Dude, get another handle please. There is also a Dean_S on this site as well. Click on the 'more from Dean' link and have a look.

Saab did make soem blunders with the suspension. The issue might be your acceptance of the facts.

The original NG900 suspension was so bad that much of it was rebuild in the field with new control arms and sway bars. That was very expensive for Saab. Some vehicles had the shakes and new tires and rebalancing was not sufficient to eliminate the problem.

The improved suspension is still a bit squirrely while accelerating, and this gets much worse if the pavemnent is rutted at all.

The problems all have a common issue. Things that are not rigid. The subframe distorts, which is minor. The two contol arms are coupled with a hollow oil filled rubber bushing. The steering rack is mounted to the firewall with rubber bushings and the firewall is a large cookie sheet which deflects under load.

The original steering racks were larger diameter cast aluminum and mounted with steel straps and rubber bushings. In mid 1995 these were switched to fabricated steel units which are much smaller in diameter. Saab did not want to change the mount point in the firewall or the steel straps. They just told a drafter to draw up rubber mounts that were thicker to take up the gap. So even the Viggen has a steering rack floating in these huge rubber mounts. So the defelection of the rack was greatly increased by this change. The old racks were better.

The classic 900's had the steering rack directly mounted on the sub frame, hard bolted. This eliminate the deflection of the rubber mounts, firewall and the chassis as a whole from letting the position of the rack from floating around relative to the other steering geometry mouning points.

So which is better? I have never driven a C900. But the NG900 has obvious flaws and these have been well understood by those who have installed components that reduce the deflections on the stock design. Could Saab have done a better job? No question!

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