That's a good year (first year of the GM, owning and did pretty well) and a good price. lots of parts available a great net site saabnet.com, and safe. issues sound normal and easily fixable. I had a 900 Turbo, 84 model and an 80 something 9000 turbo, great cars....got the 9000 at 245k miles from a buddy who deployed to Iraq early in the war and drove it back to MN from NC. Think it's still running....http://saabnet.com/tsn/class/