Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:35:02 GMT From: James Sweet <jamessweetnospamail.com> Subject: Re: saab newbie w/automatic transmission question
jimwms wrote: > Thanks for the info. I'm in the process of learning the basics of the > car. It's not slipping...just hesitating. It makes me feel like > grabbing the gear shift and shifting into third or fourth. I would say > the biggest disappointment with this car is the 3-speed automatic. But > I don't plan to take any long trips with it, so I want to hold onto it > if I can. Otherwise, the car is just about flawless. > > Jim > There may not be anything really wrong with it, there's a reason there's very few automatic 900's on the road anymore, I suspect they were not very popular right from the start. It's one of those things that was clearly an afterthought, the car was obviously designed from the ground up with a manual gearbox in mind.