Saab: Ok, can somebody please tell me the advantages and disadvantages of turbo?

nph wrote: 

Saab is one of the better cars. In general I split the quality into
three parts: Engineering, manufacturing and service.

You can have cars that have fine engineering, but the manufacturing
quality is patchy. I found that was the case with a Ford Fiesta
(My first new car in 1978) It required a new gearbox under warranty,
and the read window frames had some strange sticky gooey to fill in
gaps (presumably quality control

Then I had the Fiat Croma (sister car to the 9000). Again nice
engineering design, but the interior plastic panels warped and the
car squeaked a lot. The servicing was poor, I often have to visit
the FIAT garage several times to fix a problem.

My 10 year old Saab 9000 is much better of course, I'm impressed by
the attention to detail, it is a joy to open the bonnet on this car.

However, as they say: Past results does not guarantee future
performance... In particular, there is now a new requirement that
all manufacturers are required to recycle their cars when eventually
disposed of. This has led to the use of cheaper plastics materials
e.g. the new 2004 VW Golf. It may be OK, but you may loose the
quality feel inside the car.

So shop around in showrooms, read magazines, consumer reports etc.

Peter wrote:
:: Thanks for the info.
:: Can you please post a link to that survey in Scandinavia?
:: (I speak Swedish so it is ok if it is not English)

Here you go Peter:
http://www.lgi.dk/homepage/pdf/autoindex/sid14-17%20Autoindex.pdf

:: Dallas (Texas) weather just screams out for a convertible!

Well, I'm not a bit jealous - with 5 cm. of snow and freezing temp's
here.....

Cheers!