Saab has 20 Potential Suitors Lined Up

how does Porsche do it?

I couldn't agree less. SAABs are bought because of the design language. What has been holding them back is lack of investment and having to re-use shoddy GM underpinnings when Volva, Audi, BMW and the rest have received heavy investment. Even SAAB lovers struggle to justify a purchase of a rebodied Vectra.

Amen to that Bristol, ive owned 4 Saabs. The time came when i needed a new car, the 9-3 Black Turbo-X looked in magazines amazing so i went to the dealer to investigate. From the outside the car looked amazing, the styling was spot on. Then i went inside and i started touching around, grabbed onto the cluster overhanging dash part and started shaking to see if it would budge(rock solid in my audi) and yeah it moved around, then i turned on the stereo which the buttons felt like crap, turned it up to max and stuff started rattling. The vent controls were this cheap plastic covered in rubber, the rubber seemed to be coming off or not glued on straight..I left the car dissapointed and thinking that my older 9-5 Aero was better, and that my 1991 9000 Aero was still king. Then i saw the price tag of 56k and walked even faster away. There was a Saturn Astra beside it, looked kind of interesting so i sat inside of it, and other than the lack of leather and a different interface for the radio everything was the same, same quality and the vent controls were the EXACT same. So i started to ask myself why would i pay 2.5x the price for the saab? Hell why would i pay the same price for that saab as a 2005 Audi A8 W12? GM watered Saab down so much that other than its outside styling and the engine everything was a typical GM for a SAAB price.

Yep, my mom has a 94 900s and i hate driving it, every time i get into it it breaks my heart to see what GM did to SAAB. But my biggest complaint with the 9-5 Aero was the engine and transmission mounts, they were too soft for performance driving, the engine would jerk too much durring heavy acceleration and then i couldnt shift until it returned to its spot(well i could but there would be some synchro grinding) It took some performance engine mounts and transmission mounts to fix that problem, grand total of 150$ and about 4hrs of work. Which makes me think why couldn't they do that from the start. Then i finally got my engine up to around 320whp everything was great..And one week later my Throttle Airflow sensor died on me, needed a whole new module thanks to GM 1200$...When i saw they used the same part on a GM i decided to sell the car, couldn't trust it anymore. Still the best saab you can get is a 91-94 9000 Aero hatch. Only thing that i had to change was the DI cassette but it was running on the original and 150k, my 9-5 went through 2 in 60k....