yea saabs looks are comming around but no thanks

 

We just had this old 86 900 16V come in on a trade this thing is rotten but one of the guys her bought it for $40 haha to use as a field car he took it in the back on saturday and I guess this thing still halls a$$ for $40 you just can't go wrong but you look under the hood and its all backwards the belts are at the back of the engine the tranny is in front of the engine haha wtf were they thinging damm swedins

 

i think saab def uped up there game

 

cl, are you joking?! the tranny is seriously in the front???? that's def one the most ridiculous things i've heard in a while. so you basically have to pull the motor to replace a belt....that's hella cool, i'm getting one tomorrow.

 

I've only seen this car from the outside it is just what i heard from the guy that bought it

 

jd, just because gm bought them doesn't mean anything's changed as far as production. i'm pretty sure the whole assembly process hasn't changed at all, nor has the location of their factories. it's not like they're putting chevy engines or any other gm components on it, they just own it...not that chevy is a bad make. i have an 89 blazer with 270k miles on the original motor.

 

not 100% but from what i've heard the from my father he works over at saab retired driver but he was talking to the tech's and that motor is a GM built design and it is all trouble I don't have any facts on this it is just word of mouth

 

if GM owns them , then GM mgmt. makes their decisions (especially when it would come to $$) ..
so if John (I build crap) Chevy says "save $50 per car and put in that crappy part instead of the quality one" (a very GM mindset), then Saab will do just that..

look their looks may have come around but it's stil a vehicle built buy GM ....
and if you've seen anything on the news recently about GM, they are in SERIOUS financial problems... there is NO WAY i would buy a vehicle being produced by not only an American car company that has been notorious for producing crap, but one that is in financial hardships at that....
your asking for a lemon