It’s the weekend, which means that somewhere in the world, a bunch of Saab drivers are heading out to meet up, have a drive/feed/chat somewhere in the world.
My thanks to Z for sending through these pics from a recent meeting of Hungarian Saab nuts.
They got a few 2008s to come along, including a Turbo X. Note also, the e85 converted Saab 900, which I believe belongs to the head of one of the Saab clubs there.
Cheers, Z!
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The twin pipes. Nice.
900 goes green.
The Turbo X made it’s presence known….
The geographically limited Saab 900 EP (ecopower)
Pepper Green was in the house….
And the twin turbo diesel was there as well. That completes a pretty nice lineup.
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Aside from a desire to reduce gasoline consumption, is there some incentive or tax in Hungary that would influence someone to convert to E85?
I am hungary to go there…
Lance, Lance. Tsk tsk. You may be banned from the comments section with hackneyed puns like that one.
The only support from the state that the tax of the E85 reduced.
Actually, it doesn’t worth to convert because of the extra fuel consumption you will pay the same to drive the same distance.
Oh, and there is one more problem: there are only a few gasoline stations serving E85 (maybe 5-6), and it takes long drive to get there.
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Even the BioPower models of the Hungarian Saab use rather gasoline.
If you ask for a test drive of BioPower, they give you the car with gasoline.
Thanks, Ivan(MuzX).
It seems that each country rolls out a different mix of subsidies to push E85. In Sweden, apparently, biofuel cars get a tax break, no urban congestion fees and free parking privileges. Where such things don’t exist, there isn’t a very compelling reason to make the switch. Maybe second-generation ethanol will be cheap enough to overcome this problem and the inherently lower cost per mile/kilometer.
There are currently 15 E85 stations in Hungary and the number is growing, albeit slowly. Tesco has one E85 station in Budapest and they are considering opening more in their network of about 50 outlets. If anyone wants to test a BioPower it WILL be supplied with a full tank of E85 (a journalist once received one with petrol by mistake, and duly made plenty of fuss about it
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Sorry, Andrew, I did not now it. Unfortunately, the misleading information can spread very quickly but it seems that it happened not only with the journalist.
A member of our forum also asked for a test drive with the BioPower 9-5 and when they discussed the scheduling Polar Mobil’s sales guy said that sorry, there is a small problem, the test car is filled with petrol… So our mate canceled it.
Anyway, if there’s no problem to try E85 now than sorry for the incorrect information.