nonemoreblack
Active Member
I always thought Saabs were overpriced, overweight tanks with the cornering ability of shopping trolleys (but with nice interiors). Am I wrong?
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Here, I'm reckoning on buying a car this summer.
Why should I buy a Saab instead of yer usual Toyota-style business.
Is it just cos they look deadly? Aren't they pricey tax-wise?
Picked up my Saab on Saturday - drive brilliantly. Handling is sublime, although ride is firm. Amazing nick for a 22-year old car with 185K on the clock. It's very, very fast when the turbo kicks in. It's 175bhp, but the classic car inspector I got to do a report on it reckons it has been tuned to about 200bhp.
Depends on your budget and what you want from a car.
If the car you're buying is pre-2008 it will be taxed on engine size; 2008 onwards are priced based on emissions, in which case the 1.9 Saab diesel is very cheap to tax.
I reckon a 2004/2005 Saab 9-5 is a really good bargain these days - something like this:
http://www.carzone.ie/search/Saab/9-5/2.0t-STU/200912192198941/advert?channel=CARS
I reckon a 2004/2005 Saab 9-5 is a really good bargain these days - something like this:
http://www.carzone.ie/search/Saab/9-5/2.0t-STU/200912192198941/advert?channel=CARS
Budget is around 5 grand. If I can sell the current yoke.
That fella does look lovely, but one reason for selling the current one is cos €650 per year tax is a bit beyond me.
No Saabs for me so! Thanks!
is 200 hp a lot for a car then?
I've driven bikes with 140ish bhp, like, which realistically is a bit excessive. I thought that the Saab 900s would have a good bit more than that.
I see, so a Corolla develops 114 bhp. And a Porsche 911 345bhp.
So, ok, I suppose its pretty quick.
Here, how do Saab engines work? Are the V somethings or inline pistons?
I drove inline 4 bikes, and the engines deliver the power at insane levels when you get up into the high RPMs, but not very well low down. I prefer the V twins because the power comes on strong instantly, and climbs slowly. Its much easier to put power down onto the road without spinning up the back wheel coming out of corners and the like.
Is your yoke a V4 or V6?
edit... hmm, so I found the wiki page. Complicated shit.
The 900 seems to be a V4 I think? Right? An L 4 its saying, with a 45 degree turn. Which sound like a V 4 to me. Complicated sounding car.
my dad has a 2007 1.4l octavia - it's certainly not highly powered, though. bear in mind that the two 1.6l models have a stated identical (for the lower power one) and better (higher power one) fuel efficiency - depending on how much you drive, the difference on the higher power one could be cheaper to run.The Skoda Octavia is worth considering. 1.4l so low tax - has huge boot for hauling band gear and is good to drive, decently specced and ultra reliable. In the past three years in the JD Power driver survey it has polled 1st, 1st and 2nd. Here's one for €6K.
http://www.carzone.ie/search/Skoda/Octavia/1.4-Petr/200909191955054/advert?channel=CARS
Nope - Saabs don't share platforms with Ford - the Mondeo shares its platform with the Jag x-type and mazda 6. Saabs of the current era use GM platform - the 9-3 shares with the Vectra.
Not that there's anything wrong with sharing a mondeo platform by the way - the mondeo is one of the best cars to drive on the road and pound-for-pound is one if the best value cars around.
June 16, 2009
GM Says Reaches Deal to Sell Saab
By REUTERS
Filed at 4:40 a.m. ET
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - General Motors Europe said on Tuesday a preliminary agreement has been reached to sell the company's loss-making Swedish unit Saab to local sports carmaker Koenigsegg.
Koenigsegg, a small company with just 45 staff that makes only a handful of cars a year, came out of nowhere to emerge as a front-runner to buy Saab.
The deal would see Saab, which was put up for sale earlier this year, emerge from two decades under the umbrella of its U.S. parent which filed for bankruptcy earlier this month.
Sale terms were not disclosed but the agreement includes expected financing to be guaranteed by Sweden.
"The sale, expected to close by the end of the third quarter of this year, includes an expected $600 million funding commitment from the European Investment Bank (EIB) guaranteed by the Swedish government," GM Europe said in a statement on its website.
Saab Automobile had been in talks with two or three bidders in recent weeks.
Saab, whose sales comprised just over 1 percent of GM's total sales volume last year, has been hit hard by the economic downturn that has savaged sales on both sides of the Atlantic.
The company, one of Sweden's best-known brands, has said it needs $1 billion of financing to help it overhaul production and launch new models while absorbing expected losses of about 3 billion Swedish crowns ($382 million) this year.
The Skoda Octavia is worth considering.
http://www.carzone.ie/search/Skoda/Octavia/1.4-Petr/200909191955054/advert?channel=CARS
Thanks! Will have a go on one of those so. Might have a goo at a Focus too. Need hatching back for drumulars and that.
Thanks! Will have a go on one of those so. Might have a goo at a Focus too. Need hatching back for drumulars and that.
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