13 responses so far ↓

• 1 JB // Jan 20, 2009 at 9:26 pm

  It is really intresting and positive that Dagens Nyheter is writeing that “SAAB and Trollhättan” are winners in this. This will hopefully make swedish carbuyers returning back to the brand.

  To start this off I will soon change my company car and would like your help with choosing my new car, shall I go for:
  93 SC Linear 1.8T Biopower
  or the old but with lot of good stuff:
  95 SC Griffin Linwar 2.0T Biopower.
  Both peppergreen (of course)

  I do have a small child, 9 days today, but the 93 is big enough for the family.

  What do you think?

  All the best

  //JB

• 2 Rune (the other one) // Jan 20, 2009 at 9:57 pm

  JB, I absolutely love my 93 SC 1.8t Biopower. Excellent choice.

  But peppergreen? Although it was one of the colours I considered when I bought mine a year ago, I now think it looks a bit ugly. Ice blue or fusion blue… That’s the ticket…

  I think you will find it harder to sell the peppergreen model a few years from now. (But then again, maybe peppergreen will return to fashion again)

  You don’t mention how long you want to keep this vehicle. If you plan on adding two more kids in the mean time, a 9-5 is probably where you are heading.

  PS: The 95 is more expensive? Can’t you take the 93 and add more options to it? I would not be able to survive without parking assistance.

• 3 JB // Jan 20, 2009 at 10:10 pm

  Hi Rune!

  It is a company lease car, so I will not need to sell it, just return it to the leasecompany after 3 years so the color oes not matter thar much in this since. When it comes to the lease cost the 95 is more expensive due to the low second-hand value here in Sweden. But as we all know with the Griffin you get the parking assistence for “free”. It will be a maximum of 2 kids in the car during this period. My wife do drive our 93 SS -05 now so we will have two cars. I will drive aroun 35000 km/year. I also looking in to the possibility to wait until the new 95 is out, and add one year more to my current car (Peugeot 307- please do not laugh I did not pick it my self) but I think this will be too expensive for my budget of 250 000 SEK.

• 4 Rune (the other one) // Jan 20, 2009 at 10:29 pm

  I think you need to take the 9-5 out for a spin and see which car you enjoy driving the most. And if you have had the same amount of snow as we’ve had the last couple of days, now would be a perfect time to test!

• 5 JB // Jan 20, 2009 at 10:36 pm

  In Lerum outside of Gothenburg it is no snow, but I am up north quite often and I recently drove a 93 SC from Umeå to Kiruna

• 6 Rune (the other one) // Jan 20, 2009 at 11:59 pm

  In that case, you need whatever car is the most comfortable to you. I drove Oslo – Tromsø in August, and that took me through Kiruna. But there was no snow then. The roads were bad up there. Unpaved. I guess they were reconstructing them?

  So how did you like the 93 in the snow? I have not had a real chance to drive it extensively on snowy roads. Just a mile here or there… It struggled a bit to make it up the hill to my home yesterday, but then I discovered I had put the pedal to the metal, so I was just spinning my wheels and the ESP was working overtime making sense of it all. In the end I went faster uphill than normal cars going downhill…

• 7 JB // Jan 21, 2009 at 12:36 am

  No, The roads are always been that bad up north both in Sweden and Norway. The car worked fine on the E4/E10 but I think the sounds from the stubbs where quite loud inside the car on the snowy roads. I also drove on the Finnish side between Tornio and Karesuando where their where lotsa of Reindeers so I really tested the car in that sense and it all worked better then expected so the drive on snow is almost better then on normal roads.

• 8 Rune (the other one) // Jan 21, 2009 at 1:08 am

  Ah… Finland… When I was there, the roads were covered with water in many places. My SAAB was swimming along, doing 80+ with a huge splash of water on both sides of the car! There was a BMW trailing me, but on those roads I went much faster. It wasn’t until we crossed into Norway and I kept under the speed limits that it managed to catch up again. (I am afraid of Norwegian speeding tickets, they are a tad more severe than Swedish ones, although the one I got in Sweden was quite bad too, 3500 SEK)

  BTW: Best SAAB commercial ever..? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAR_H_pZBKg&feature=rec-HM-fresh+div

• 9 zippy // Jan 21, 2009 at 11:16 am

  Bloody cat. Beautiful colour on that car though!

• 10 Karen // Jan 21, 2009 at 11:23 am

  thanks for the vicarious Saab driving. happy to send you some of my snow! Am outside shovelling almost every day lately, and confirm that the white 900S down the block has indeed been replaced by a Subaru wagon.

  My cat Homer LOVED our 900. He used to sit in my lap for hours while I house-hunted in 2000, no problem shifting gears, so watch the cat jokes. Current cat Alvin needs tranquilizer, but he appreciates the smooth ride, and does not usually open all the windows when he tours the rear (I leave the back seats down) and likes to sit in the rear window of the hatch. the passenger seat leg room well is perfect for his tiny travel box. such a pussy.

  (you invited Saab cat stories, Swade!)

• 11 Jeff // Jan 21, 2009 at 3:33 pm

  Man, I love cats.

  I think the 9 Lives thing fits Saab pretty well. This company should probably have been dead three or four times at this point. Thank God it isn’t.

• 12 SAABoy // Jan 21, 2009 at 6:05 pm

  What kinda convertible is that in the background? The silver one… It’s most definitely not a SAAB…

• 13 ctm // Jan 21, 2009 at 7:27 pm

  SAABoy,

  I think it’s a Volvo C70.