I've worked on too many Saabs to ever buy one. An old guy(probably younger than I am now) used to stop at the gas station I worked ta after high school with his 2 stroke Saab. He get out of the car, toddle around to the right rear and dump a can of oil into the fuel tank, then I'd pump 7 gallons of gas into it and shake the car side to side for him. Then he'd start it up and ring-ding-ding away spewing chin saw fumes. The V4 Saab 96's were pretty easy to change clutches, the Sonnet sports cars had a steel rib running the length of the car but the rest of it was fiberglass, including the lift point that supported the car I was working under. A later model- a 99,I think- used a British Layland engine with the oil pan built into the transmission, it was quite an ordeal to remove the seized up engine without destroying the trans, too. I had to punch holes in the block to unbolt the convertor. The ignition switch was located on the floor where people often spilled drinks into it. Two of my friends had Saabs and bad mouthed GM for buying the company, but if GM didn't buy Saab it would have folded years sooner. I don't understand why it's fashionable to bash American products. Who'd want something built by lazy,stupid American workers like us? Actually, I would.