Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:18:35 GMT From: Paul Halliday <pjghnopsamyonder.co.uk> Subject: Re: It's official - Saab on a deroute.....
in article 3f9ed27c$0$29352$edfadb0fnopsamd15.news.tele.dk, Henrik B. at saabnopsamdsl_nospam_.dk wrote on 28/10/2003 20:33: > Paul Halliday wrote: > :: Follow me through here. The first 9-3s were poor. They were just re- > :: badged 900 GMs. > > Not true. Okay, care to expand on this? > Saab have since managed to build a good car around > :: GM standard parts and I am a serious fan of the new 9-3 and, > :: especially, 9-5 models. We've not seen that kind of quality since > :: the C900. I'm sure we'll see that again with these 1.8 NA engines. > > Nope! The problem is, that Saab hasn't had their hands on the engine at all. > It's a 100% Opel-engine, mounted directly into the car, as it comes from > R¸sselsheim. So you'll get a great handling car, but with the poor > engine-quality of an Opel. Just as well as Opel puts a 100% Saab engine into > the Vectra (the forementioned 175 Bhp turbo). Why don't Opel/Vaux use the Saab turbo engine in their Opel/Vaux offerings? Or, do they? I only really know UK cars. I still like the newer Saab offerings and think they're starting to get things back to the quality they used to have (albeit in a mass-produced sense). Having been to the Saab museum, the one thing that really struck me about the Saab heritage was the care that the people (right
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