focus of this thread  
away from it's original intent. i am w/ you Taka on almost everything  
but just wanted to chime in on the Saab, that's all. i have seen and  
helped w/ so many of them it is baffling and i have never seen any w/  
these catastrophic problems you note. doesn't mean they don;t happen  
though.

they are great cars IMHO and would love to drive one myself if i  
didn't have the greatest car ever (1995.5 S6 Avant ;)

a safe vehicle w/ an even safer, confident driver is all anyone can  
ever ask for. at least, that is what i tried to do when i began  
driving. and that was only a few years ago....

matt ludwig.
1995.5 S6 Avant

On Oct 13, 2005, at 8:37 AM, Taka Mizutani wrote:

> No DI cassette failures? No timing belt tensioner failures trashing  
> the head
> and valves?
> No head gasket failures?
>  I'm talking about the NG 900/ 9-3, not the "classic" 900.
>  With all of the issues with the Saab, I can understand why they're  
> worth so
> little-
> 900 turbos wholesale for less than $4k.
>  Taka
>
>  On 10/13/05, Theodore Chen <tedebearp at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> my brother had a '96, the last year it was still called a 900.
>> he got it used with 90k miles. he took that car to 150k miles,
>> and the only problem he had was when the exhaust clamps rusted
>> through and the muffler fell on the ground. that car lived in
>> new york city (manhattan) and made many trips to new hampshire,
>> boston, maryland, etc.
>>
>> i got the impression that the opel vectra-based saabs were more
>> reliable than the earlier saabs.
>>
>> -teddy
>>
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