<VV> Saabaru NO CORVAIR

[Jim Burkhard]

Bill-
I'm afraid John got it right, although your more esoteric 
alteratives are probably more interesting!  The Saab 9-2X 
Aero "Saabaru" is basically a very slightly up-trimmed but 
de-boyracered Subaru WRX.  It's supposed to cost a few $K 
more than the WRX, but sales were so absolutely dismal (a 
few thousand for all of 2005 ... makes 69 Vair volume look 
stout) last spring that they had a MAJOR fire sale for GM 
employees and suppliers.

They were selling them to us (brandy new, order whatever you 
want from the Saab USA supply, not just dealer stock) and 
they starting at a bit over $17 for the turbo one.  Mine 
wound up being a couple $K more because of options I wanted, 
but it was still only about $20K, almost $11K under list, a 
lot cheaper than the WRX. Hard to beat that for AWD and 14.5 
psig boost / 227 hp. Gotta find a set of 16" OEM wheels, 
though for snows ... the 17" 45 series Potenza RE01s that 
are on it are definitely a poor choice for winter.

Jim Burkhard


JVHRoberts at aol.com wrote:
 > Aaah, you got one of them there Saabarus...


Bill Elliott wrote:
 > Actually you have a slant 4 Triumph engine in there!!!
 > I've had all 4 "SAAB" engines... the 3 cylinder DKW, the
 >V4 Ford, and the slant 4 Triumphs... 8V and 16V turbo....of
 > course the final 16V version of the Triumph engine far
 > surpassed any Triumph version...


>> In a message dated 12/20/2005 9:54:34 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
>> burkhard at rochester.rr.com writes:
>> 
>>     Yeah? Well, my Saab has a flat-4...  Turbo.
>>     ;-)
>>     Jim Burkhard