Sweet Saabs

[adam73bgt]

So I've got myself a new daily and I've taken the plunge in Swedish turbo-ery with a Saab. Its not particularly retro so I probably won't bother doing a readers ride thread as there probably wouldn't be much interest I imagine

Its a 2001 Saab 9-3 Aero HOT







But its got me thinking, I've seen plenty of love on here for old Volvo's (and rightly so) but how much love is there for the other great Swedish carmaker?

So if you've got pics of any cool old Saab's or have one yourself I wanna see them!

Some random stuff to kick us off











Oh and if anyone knows of any good Saab forums or parts websites, I'd like to hear about those too

[swampy76]

Ooh that last picture makes me feel all funny

I've just got a saab but it's alot newer as the family hack
9 3 08my ttid 180 bhp aero

[adam73bgt]

Oh and I totally forgot to add this classic Saab which I followed home from work the other day

[HoTWire]

Finally a thread for this : onroaders.com/blog/1580/jens-saab-90-the-danish-way-through-sweden

[adam73bgt]

Thats a cool story and a pretty damn cool car, I never would have put rat look, wire wheels and Saab together in my head

[adam73bgt]

[tali100]

Sting owned this

[stealthstylz]

[mylittletony]

Jan 18, 2015 22:35:15 GMT adam73bgt said:

OOSH, that's niiiiiice

[welshpug]

is it the 230 or the rarer 250 bhp version?

a friend has an estate, 250bhp and a mild map, not sure what its running now though.

deceptively quick and very quiet things, with the right dampers and bushes can handke ok too, pretty comfy seats to boot, his has full heated leather, inc rear seats!

[adam73bgt]

Jan 19, 2015 8:57:38 GMT welshpug said:

is it the 230 or the rarer 250 bhp version?

a friend has an estate, 250bhp and a mild map, not sure what its running now though.

deceptively quick and very quiet things, with the right dampers and bushes can handke ok too, pretty comfy seats to boot, his has full heated leather, inc rear seats!

Mines a 205bhp, I know there was the Viggen version which had more power but I don't know if the 230bhp was the later 9-3?

It is amusingly fast, the turbo lag and kick is not very subtle, and it will pull all the way to redline without letting up. But as you say, its very comfortable as well, when you're not being silly its just a civilised, well specced family/rep mobile

[welshpug]

ahhh its a 9-3, derp! that'll be a 2.0, my friend has a 9-5 so a 2.3, that one is a strange thing, if you just give it a bit more toe it gathers speed at a surprising rate without any fuss or lag.

he bought it from another friend who's picked up a 9-3 like yours but black and VERY cheap, apparently a little rusty on a strut top and scary to pilot :lol:

[adam73bgt]

Ahh yes mines a 2.0. It is eerily quiet, very easy to be doing rather fast speeds without realising..

Ha the handling feels like its struggling with the power at the best of times, let alone with any rusty suspension components

[rmad]

[welshpug]

main thing is everything is mounted on bushes, I'm used to french stuff where steering racks and subframes are solid mounted as standard

[adam73bgt]

[craig1010cc]

I do love Saabs, and recently got this as my daily



Its the full fat 250BHP Aero and it is an amazing car. The way it gathers speed is scary, and it handles pretty well for a big old barge too whilst being soo comfy to drive. And they are stupidly cheap too.

[stefan]

That brown 99 on the gt40 style wheels is very cool

[EmDee]

[niwid]

Saw these two earlier on the retro cruisers thread

Jan 21, 2015 18:57:45 GMT WillCarter said:

Street Machine

Jan 21, 2015 21:22:38 GMT rmad said: