Saab 9-3 Viggen. Its fast, it can haul a lot of crap, and even though there is always something broken, it always gets you where you need to go.

I say that all highways should be automated. Then when you leave the highway and enter a local road, the car would switch from auto to manual while slowing down on the off ramp. I mean really, who actually enjoys driving on the highway. All the real pleasure is had on the back roads.

COTD

Agreed. Studded snows FTW! No other single step can make as great a difference as having the proper tires on your car. The studs aren't absolutely necessary, but will help even more, if you can tolerate the noise.

Fixed the water pump on my '97 Saab 900 SET, along with other random bits, by myself in a parking garage.

Fixed the water pump on my '97 Saab 900 SET, along with other random bits, by myself in a parking garage.

Stay away! This car will infatuate you like a coke addled girlfriend. She will be so much fun to party with that you will keep pouring money into rehabilitation hoping in vain that this will be the last time. Every time you fix her, she will be so much fun that you cant fathom getting rid of her. Then, BAM!, something…

get a six point subframe brace and steering rack brace from genuinesaab and it will cure that scuttle shake and sloppy steering. As for the gutless 2.3 and sloppy auto, theres not much to be done. Should have bought a turbo 900.

My thoughts exactly!

WTF on all the hatchbacks these days being four door. All i have is a skinny girlfriend and a dog. I don't need four doors, I don't want four doors, but that's all anybody has to offer, except VW, which is only two doors cause the other two fell off. Stupid ford. Why cant they bring a two-door hatch model to our…

Agreed. This was the first thing I changed when I re-flashed my old Saab ecu. Changed it to come on about 1000rpm below red line. Also the 30 or so extra HP, that was nice too.

I disagree. I would say that the Mustangs V8 engine was the bad idea. Why anyone would trade faster and more fuel efficient twin turbo v6 for a slower thirstier V8 just because it has a "burble" is beyond me.

A definite hat tip to the crazy ruskis who race these things, but the real kudos go to the insane motherf*%#ers who are spectating from right beside the track.

I second that. I let a bone stock 03 WRX wagon with only 60k on the odo slip through my fingers just recently. Thing was immaculate inside and out. I went home to "sleep on it" like my GF suggested, and someone else was there first thing in the morning to buy it.

My friends father has one of these totally unmolested. He only drives it in the spring and fall, garages it all winter, and drives his 911 Turbo all summer. He never pays any attention to the car other than regular maintenance because he has this Ferris Bueller thing going with his 911.

I concur, except I have always been in love with the hatch civic of the same generation. When I had a 91 Si, I always wanted to renault the hell out of it and get a b16a and plop it into the back seats, then swap the awd system from the crappy civic wagon into the hatch. Presto! mid engined 200+hp AWD '91 Civic hatch.…

No no, Moose Magnet.

I really enjoyed the NFS 2 SE, and the original Hot Pursuit back in the day. They had great graphics and decent physics for the time. I admit I enjoyed underground 2. All the more recent NFS games have been very weak though.

Especially the interior. Loose fabric on the doors, looks like parts of the dash were spray painted, that wheel looks like he ripped it out of an arcade game.

I agree. Take the cars. But realize that you are really punishing Dad and Mom for buying kids that cant even really drive yet a supercar. Those kids didn't pay for squat.