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Dave W

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Looks bad for Saab
« on: November 24, 2009, 06:48:21 PM »
Koenigsegg backs out of Saab deal

Worst car I ever owned was my 74 Saab 99. Still I hate to see the brand go by the wayside, and that looks like a real possibility.
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Re: Looks bad for Saab
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2009, 10:17:33 PM »
Saab is a worthy brand - this is not good news.  I was hoping they'd make it!
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Re: Looks bad for Saab
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2009, 10:42:57 PM »
SAAB voted worst car sold in Australia 4 years straight in the late 80's by the pre-eminent consumer magazine Choice. I had a mate who owned one. He said it was very comfortable but underpowered and very unreliable. Generalconsensus here is that they are a bad choice of car for a country with our heat.
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Re: Looks bad for Saab
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2009, 06:27:29 AM »
I'll miss the "black panel" function!
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Re: Looks bad for Saab
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2009, 09:26:50 AM »
Back in the 80's they were the choice of Yuppies in the city, along side BMW's. They lost that whole "young professional" crowd along the way.
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Re: Looks bad for Saab
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2009, 04:04:57 PM »
Does GM own the aviation division...? can't see the Swedish Govt letting that go down... (no pun)
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Re: Looks bad for Saab
« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2009, 04:37:44 PM »
No, Saab Automobile has been completely separate from Saab AB for years.
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Re: Looks bad for Saab
« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2009, 08:05:03 PM »
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Re: Looks bad for Saab
« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2009, 08:58:44 PM »
I liked the Viggen auto that came out a few years ago - great shade of blue, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saab-9-3-coupe-viggen.jpg
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Re: Looks bad for Saab
« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2009, 02:20:36 PM »
The latest: Spyker To Buy Saab?

Seems like an unlikely match, even moreso than Koenigsegg.
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Re: Looks bad for Saab
« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2009, 02:42:27 PM »
Quote from: Barklessdog on November 25, 2009, 08:05:03 PM
Love the  Viggens & Drakens


You really need to check out the Griffen:




BTW, if you like the Draken, check out Firebirds from a few years back. It's a silly Nicolas Cage/Sean Young "war" movie that was a bad attempted promo for the AH-64 Apache to do for it what Top Gun did for the much (unfairly I might add) maligned F-14 Tomcat. The good parts are that the "bad" guys fly Drakens and Tommy Lee Jones gets to spend a whole movie being an ironically good actor in a crappy movie.
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Re: Looks bad for Saab
« Reply #11 on: December 13, 2009, 03:35:56 PM »
I could never work out why Saabs have that extra mud flap on each side halfway between the front and rear wheels.
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Re: Looks bad for Saab
« Reply #12 on: December 13, 2009, 09:08:12 PM »
Saab and Saturn.  I guess it was time.  I don't think I will miss either as much as Pontiac and Oldsmobubbles.
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Re: Looks bad for Saab
« Reply #13 on: December 13, 2009, 10:25:09 PM »
Quote from: eb2 on December 13, 2009, 09:08:12 PM
Saab and Saturn.  I guess it was time.  I don't think I will miss either as much as Pontiac and Oldsmobubbles.

Amen.  To me, Saturns became the VW Microbus of the 90's - they always drove slowly so I automatically passed them.  The drivers just didn't care about getting down the road.
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Re: Looks bad for Saab
« Reply #14 on: December 14, 2009, 05:27:09 AM »
I will miss Saturn.  I've had 4 of them now.  My Vue is pretty peppy for a six-cylinder automatic.  It's been one of the best cars I've ever had.  And I've been through about 50 in my life so far.
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