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I've told this story a million times before, but one of the cars I learned to drive on was my Dad's '86 Saab 9000 Turbo. He kept it up until 1993 with about 100k miles. NEVER had a problem with it, except for regular maintenance. The only car that has cost him less in 100k miles, is his Subaru Legacy Wagon.
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Sounds like you folks got lucky with one, just like my parents did with their '83 900S.
I learned to drive a stick on that, and I was quite ham-fisted for a while. It's a stroke of luck that the fragile 5-speed manual transmission didn't give up (the car had 160K miles when I started driving it, on the original tranny, and they've been known to go at a lot less!)
All that car needed was water pumps and some electrical stuff (heater controls, etc) from 70K to 170K.
-Sam