Comments by "18rabbit" (@18_rabbit) on "" video.

  1.  @AndrewJB yeah, on paper, that is how it's supposed to be, but in practice, quite a few of those parts are not available now and were chronically backordered even before bankruptcy! That was part of why i didn't buy a used or new left-over one in '12 in the U.S. Per rules and laws, parts only need to be available or produced for ten years after the car mfr'd date. So the gig is up, essentially. The parts prices are extraordinarily high for the 9-3, and it's security, steering and ignition computers are all pretty delicate and fail and all told, if also the main computer, u r looking at 2-5K$.
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  2.  @Afraz_9n3  yeah, no that was the myth we all believed but in fact Saab had struggled for well over 20 or 25 years.
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  3.  @Alex-ch2ud  2.8 wasn't lasting into very high miles without trouble ,and expected financially -totalling failure around upper 100K's miles. Also with that engine, fair number of them had unsolvable running issues rendering the car impractical to own, and many such units in the USofA were junked early.
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  4. miss saab terribly! almost bought a brand new left-over when they were going under in the final go-under in late '12 in the U.S., an estate, had two choices, the regular w/ petrol 4cyl turbo 2.0 (great engine) and the allwheel drive 'crosscountry' edition which was marked down from $42K to $22K, for real! Didn't do it! lol Bcuz here in the U.S., servicing and know-how (overall re any brand/model car repairs actually) is very very piss-poor vs the U.K. I really couldn't justify the purchase though, vs e.g. used other euro cars available at the time. If i'd had extra money, i'd absolutely have done it, bcuz it'd likely been my only new car ever (bcuz i dn't like new cars as a buy bcuz in the U.S. traditionally, it made no sense, bcuz like the U.K. today, we yanks had plentiful amounts of great used cars. Not so anymore over past entire decade actually, as the true middle class has actually become markedly less well off, & perhaps partly bcuz we export quite a few good used cars, which we didn't do previously.
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  5. the chinese also purchased the rights/blueprints/machinery-to-make the... iirc, the prior gen 9-5, and have actually made cars with that underpinning for the Chinese mkt, i think even some petrol ones.
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