Electric cars are good for you, save money on gas
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only 70,000 miles and it already needs a new battery
Had to service the head gasket on my 1999 SAAB which has gone 120k miles and that cost $200 with planing the surfaces. That's the first major overhaul on any of the parts of that aluminium block engine.
Man, I always wanted a Saab. My cousin has a 9-5 from... 1998, I believe. When I was buying my current car about 2 years ago, I had my eyes on a nice 2007 9-3 with the 2.0t, but someone bought it before I had the chance.
I'm Swedish so they are abundant here as are the spare parts, custom kits and mechanical knowledge, custom ECU's etc.
In the current market you would pay $700 to 3k USD depending on condition for a 9-5 from 1998. There's literally a 2003 9-5 for $1500 on the market right now.
Well, I'm from Europe too, but quite a bit more south. The 9-5 is too big for me, I prefer smaller cars, and hatchbacks instead of sedans. My basic requirement is to easily fit 2x50l beer kegs and a tap in the back. But really, I bought a quite unusual car the last time around, which I still have and it's awesome, but the fuel economy is horrible (12l/100km of 98+ octane) and more importantly, it's so difficult to buy spare parts. The whole exhaust assembly was rusted to shit (the car is from 2007 and it was all original), so I needed a new one; Mazda quoted me a nonsensical price and then followed it up with "Oh yeah and it's not in stock anyway", so I had to get a Simons from Sweden, which is great but it took a month to get here. That sort of stuff. And since where I'm from, Saabs are very uncommon, it would be the same. So I guess I'm just gonna have to buy something painfully boring the next time around, like a Škoda Octavia - plenty of parts for those here.