davethesaabguy
dave the swede car guy
davethesaabguy

Join the club, coincidentally this became wide spread after the Supreme court ruling on Net Neutrality a few weeks ago. Netflix says everything is fine, the ISP's say everything is fine,...which means someone is lying. Either the ISP's need to increase peering or Netflix is purposely restricting bandwidth to certain

saturn is mostly opel/saab parts, where as the Alero is the Malibu/Grand Am

not only are they dopplegangers... they're the same car

you could also toss in the "Saab" 92x , a Subaru Imprenza wagon or the 97x aka the chevy equinox

Something to ponder... She is, most likely, more competent behind the wheel than 99.999% of the drivers in the world. VERY few people, male or female, could pilot a vehicle at 200+ in traffic confidently. She is no better or worse than the vast majority of drivers in ANY race series that NEVER win races. She's a

I was at the philly autoshow this week, they had the Encore from Buick but no Captiva's were on exhibit

When I think of Dodge Raider, I think of the early 90's version

You can maintain it easily, but yes, if you bin it, then you're screwed. But that's true of many of the 90's thru 2k cars, thanks to cash for clunkers. The used part biz has dried up, go older? you can find it, go newer? no problem. Try to find a rare part for a rare car from the time period? good luck. I was mostly

there are parts manufacturers that are still making parts, also most of the service bits since 94 are from other GM cars. With regular maintenance they do tend to last long than average

best soundtrack, ever

If for now other reason than all the cars are DRIVEN at some point.

From a PM course at a place I used to work at.

The Mrs, who doesn't really like low sports cars (see later) would love one of these, because it's a convertible that sits like a SUV and that works for her (occular albinism means that night glare in a low car is a real issue)

to go with the "What's my car worth? " grading standard.... It's collectiblity is a D, many, and not much of a demand, and a condition score of 4- because it may or may not all be there, using parts from a nonexistent manufacturer. You could SBC it, or sklyine inline 6 it, but it's a ton of money for a car without

in 3000 years, that thing is going to come looking for us, and it's going to be pissed

courtesy of GM they completely lost their way and ended up getting downsized out of existence. Great heart, quirky cars, and no clue how to capitalize on the fact that they were better than Volvo, and in the leader in FWD tech

I had just started driving when this gem came out, I remember lusting at it in the parking lot of the local VW dealer, it sat between a Rabbit 4 door and a Westy camper. Still want one today NP

For me.... in order

Philadelphia, and yep useless in snow here as well

which weighed twice as much