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The V4 was a Ford motor. The first L4’s where designed by Triumph. The 9000 shares a platform with the Alfa 164. Any notion that Saab was a pure blooded unicorn before the NG900 is in compete opposition to historical facts. You can argue degrees of taint but claims that the lights when out in ’94 are silly.
But yet people say this all the time.
There are many on this board that love their NG900’s, their 9-5’s and their 9-3’s. I suspect there will be many coming that will love their 9-3SS’s. However at the same time there are many others that act as though it’s common knowledge that all the GM-ified Saabs are the equivalent to an ’83 Escort with a blown head gasket. If all the charges leveled at the GM-Saabs on this board are true then the NG900, 9-3, 9-5 and 9-3SS owners must be daft. But I don’t think that’s the case. I say something else at work here.
Here we have the example of Tommy’s Pizza. Been making pizza the same way with a dark thick Chicago-esque sauce for 14 years. Only place in town with sauce like that. Bob has been eat, and loving, Tommy’s since he moved to town 10 years ago. Then one day Tommy takes a trip to Naples and falls in love with the lighter fresh tomato taste of the marinara style of pizza. Once back at home Tommy replaces the hearty Chicago style with the lighter Neopolitan style. Bob’s reaction? Now he hates Tommy’s pizza. Tommy’s sold out. Tommy is this, Tommy is that. Why? Is Tommy’s pizza now bad? Maybe, maybe not. What has Bob angry is that he viewed him self to be above those that didn’t share his love of the thick sauce. Now with the thick sauce gone Bob feels like he has been dragged down to the lower classes of pizza eaters.
While not an air tight analogy I think the point is obvious. It’s snobbery, plain and simple. I feel many this board would rather see Saab die off that be dirtied by any platform sharing. No one on this board has any idea what the 9-2 WILL be when it goes on sale and yet it’s being ripped to shreds as the car that will kill Saab. It might be junk or it might be great, it matters not as their biggest nightmare is to boastfully tell someone, “I drive a Saab” only to have them respond back, “Aren’t those made by Subaru?”. That’s their fear and this fear comes out as anti-GM hate in many posts on this board. If Saab had been bought by Ford or Toyota or whoever they be scream at them. Better to have just let it die in the 90’s, and I have seen that said here on this very board before.
There’s nothing that can be done to reason with the snobs. With those who sit in traffic and feel a glow that they and only they are intelligent enough to seen the greatness of the C900 or whatever and be driving one, even though at the same time most of the others are on road couldn’t care less. They will post how GM has destroyed Saab’s reputation, product, reliability, etc. but what really was destroyed was their ability to feel superior to the guy at the light in a Saturn.
I wish they could be happy with the car they have that creates such strong feelings in them even if that car is no longer made. After all a Saab with proper maintenance might just outlast them, which is more than can be said for that thick sauce pizza Bob longs after.
This is of course just my opinion.
Saab : A history of selling out.
·Dropping the 2-stroke motor in favor of the mainstream 4-stroke design.
·Dropping the V4 for a more conventional inline design
·Moving away from the bubble shapes to the more traditional car look of the 99. Why? To make more money.
·Ruining the lines of the 99 to offer the Combi-Coupe in a blatant attempt to increase sales by appealing to those who wish for more versatile vehicles.
·Trying to make a little bank off the performance buyers by moving away from their history of Naturally Aspirated engines to offer a turbo.
·Moving away from their economy car roots by offering such unless luxuries as leather seats, power windows, power sunroofs, etc.
·Moving away from a strict safety stance to offer unsafe cars with no rollover protection at the behest of US dealers simply wanting to cash in on the rebirth of the convertible in the 80’s
·Sharing a platform with an outside company in a shameless attempt to both increase sales and save on development costs.
·Actually selling the company to GM in an effort to keep Saab from going under and thereby keep their jobs.
Why if you really think about it GM is in fact doing a very good job of maintaining Saab’s history of selling out to the mainstream to make a quick buck and since all Saab seems concerned with is making money then they deserve to be a GM division with all the Chevy truck based money making platforms that go along with it.
... well I feel better now ;)
Dinger
86 900T 251k
86 SPG 166k
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