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The price often indicates volume of production - one reason that Honda and Toyota are so reliable and so inexpensive is that they produce hundreds of thousands of the same car around the world. Even though SAAB has been making the same 9-5 for ten years, my guess is that in ten years it does not equal one year's production of the Honda Accord. Higher price may therefore indicate a specialty car with lower production runs.
The other factor is engineering and supplier management. BMW seems to be the best, at present, at those capabilities. SAAB seems terrrible at supplier management - e.g. several generations of DICs that continue to fail - and the list goes on. SAAB seems to specialize in going almost nowhere, as opposed to Japanese incremental improvement in parts and relaibility. Many others - Audi, for example - suffer the same symptoms.
That is one reason that I buy used SAABS and hope for a good one.
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Posts in this Thread:
- cel 1312 and 1334.....WTF only 50k on the car....., earthbrown, Sun, 8 Jun 2008 18:45:55
- Thanks for re-posting my question from earlier today, Wasabi, Sun, 8 Jun 2008 19:22:51
- just had this code tonight, and was angered by the, earthbrown, Sun, 8 Jun 2008 19:34:59
- Good Luck, DE , Mon, 9 Jun 2008 07:23:18
- I have to disagree...., Wasabi, Mon, 9 Jun 2008 07:39:31
- Re: I have to disagree...., DE , Mon, 9 Jun 2008 08:33:09
- Re: I have to disagree...., jpb in me, Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:04:09
- sticker price = longevity/reliability, Aero'ed, Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:21:08
- Sticker price not indication of reliability, LesH, Mon, 9 Jun 2008 13:58:01
- YES, YES and YES, Wasabi, Mon, 9 Jun 2008 11:23:48
- Re: sticker price = longevity/reliability, jpb in me, Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:38:22
- Re: just had this code tonight, and was angered by the, Aero~0657, Sun, 8 Jun 2008 23:09:19
- Get 2....you'll need them, Wasabi, Sun, 8 Jun 2008 19:41:33
- Re: cel 1312 and 1334.....WTF only 50k on the car....., Allan, Sun, 8 Jun 2008 19:11:44
- Mileage does not seem to matter, it can happen...., TKC, Sun, 8 Jun 2008 18:57:50
- Re: cel 1312 and 1334.....WTF only 50k on the car....., Jas, Sun, 8 Jun 2008 18:54:05
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