This is a great car: Its very new, i've only had it for 4 years and it was made as late as -85. Its fitted with all the new technology including manual choke. non-electrical windows and a saab concept called "sluggish steering", which basicly is the opposite to power steering. My car has a huge amount of power coming from its top-notch engine from 1985, whoich produces rougly 80BHP. This makes for a top speed of 143 km/h (slightly downhill, tailwind and 1km motorway). 0-100 is only 16 seconds, so you really get blasted back into the super ergonomic seats with the sport style seat covarages. It's also fitted with a modern top notch sound system which uses a very modern tape player, and the best thing of all is that of the 3 speakers working only 1 is blown. Only setback is the buzz you get when you have anything on the dashboard, also the lack of antenna makes the radio not take in very many channels is a slight minus. The fact that you have to hammer the dashboard in a certain way to get it not to buzz whilst listening to radio is also a new feature on my car which i am very proud of. It's also very economical, city driving wintertime it only(!) eats roughly 1.3 litres/10 km.
What i like most about it is the funny handling, the fact that you can make the tail slide(!!) after a gentle and almost impossible combination of high speed, going from a grippy surface to a slippy one, whilst doing a scandinavian flick and ending it to the left (not right) just when you go out of the grippy area. This makes the Saab 900 a true pro drivers car. It is also very fail safe and has only suffered 4 punctures.
The superb SAAB locking system from -85 makes it very hard to steal, besides the facts that you can start it with a glass stick if you want to. Fact is this is very handy, since i never use the real key i can 1) take the key i use(on the same key chain as the "real" key) out of the car while its running and lock it up from the outside and 2) throw the key to a friend if he has something in the trunk so he can open it while im dropping him off when i cba turning the car off and getting out. This might not seem very safe, but if you want to steal my car i guarantee you that you will fail drasticlly.
why?
i have modded my saab with the brilliant feature of a loose sitting earth cable to the battery (which in some case causes the power to go off whilst driving). So when i park, i just pop up the hood and take the cable off the battery and hide it behind the engine.
With the staggering price tag of 600e back in 2003 it is a bit expensive, i can admit that, but good cars costs money - remember that!
So why buy a bmw or merc when you can buy a -85 saab 900?
now you know why!
best car in the world
looking forwards for some info from you other guys about your "real"(lol) "rides"
peace
