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Originally Posted by kaisen

Saabs are getting ridiculously cheap. This will have an effect. Some repairs will 'total' the car, making the rest of a car a good source for donor parts for the next Saab to stay on the road.

Every day I come across a 9.3 or 9.5 with clogged arteries and starved, smoking turbos. They're for sale for next to nothing..... good steady supply of used parts.

Similar phenomena with Land Rovers I've found. They depreciate quickly but are expensive to fix, so one major failure can lead an owner to "total" them and sell it for parts. I bought most of the parts for my Discovery used via Ebay or specialist LR dismantlers. I suspect a similar market will emerge for Saab parts.