Thread: Summer fun car! You decide! Jag, Audi or Saab???

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Originally Posted by taxexile

Monkey boy is just a sleazy forum stalker who has never made an interesting post in his life and the only thing he ever rides is his ladyboys slimy cock.

Hey, look what's on tax's mind.

What a surprise.

Originally Posted by armstrong

You do realise people know what you look like right?

Stalker . . .

Originally Posted by taxexile

ladyboys slimy cock.

You should meet up with Armstrong, he's into that kind of thing.

Originally Posted by Joe 90

The devils in the detailing....

Nice car . . . good choice. My old Viggen is still one of my favourite cars. Nicely different - sold my 323i to buy it all those years ago.

Originally Posted by panama hat

Stalker . . .

You should meet up with Armstrong, he's into that kind of thing.




Nice car . . . good choice. My old Viggen is still one of my favourite cars. Nicely different - sold my 323i to buy it all those years ago.

Claims I'm stalking, mentions me from out the blue. Hmm.

Originally Posted by armstrong

Claims I'm stalking

It's not a 'claim', it's a fact. Now stop ruining a motoring thread.

Originally Posted by panama hat

It's not a 'claim', it's a fact. Now stop ruining a motoring thread.

Well stop mentioning me randomly then you daft [at][at][at][at].

Originally Posted by armstrong

daft [at][at][at][at]

Originally Posted by panama hat

Now stop ruining a motoring thread.

Nice . . .

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Saab 9-3 Aero Convertible

Saab 9-3 Aero Convertible | Shed of the Week
Drop-top shed the Swedish way
By Tony Middlehurst / Friday, 29 April 2022 / 51 comments

If Shed waits long enough at the village bus stop, a bus will eventually turn up. That's what he likes to tell himself at any rate, even though the last timetable that's pasted up in the shelter is from 2007.

Nobody has actually seen a bus in the village since then, when forgetful old Mrs Pillington broke out of the home to go to the shops in the big town ten miles away and hasn't been seen since. Turns out the bus company closed down the service on the day she went and no return bus was provided. Maybe she's still waiting in the town.

Anyway, if you wait long enough in the sub-£1,500 basement that we call Shed of the Week a high-powered Saab will eventually turn up. Unlike Mrs Pillington's return to the village that's a stone-cold certainty. It's getting harder and harder to ignore these Saabs because, while the prices of the humblest forms of motorised transport imaginable have now risen to king's ransom levels, those of fast Saabs remain resolutely stuck in the past.

There are two reasons for this. One, fear of the bork, and two, fear of the tax, which can often be more than the cost of mending the bork. Shed has reported on so many of these hot Saabs - he's dug up three 200hp-plus 9-3 Aeros since last September - that he's now got saabophobia, a rare complaint in which sufferers actually lose consciousness after a couple of minutes spent listing all the ways in which a sporty Saab from the 2000s might ruin someone's day/month/life.

If you're immune to that particular virus and would like to learn more about these dangerously tempting vehicles you'll find everything you need to know, plus a lot of what you really don't want to know, in the text (and perhaps more usefully in the forums) relating to either of the write-ups on those earlier two 9-3 Aeros. The first one in September last year was a 2003 saloon with 190,000 miles on it but it looked like it had done 19,000. That was heartening for anyone thinking about flopping less than a grand onto the dealer's table for it. On the forum, Earl of Hazzard hazarded the suggestion that £80 spent at Noobtune would result in a stealthy upgrade to 250hp, adding to its poky sleeper allure.

The second 9-3 Aero from January of this year was an earlier-generation specimen from the year 2000. It wasn't perfect by any means. Nevertheless it had the air of a car that had been well but fairly used by a knowledgeable owner and seemed well worth considering at £850.

The 9-3 Aero you're now peering at in a perhaps slightly skeptical fashion is the youngest of the three , though you'd never guess that from the raggedy state of it. Shed is showing it to you because he heard the first cuckoo earlier this week, an event that always prompts him to (a) check the classifieds for convertibles and (b) get his shotgun out. Raggedy it may be, but we are told (and shown in the pictures) that the ragtop works perfectly, or as well as can be expected at least.

Although it looks like it's received as much love and care as would traditionally be meted out to a belligerent and persistent mosquito, this car has no major skeletons in its cupboard if we go solely by what we see in the MOT history. We know nothing about what might have gone on between those MOT tests of course. All we can tell you is that the test history is not scary and that it has just passed a new one with nothing more than a worn rear tyre, a minor exhaust blow and a wobbly battery on the defects and advisories list.

Try to imagine the half-leather cabin that hasn't been photographed, then all you need to do is avert your gaze from the bashed-up chin spoiler, the ground-down alloys, the dent behind the driver's door and the black stuff besmirching its flanks - hopefully that's dirt and not oil - just blank all that stuff out and ignore the high-for-a-Saab price of £1,497 as they'll surely take less than that and... and... well, then you've got a 210hp convertible with 160,000 miles on it. Hey, we don't make the sheds here, we just show them to you. Fill your boots with Postcrete and commence to kickin'.

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Tyre Smoke
Posted 8 hours ago
Excellent choice of budget drop top. Love a Saab.
S17Thumper
Posted 8 hours ago
I like these although… bulkhead go brrrrrrrrrrrr
Earl of Hazzard
Posted 8 hours ago
S17Thumper said:
I like these although… bulkhead go brrrrrrrrrrrr
I believe that's only for the first gen 9-3 - there's a strengthening brace that can be retro fitted.
biggbn
Posted 8 hours ago
S17Thumper said:
I like these although… bulkhead go brrrrrrrrrrrr
Not on this gen.
sjabrown
Posted 8 hours ago
I may be an outlier but I just don’t see anything attractive in these Saabs even as they remain in the ever diminishing pool of MoT’d roadworthy vehicles under £1500.

Interesting point on the price, as the older classic Saabs (96, 99) appear relatively affordable compared to many other manufacturers.
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Saab 9-3 Aero Convertible | Shed of the Week | PistonHeads UK

Originally Posted by Stumpy

Honestly, unless extremely rare no car is an "investment". They all depreciate to the point of being worth nothing or very little. However the term investment can be an investment in fun and not have any monetary value.

In the last 2 years , used car prices have been going up. My Corvette is worth more than I paid for it now and even my used Silverado is worth more than I paid for it. How long will this lunacy last , who knows.

Interesting and amusing read that Tax, cheers for posting.

Starting to get a tan on my egg nog with this damn fine recent weather...



The ICE is tuned in and the bass is kickin' and a ravin' like Pete Tong..

Trouble is Chit, everyone who looks at a bloke driving a convertible just thinks one thing, "what a cvnt"

Originally Posted by malmomike77

Trouble is Chit, everyone who looks at a bloke driving a convertible just thinks one thing, "what a cvnt"

Oh well, I'm not bothered.
They're just jealous.
I like it so fvck em, crank up the volume.

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Oh well, I'm not bothered.
They're just jealous.
I like it so fvck em, crank up the volume.

Only ribbing Chit.

Three points:

a. Buy a convertible in the three months Dec to Feb - cheaper

b. How is the mid life crisis going?

c. The "i'm on the rebound" thread needs an update.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

Only ribbing Chit.

Three points:

a. Buy a convertible in the three months Dec to Feb - cheaper

b. How is the mid life crisis going?

c. The "i'm on the rebound" thread needs an update.

a. Now you tell him…

b. *cringe*

c.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

How is the mid life crisis going?

Sweet as a nut mate

150 BHP and only £275 per year insurance fully comprehensive.

Even has heated cream leather seats to get matron in the mood

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Even has heated cream leather seats to get matron in the mood

has she given you first aid yet?

Originally Posted by malmomike77

has she given you first aid yet?

I'm looking forward to my bed baths in my declining years if I survive my midlife crisis.

Tbf I think my midlife crisis is well deserved considering what I've had to deal with over the past several with the ex and theres a fair bit of catching up to do by comparison

Originally Posted by cyrille

Hey, look what's on tax's mind.

What a surprise.

Stooping to ant/willy level comebacks are we

Originally Posted by DrWilly

a. Now you tell him…

b. *cringe*

c.

It beats a midlife crisis centered around ladyboys.

Originally Posted by Backspin

It beats a midlife crisis centered around ladyboys.

midlife? Keep making up shit. And btw how’s Emma? Are you still sending’her’ money each month?

Originally Posted by Backspin

midlife crisis

I was under the impression KW was in her sixties.

Originally Posted by Joe 90

I was under the impression KW was in her sixties.

Yes. His was probably in the heady days of the mid 2000's.

Originally Posted by Backspin

Yes. His was probably in the heady days of the mid 2000's.

Do you mean when you were showing off on ‘big bikes’ and attaching yourself to flabby hookers and unbelievable P4P ladyboys?

Must have been ‘heady days’ for a teenager like you.