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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 07:35:26 -0700
From: B&D <NO_SPAMnopsamCOM>
Subject: Re: New 9-3's ?


On 4/10/03 10:59 PM, in article iRsla.698169$Yo4.61157329nopsam1.calgary.shaw.ca, "Abdallah" <abdallahjamalnopsamAMnopsam.ca> wrote: > "B&D" <NO_SPAMnopsamCOM> wrote in message > news:BABB98D5.32F4E%NO_SPAMnopsamCOM... > : On 4/10/03 8:24 PM, in article > Qzqla.10129$g27.217211nopsamter.rdc-kc.rr.com, > : "Dan" <dannopsamam.com> wrote: > : > : > What VW model and year did you have? Did you like the car, just not the > : > service? I am also considering a Passat. I currently have a Ford > : > Contour SVT which has had too many quality problems (ref Ford's current > : > trouble). > : > : When my wife and I were looking for a station wagon, we looked at the > Passat > : - seemed to lumberingly slow for us. Saab was the most nimble and fleet > of > : foot (wheel?) - the 9-5 and the 9-3 > : > > we had a '91 passat a couple of years back. lumberingly slow is correct. > when we were looking for a replacement, even our 87 9000s seemed zippier (no > turbo). now with our turbo model being so much more sprightly i could > never see us going back to a non turbo or a non saab. but the real sell for > us was how both our saabs feel on the road compared to driving the passat. > when we're weaving around the city or on the highway, we never get the > sensation that the car and contents are about to leave the road - as we > often did in the passat. > > with all the talk of SUV/trailblazer saabs in another thread, i'm feeling a > bit like i bought into a great car legacy that's going to become pure > vanilla, yuechh! Nah - Don't think that will actually happen. Growing up in the American Midwest, you hear a LOT about GM and the other American car companies - and GM gets the prize for floating really 'stoopid' ideas to the public. I think in this case, it will end up being Saab giving some really good ideas and designs to lesser beasts (Such as Saturn and Opel in the case of the 9-3) rather than the other way around. And when it happened the other way around, we go the 9-5 which is no slouch in the Saab heritage.

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