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Guy at uni had a 9000 Griffin tuned to over 400bhp. Absolutely hilarious amounts of torque steer. Gears slowly disappeared from the box, until at one point he only had 2nd and 4th. Still drove it as the engine could easily pull away in those gears. 

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Always had a big thing for the 9000 but never quite got round to owning one. 

A Carlsson salon in red still looks a nice place to be on a winter motorway at 3am blasting about at silly speeds. 

No doubt now looking at £10k for something that was £800 ten years ago!!! 

Still I shouldn't complain at I bought my cossie for £2800 in 2006 with a year's mot and fully functional, that's appreciated slightly* since then. ....

 

 

But it doesn't work anymore 🤣🤣🤣

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11 hours ago, Jamie said:

It's more money than anything. I've not got 3k for porka at the mo. 1500 is my limit for a second motor 

Fair enough but bear in mind that the Mazda will remain worthless for the foreseeable future where as prices of good Boxsters are starting to creep up. Both will probably require equal amounts of investment to keep going. I had my Boxster for four years and I would classify it as one of the best cars that I've had.

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10 hours ago, alcyonecorporation said:

Nice to see a 9000 with an engine the blancmange shell can actually cope with, rather than a 'proper Q car'  'tunned' Aero or Carlsson with prancing elk stickers and a fifth gear life measured in minutes. 

I want to like 9000s but the fast ones are such raging shit dynamically I can't cope with them. 
People only like them because they're quick, in a straight line,  for the pittance they're worth; had they driven anything with any kind of cohesion between the shell and engine they'd realise how hopeless this era of Saab is as a performance car, unless you just want to overtake everything off a slip road/the outside lane.  Provided the road is perfectly straight, level and well-surfaced, mind. 

A shame, because of the rest of the package is pretty good, and I imagine a modestly-engined one makes a fine daily driver. They're an excellent camera platform too; I can stand up in the cargo bay of one with the tailgate open.

...er, not that I've done that, honestly. 

[Cue 10,000 'Well I just completely changed the entire suspension and seam welded the shell of my 9000 Aero and it wasted Evos' posts.] 

See also: Volvo 850/S/V70 to a slightly lesser extent. And yes, I own a T-5 Estate, and dear god it's shite on twisty roads. 

Oh aye.

That's exactly why I bought my 9000 with the standard 2.0 in it. Honest. I totally knew all that beforehand.

Also, dare you to try standing up in the load area of mine with the tailgate open. You'll get a concussion pretty quickly due to me fitting Honda Civic struts in an attempt to get the boot to stay open. It didn't work. They were the first boot struts I found in the scrap yard that seemed the right length. I should try going back and finding the struts out of something a bit beefier...

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Lot of talk of Q cars and Boxsters so let’s get back on message.  This looks fabulous.

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it’s even got a sexy steering wheel cover! 

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That looks like a rather smashing place to sit.  It's even got the prestigious CATALYSER badge on the back which, along with the Lambda Sond grille badge, fascinated a younger Bornite.

 

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2 hours ago, BorniteIdentity said:

It's even got the prestigious CATALYSER badge on the back which, along with the Lambda Sond grille badge, fascinated a younger Bornite.

Me too, me too.

Also on message.

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28 minutes ago, egg said:

Don't hang about, no engine or gearbox and 'other parts missing' but £325 and has a  V5...

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If I had any amount of talent / resources / space that's the sort of thing I'd snap up and whang a totally unsuitable engine (read: XUD) into just for a laugh.

However I possess neither talent nor resources nor space. :D

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Seem the odd car like this over the years. What's the script there? I'm guessing rather than super thick layers of paint, it's previously applied body filler that's been quite lobbed on?

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Unfortunately, they haven't opened all those doors to flood it with water before taking it over the 'bridge.

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'Good examples of these are selling for about £3k.'

 

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'Probably cost you £500 to get it perfect'

 

*Edit: He's clearly got his numbers the wrong way round. 

 

 

 

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