Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:26:21 +0200 From: Hallo <horspowernopsamnl> Subject: Re: Just ordered a 9-5
You bought the right car!! I'm driving a Saab 9-5 2.3e now for 1 1/2 year. I'm living in the Netherlands and a Saab driver for more than 20 years now. This is really the best car Saab ever made!! So...good choice and very safe indeed. Regards Ronald The Netherlands Paul Panetta schreef: > Well, after looking for a few months and test driving lots of different > cars here in Oz I ended up going for a Saab 9-5. Why ? Plenty of room > for the 3 kids in the back. Plenty of things that open and close. A > nice 2.3 turbo engine. I thought the Alfa-Romeo 156 was a great car to > drive but couldn't bring myself to squeeze the 3 kids into the back (and > here you can't get a 3-point center seat belt). The Mercedes C200 was a > classy looking car but under-engined and not a safe as Saab according to > Euro NCAP tests and a little more expensive and not as roomy (again no > 3-point center belt). Other cars I looked at were a Peugeot 406, VW > Passat, BMW 323, Honda Accord. In the end the Saab made the most > sense. So I bought it ! > > ...Regards ... Paul P.