[s-cars] The cars for kids.

[Theodore Chen]

nope, none of those.  maybe he got lucky.
the '96 saab 900S used the saab engine in the vectra chassis as i
recall.

my brother was a busy surgical resident and not exactly inclined
to devote much time to babying the car, either.

he sold that car for $1500 less than he paid for it, with a few
more years and an extra 60k on the clock.  in exchange, he got
reliable, practical, moderately fun transportation with a dash
of luxury.

-teddy


--- Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com> 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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