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Technically....
Posted by David Ingram (more from David Ingram) on Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:24:21
In Reply to: When did GM start making Saabs?, Lee Harris, Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:55:11
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...your CDE is a GM product, at least in part -- if you "making Saabs" as GM being involved. There were a great many improvements made to the 9000 beginning in 1992 model year that emanate from Saab's partnership with GM.
I don't buy the beef about GM -- their parts, Ford's parts, Triumph's parts were all present in Saabs going back to the late sixties. The NG900 was the first model developed from a GM platform, of course, beginning with model year 1994. It has its good and bad points, like all the cars in the world. But that's not to say that if Saab had done everything itself that it would have done any better. Given its small size, it probably would have been worse!
Mainly, I think we can thank GM for an overall improvement in Saab build quality starting with 9000s of the late 80s and 90s. And the 9-5 is a darn fine car, GM genes or not.
It seems hard to get the 9000 driver into an NG900 or 9-3, but there seem to be happy faces after converting to the 9-5.
So, to answer your question (finally), the last "true" Saab-built car without GM involvement would have been the 1988 9000 and C900. Equipped, as they had been for years, with GM steering racks. If memory serves that model year was also one of their most trouble-prone.
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Posts in this Thread:
- When did GM start making Saabs?, Lee Harris, Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:55:11
- It is like gun control, Dan
, Sat, 17 Sep 2005 05:42:43 - You already have a GM..., turrbo
, Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:54:17 - The GM difference began to show..., bamaSAAB, Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:34:25
- Re: When did GM start making Saabs?, TML
, Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:46:22 - Technically...., David Ingram, Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:24:21 <-- Viewing This Message
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