“As far back as the late 60’s they had HEATED drivers seats!”
- My mother drives a French car, a Peugeot.
It has heated seats, but after 15 months they stopped working.
No biggie as long as the retailer could’ve fixed it. But they claim they can’t:D (- and you Peugeot guys want to sell cars here in Sweden!?)
I doubt my mother will buy another Peugeot.
My first Car was A 74 Saab 99LE, GM has pretty much destroyed Saab. If they can find a buyer and return them to their roots they should have a chance
I bought a new 1960 SAAB 93B right after I got married. It was a real oddball for that time, a 750cc-3 cylinder 2-cycle engine, front wheel drive, unibody construction with sheet metal twice as thick as Detroit cars, front bucket seats that made into a double bed with the back seat folded down, and several other features that were oddities at that time.
That was before self service gas stations, and on several occasions pump jockeys refused to put a quart of the SAAB 2-cycle oil in the gas tank before pumping gas as my wife requested. They were sure she was mistaken about where the oil went in, and she had to do it herself. It got 35-38 mpg on the stretches of I-75 and I-95 that were built by that time, and 28-30 mpg in town. Not too shabby even by today's small car standards, and it topped out at around 70-80 mph depending on running against a headwind or a tailwind. I drove it as our #2 family car until 1965 and as my go-to-the-office car until 1971 when it failed the FL safety inspection. Just the needed parts alone that had to come from Sweden would have cost more than the entire car was worth.
I'm sure all this is waaaay more than anyone ever wanted to know about old SAABS. I get started talking and don't know when to stop about some of the dozens of cars I have owned over the years since the 1930 Model A Ford roadster that I bought for $95 cash and drove to high school in the early 1950s. In case anyone hasn't ever noticed, old geezers love to talk about old cars they owned way back when, so don't get us started and you won't have to listen, or read in this case.