Drivers of other Marque's obviously have different opinions on vehicles in general. Why do they not like front wheel drive...maybe it's because they don't know how fun it is to know how. Can you blame them, it's pretty easy to drive a RWD vehicle. Pretty much everyone can sit in a RWD vehicle and speed race pretty much however/wherever they want. Maybe they don't know that the Viggen has over 250 ft/lb torque...stock from the front wheels. That's why the average leigh person is automatically inducted into a class on *how* to pilot it. Spirited driving in a FWD car isn't as simple and generic as doing burnouts in a RWD vehicle. Does this make the Saab owner a snob...nah, it just makes us different. Know many other people that drive Saab's? "Hell no, it's made by Swedes...what do Swedes know about making a vehicle". Well, lets see. According to crash tests, we have a much better chance of surviving an accident. Not because of 8 airbags, but because our cars aren't hot-glued sheets of plastic and tin cans. It's called structural integrity...and let's face it, a majority of Marque's today don't share this concept. What else do the Swedes know about building vehicles...according to C/D (11/01), one damn fine supercar. The Koenigsegg CC V, which Saab has lent a hand building a Trionic engine management system for, is being built as a would be successor for the almighty Mclaren F1. Proving Swedish ingenuity is lacking in no respect, the Koenigsegg is a mid-engine RWD vehicle, like most other super cars. The powerplant itself is a supercharged/intercooled V-8 that displaces 655bhp
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