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Detroit, 12:32 PM
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I like the 900 convertibles up to and including the '90s version. The switch to the 9-3 body style as a drop-top does nothing for me.
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The key, really, is to either buy off lease or buy a clean used example. The newer Saabs are much more refined than the old Vectra 9-3 clone, however, which is rather berserk on boost.
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The Saab 900 should have been renamed the Saab 9^3.05903274, not the Saab 9^3. More precisely, it should have been the Saab 9^(ln(900)/ln(3)).
The Saab 9000 is even trickier. It seems that Saab rounded up very ambitiously from the Saab 9^4.143854911 to the Saab 9^5.
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The Audis... yes, their high-end, powerful cars make me tingly in my naughty bits, but the rest aren't really... exciting.
There's just something quirky and weird about a Saab. You know they're not all that great, you know they're not REALLY a luxury car, you know they've been raped, pillaged and plundered by the General... but somehow, still, when you see them, you smirk and think, "Heh. Cool."
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What would have been much better is if they started with the 260HP engine out of the hot Astra and slotted it in a modified chassis. Turbo Saabs are supposed to be berserk, not bland.
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