[speeder]

I'm very familiar with Saabs up through the 900 line, having owned and worked on many. I have a love/hate feeling for them--I love the weird engineering and design + the way they drive and the space in them, etc. I love that they're odd and Swedish. Volvos are just Swedish. The engine in that one is sweet, N/A 16V DOHC.

The achilles heal of all 900 Saabs is the transaxle. They are the weak link in the driveline and they are very weak. They WILL fail, it's a "when" not an "if". And the repair always exceeds the value of the car, since the cars are worth very little. I'd own one again if it had a fresh transaxle and the total price was around what you're in that car. It looks very nice and your investment is OK, just enjoy it and don't hammer on it at all, maybe you'll get lucky for quite a while.