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moving on is a reality that we all have to consider... Posted by Snowmobile [Email]  (#686)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Snowmobile) on Fri, 12 Jul 2013 02:52:25
In Reply to: Re: Now I get it, DE  [Profile/Gallery]
, Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:32:40
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I do occasionally wonder what we will do if NEVS does not succeed in resurrecting the brand (while I'd like to be optimistic, I am not counting on their success). Volvo, Audi, BMW (and maybe Merc) top the list for me also. They are all fine cars with slightly different approaches, but none quite fit us quite as well as Saabs.
I guess for me a face-lifted 9-3ss vs an A4 sedan vs a BMW 3 series sedan fill a very similar need, but the Saab is more familiar ergonomically to me, so that's probably why I would prefer it to the others (priced equally) even though they are fine cars, better in many ways. If the 4 and 6 cylinder 9-3's were the same price, I'd get the 4. I completely understand why neither of those statements would fly in the general marketplace (and why it didn't, hence the discounting). That's why I say SAAB needs to do something different than just offer a value proposition on a sedan. If the 9-3ss was shaped more like the og9-3, I'd like it even more.
I was really interested in that 9-3X that was out briefly. If that or the A4 Avant were equally priced, again, I'd probably opt for the Saab. The Avant is very nice (will the A4 Allroad make it here?) and 2011 is bigger, but I have a friend who owned an earlier Avant (05/06?) and I found it pretty small. Nice car, but very expensive to maintain, much more went wrong than in our 9-5 even though theirs was still under warranty, and ours is farther out now than the A4 ever got before they traded it on a BMW. Part of the equation there was not having a good Audi independent locally for once it went off warranty - he was afraid he'd get soaked on the repairs. But quite a nice car. We'd probably consider one if Saabs were not an option and if we could find a suitable tech. With any car, a lot depends on year, and I think the Audis have been steadily improving. They've kept up technologically whereas Saab was left to flounder. I'm not sure which year/variant 9-5 you owned, but our 2004 is pretty darn nice. Still feels like a new car. Hard to imagine it's almost 10 years old now! I'm hoping we won't have to go car shopping again any time soon. NG 9-5 (though technologically improved vs og9-5), didn't suit us: too big. I would be more concerned owning one of those now than the 2004. Not enough of them sold for the parts and service knowledge to be sufficiently available (again, that car was a value proposition head to head vs A6 and 5 series sedans instead of a modern 9000 style hatch - I knew from the first images of that car that it would not sell well... even if 2010 Saab had the financial foundation of Toyota or VW).
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