Comments on: 2008 SAAB 9-3 Vector Review

By: T600

T600 — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:32:10 +0000

lol

could/nt find anybody to buy it.

dead and buried

By: otto au

otto au — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:01:44 +0000

That reply F-0, was GOLD!

By: FrugalOne

FrugalOne — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:38:14 +0000

Myke Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Frugal, GM have finally started to invest money into SAAB, I doubt they have any intention of selling them off.Ford too, I believe, have no intention of selling Volvo.

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Ahhhhhh, Myke, the irony of the date you posted, and i WAS CORRECT [AGAIN] on both counts….

F-0 WRONG?I think NOT!

Cheers,

F-0

By: OMG

OMG — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:59:38 +0000

Saab are in receivership now. That is the end result of years of making cars that had poor resale due to poor marketing technique. They brought this on themselves. How ridiculous offering a 25% discount. All it menas is that they overpiced the car in the first place.

By: John Law

John Law — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:46:15 +0000

For several months I have studied the market of European mid-size cars with a view to purchase, and at the end of the day I am buying a SAAB 9-3. I am undoubtedly prejudiced, my decision having been influenced by past experience of the ownership of three SAABs, a 900 and two 9-3s. The first two SAAB’s I had for 5 years each. The latest one I have had for 8 years. The entire sum of repairs and defects in these cars has been a clutch (the 900) and two batteries, one each for the 9-3′s.
Mr Brogan’s review of the diesel engined 9-3 is generally positive but why “Climate Control, Cruise… do a fine job considering their design age”? What does that mean ? If the thing does a fine job what else is needed ?
And “outdated dashboard” ?

By: Duck

Duck — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:08:28 +0000

SAAB GM need to step up…….quickly! The design is dating alot and the dash is too old looking. I said in other posts of that saabs, the dash reminds me of VT/VX’s Commodores, but ive changed my mine it looks similar to VR/VS Commodore dashes with it flat dash face but curvy dash. Its main rival VOLVO is a big step a head. And i forget to mention RESALE! They need to fix that too!

By: GT MAN

GT MAN — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:05:52 +0000

I agree with Phillip when he notes GM don’t really know what to do with SAAB. We have had five SAAB’s over the years and the original SAAB SCANIA built vehicles were superb; A+ build quality, cheap to service & run, reliable, safe – oh you all know the story. Our current SAAB is a GM owned version with appalling build quality; we have had broken seat adjusters, broken window washer jets (?), broken dash switches and print graphics that have worn off the switches. We have only done 32,000 klm’s and it is our second car so it does not get a lot of use. SAAB have not advanced and the newer SAAB service departments aren’t interested in the marque. I guess GM wanted their turbo technology and safety advances; beyond that they might as well not bother because the current SAAB is a glorified Holden! Who wants that?!

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:14:44 +0000

The 9-5 review is currently being edited, stay tuned!

By: B///M3

B///M3 — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:43:13 +0000

Its gone back to lookinkg like the 9-5 which has been on the market for the last 100 years. The acceleration is also pathetic…11 seconds!

By: TP has never back up the 25% Diesel claim

TP has never back up the 25% Diesel claim — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:33:14 +0000

Same engine with a proper gearbox is fine. Autos for peeps who think they know how to drive. I managed fuel consumption at 5.6′s over a recent 800k drive with the same engine ia vectra.

Yep Saab should be doing there own thing perhaps with the exception of engines.