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Yes, for a bunch of reasons
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Posted by Ari [Email] (#2847) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Ari) on Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:47:20 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: saab = good commuter car?, johnc, Tue, 17 Apr 2001 08:16:08
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This comes from experience with a 80 mile (round trip) commute -
The Saab is a comfortable car, which reduces fatigue. Long drives can be tiring, especially at the end of the day. Fatigue leads to inatentiveness, which leads to accidents.
Next, Saabs are great bad-weather cars. I don't know where you live, but I'm in Connecticut, and we get snow in winter and heavy rains in summer. A car that keeps you warm and dry, that handles well in foul weather, that actually defrosts windows (unlike some other cars I know) can make that foul weather day a bit less white-knuckle.

My last reason is a bit of a rebuttal to EGD. Saabs are safe. If you spend lots of time and lots of miles on the road, your chances of an accident increase. My favorite motto:

"If you're going to hit something, hit it in a Saab"

For some reason, the Saab marketers haven't picked that one up yet. I hit a patch of ice on the way into work one morning and slammed head-on into a bridge abuttment with my '86 900T. When we came to a stop, my passenger and I undid our belts, opened the doors, and stepped out. Yes, the car was totalled, but we were unhurt.

It may make sense to put the miles on a 'junker', and keep your Saab nice. But if we'd been in my passengers' Honda, I don't think we'd still be around. I like my heirs, but I don't intend on keeping my cars nice just for them.

My solution - I have a nice Saab, and my 'junker' is an old 9000. Safety first.

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