SAAB OG 9-5 HOT Wagon - The Family Haul-ass

Now we're talking...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9RVwyHsSiY

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Asfaltsmassa vet du! Bara att kladda!

My 2002 9-5 Aero Wagon.
Possibly not the smart purchase I had in mind, I do seem to be watching many Youtube vids on how to fix various small problems.
I do love it though and I did want one for while.

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Just for hippy, I've always wanted a Saab. I'm not a car person though (replacing windscreen rubbers is about it), so maybe sometime in the future I can get rich and buy an electric nevs station wagon.

I’ve always wanted a Saab 95 aero hot estate.

We out here @hippy

I do seem to be watching many Youtube vids on how to fix various small problems.

Saab life :)

Just wanted to reveal I've been following this thread with excitement. Joined the estate-life last year and can't see myself going back soon. I appreciate the thin but disparate performance/family wagon direction of this. Keep it up!

How thirsty do these become when you chip/remap them? I remember hearing horror stories about 9-3s doing 12-15mpg after a remap.

@hippy

British and middle aged.

I’ve always coveted Saabs

Here are some I’d have at the drop of a hat.

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Of those, only the first one, just for the quirk factor.

Back in my early 20s a girl I used to work with drove a green 96, she was very hot!
#csb

Jumping in on the "always wanted a Saab" train!

That being said, I've also always liked Volvos so who knows.

No love for the 9000 Turbo? My dad had one in the early/mid-90s. All the torque steer!

Saabs are cool.

My best friend had one of these in metallic green, looked like the village vicar should have been driving it. However this one had been fully modded by Abbot Racing by the previous owner.
https://www.abbottsaab.com/product-category/car-parts/saab-9000/engine-saab-9000/

And yes it did have the dump valve.

It was savagely quick, wasn’t great round bends but on motorways/dual carriageways it was a beast, when I drove it it was the car version of the Millennium Falcon.

9000's look like boats but can be turned into pretty good track toys as they have a relatively stiff shell. OG 900 turbo's look fast but have a lot of flex (unless you can find the sort after 2dr) and the gearbox really can't handle any significant increase in power.

As i generally drive like the village vicar my 900 T16 is perfect for me and is still the newest car i've owned.

The more i look at that the more i like it.

Would light up the tyres in third on a damp road. Animal.

Alas it succumb to oil starvation a week after fitting the retrofit kit to mitigate and changing the oil. Ate the turbo and I simply didn't have the money to fix at the time.
Can't find one for love nor money now. I'd buy one in a heart beat.

Got the bug for Swedes after this. V70 and currently an XC90.

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when I drove it it was the car version of the Millennium Falcon.

The whole dash was dripping in their fighter plane heritage. Driving that thing at night was just utterly delightful - glow all the things!

All depends on the mapper and what they've done in the different tables I guess. I guess UK Saab peeps run Noobtune, not sure how good their maps are tbh. If you go ape inside T7suite trying to map your own tables then I guess it can go horribly wrong.

Indeed.

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I'd definitely have the cargo bike over that Mondrian car.

If you don't veer across lanes when you put the hammer down you're not truly Saabin. :P