[s-cars] The cars for kids.

[calvinlc@earthlink.net]

Interesting viewpoint, Matt.  My opinion of them is that when GM took them
over they went to hell.  My friend had not one but two 9000 Aeros he got
exchanged on a lemon law basis.  However his '89 900 ran great.

--Calvin


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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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