There were a couple of interesting outcomes from the Saab 900 poll today. For me as a blogger, the fact that there were only 100 respondents (less than third of the usual amount) was interesting, but that’s a side issue.
The main outcome was that 50% of respondents have either never owned or never driven a Saab 900. This shouldn’t be so surprising. The youngest Saab 900s are now 14 years old and the oldest are 29 years old. That’s a lot of water under the bridge and I guess you could say it’s a testament to the brand’s longevity that there’s such a high proportion of 900-experienced people still hanging around.
The comments in the post were a testimony as well. There were a lot of fond memories shared there and it all pretty much confirms a thought that’s been forming in my head in the last few days – that the Saab 900 was quite possibly the best “attainable” car of the 1980′s and one of the best of the 1990s as well.
By attainable, I mean that there were possibly more desireable cars in this era – who didn’t want a Lamborghini? – but the Saab 900 was a great performing, comfortable and incredibly practical car that was pretty affordable in most markets.
But more than that, the car had incredible character. From the profile of the three-door to the funky interiors, the Saab 900 just oozes personality and it loses none of that when you get behind the wheel.
I’m going to post more on that later, but thanks to all who participated and stay tuned for some more Saab 900 thoughts and prognostications over the weekend.
Golfhunter’s two-tone 900
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Hi Swade
I picked up the article from the feed on my home page, but then struggled to find it via your new home page!
In the end I linked to it via my feed, but to late to vote.
Any suggestions, or am I just being thick?
New home page looks good though.
All the best, Nick.
Seconded. Probably some growing pains with the new format. While the feeds seem to be updating the homepage isn’t which is stuck on the sludge suing story.
Thanks guys.
I noted this problem in an update to the feature story “Welcome to TS 2.0″ as I’ve had a couple of people write to me about it.
If anyone else is having this problem, are you using Internet Explorer or another browser? The people I’ve heard from were both using IE7 and it wasn’t updating. Firefox and Safari seem to be fine. I’ve checked it on IE7 at home and it was OK, but I know some are having problems.
Using Firefox 3.01 and I get the 17th of July Post on the update as the last post. I Have to use a rss reader to get updates.
Front page not updated, I’m using IE 6. Article on front page is “SaabUSA sued…”
Some good news. It works great with the iPhone! In fact it’s one of the few things that are working on this phone since apples update! What were they thinking? Good for TS bad for apple! I’m sure they’ll fix it….
Opera browser works fine too. It seems only IE7 has issues?
On the site not updating issue: It seems to be my whole work that is having the issue. No matter what browser I use or even if I ask other people to try the site, it’s always frozen in time. It works fine here at home.
As for today’s entry, I’d be interested to see how many people have owned/driven 99s. Ever since I got mine, I haven’t missed my 900 for a second.