My only personal experience with SAAB's is with a "classic" 900, when a SAAB was still a SAAB, not a rebadged Opel. The newer GM-based cars can be problematic, just look at the Cadillac Catera, another GM-of-Germany import...nobody likes those.

Shame on me for saying it, but I've had great luck with Korean cars, Kia and Hyundai, as have several members of my family...they are appliances, but like good appliances, they just hum along doing what they are designed to do. There's no emotional involvement but you know they'll start in the AM.

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2002 Ford ZX2
2 x 2013 Honda Civics