Don’t forget a completely new avionics suite to bring it up to regulatory compliance- 8.33 kHz spacing on the radios, ADS-B, TCAS...

Loads of fun.

CP, but I would most assuredly NOT want a Chrysler Sebring.

I feel like this comment was the main point of the article, and you were just lying in wait like an angler fish...using a glowing orb to lure some poor schmoe into taking your bait.

Alfa Romeo 164.
Not at all reliable, but with its low, low purchase price you’ve got plenty left over for repairs/maintenance/a couple parts cars.

“You will blow the trans, it’s just a question of when. You can even do some track events in it.”

 There may be some correlation there.

Oh dear lord. My parents bought one of these (‘85 model, like the ad) with the Iron Duke 4 and not a whole lot else, new, when I was 10.

My dad, who has always been a “buy new and drive it into the ground” type, dumped it after three years, 45,000 miles, three alternators, and three sets of brakes. I remember him…

David Tracy writing about wrenching on three Saabs simultaneously would be a thing of Kinja beauty.

Or, alternately, you could do a little internet research and find the 9-5 was made in fairly large numbers virtually unchanged from the 1999-2009 model years, a good portion of it was bog-standard GM parts, and those that weren’t are still readily available, and they’re cheap enough that you could buy a whole other…

One of the cool things about Saabs is that they managed to be fun and engaging despite being front wheel drive.

My 2002 9-3 HOT was more fun to drive than my e39.

There, I said it.

You’re thinking of the 9-2X.

Real Saab.

That second set of dials inboard of the heated seat controls, semi-hiding behind the shifter? That means that this does have the ventilated seats.

NP, by the way. This is a car I would (following a full service/maintenance update, of course) put my teenage driver daughter in.

My one memory of the Tempo was that a middle/high school friend’s mom had one- I’m not sure if it was the four cylinder or the V6; either way, it WAS a five speed manual. I remember this because my friend’s mom granny shifted the absolute shit out of that car. I don’t think it ever revved past 2,000 rpm once in its…

Quad Cities?

You’re going to have to show your work on this one, I’m afraid.

Yeah, but on the flip side, otherwise nice cars are EASILY let down by an interior beneath that car’s station. Case in point (of COURSE it’s a GM): The Cadillac ATS (my images are getting kinja’d, but everyone here can use Google and see my point.)

Hell, the Mark VII, too.

I voted CP only because Chrysler reliability, but it’s amazing what a 300C front clip does to improve the looks.

So say we all.

Judging by how often I actually see it out of the garage...yeah. He probably does.

I’m going NP on this one, but only because my neighbor’s got a dark-blue-over-tan example that looks like it rolled off the showroom floor last week; it still has presence and exudes class in a way that current Benz models just can’t quite pull off.