good points but man alive, that wheel "upgrade" really lets it down

I have a c4 I might sell it’s silver and a manual 88

I don’t miss my manual in my 99’ Tacoma 4x4….especially in gridlock traffic on the interstate highway! Bought new Tacoma SR5 4x4 in 1999….drove it for almost 18 yrs and 350,000 miles. Bought 17’ Tacoma TRD Pro…..Toyota makes the best trucks bar none. I’ve always wanted a T-100 4x4.

Same year as mine only thing is mine is a turbo 400 auto 3 speed auto and i can verefy the 9 miles per gallon. My steering is very tight with zero slop and will run 70 down the highway at 3200 rpms all day long. Woudent trade it for a new.

man your review of the c4 is spot on. i love it that people havnt figured it out yet. you should get a car and fix it up. see you on the road track!

200 horsepower for a V8 engine is ridiculous! We have four cylinders that have more horsepower than that. Whatever engineer came up with that idea should have stayed home that day and called in sick

Love me a clean C4... Nice ride, brother!

that was nice you gave unconditional luv to something they almost give away today cheap/yellow cloud over it, its like a 1980s nissan z car/manual i had, when called around for parts for it all the recycle auto parts places called it a dead horse/non collectable- which i didnt like but it was truthful PEACE MR

A very poetic review of a classic car

Have you added an aftermarket remote start car alarm?

Me neighbor is selling me his 1997 Saab 9000 Aero for $2k it’s in mint condition I pick it up Saturday. He also has a 2008 9-3 Turbo X lucky guy.

Great video! We had one when I was a kid too, loved that car. I've been hunting for one and can't believe how hard it is to find

Good video keep going👍

Brother, thank you so much for the video but please watch the others KZbin video that how they are describing the car and all everything. I have been waiting for the battery health how many miles range I didn’t see anything I keep pushing forward. Maybe I missed it but I think 90% or 80% that in the video you talk a lot you don’t give more information but please take it for constructive comment for you for your sideand also some graphic pictures on the video your explanation and everything. The way that you talk is everything is great but too much information that we have interested in or I am not interested. I’m interested in my car. I’m not interested for the backstory or anything.

I really like the "notchy" shifting on early Toyota stick shifts.

The funny thing is that my 2000 ML55 has 160k miles and absolutely none of those items are falling apart or loose on mine. Yes some of the materials are cheap but I think yours was treated very poorly by previous owners. Mine actually had 8 previous owners and it’s not falling apart anywhere.

Just picked up my 2015 model s P85D with only 90k miles free supercharging for only 14,500 after the used EV tax credit and loving it so far!

so not an aero then lol....

Yes. It made me lose any faith in the car wizard. He does not know anything about Saabs. He only attacks them because he heard they are hard to work on.

Congrats bro you deserve it

Toyotas from the 90’s are something different.

RIP Prius

everyone feels a little inclined to drive or own a MB title car but is it worth it ....... I wish you would get a 2020 4th gen front wheel drive prius le, drive it in eco mode at a little above all speed limits but easy - and your trips will be 65 average mpg all conditions- if u drive it like everyone drives it will get 55-60 all the time on reg cheap junk gas- 4th gen is much smoother quiet- PEACE MR- all cars are good for something

Nice video..I had 3 9000's..My favorite was my.'95 9000.Awro spd..Those Recaro seats were phenomenal. You can probably correct your climate control foam issue. My 9000's were all 5spd..The Aero had a 3" Turbo back exhaust and nothing ever kept up when I stepped on it..I had a lowered suspension by another "1 or 2 on it , with stiffer springs and shocks. Ride was very track worthy. Those improvements transformed the car and had it for 15 years and out almist 500 K KMS on it before selling .I broke my heart to do so, but, had 2 many Saabs at the time.

Imagine this car with the Finnish Saab V8 (4.0 liters 230Bhp 330Nm NA, it was meant to be twin-turbo. Double those figures) and in a 4WD Saab 9000 that was on the works in Sweden at the time, also killed by GM's short sightedness at a stage when they literally could have started to tool up for production. The Saab 9000 project, in fact was at a point where the only thing that would need to happen for the Uusikaupunki factory to start punching out V8 9000s was a phone call to Sisu-Diesel engine plant to start up the line. Well, start tooling the line for mass production, anyway. The V8 9000 was a rather tragicomical affair as to how it came about. Saab-Valmet in Finland Uusikaupunki, had it's own R&D department as of course did the Trollhättan headoffice. The Finnish head of R&D (who had a double role as the top level of engineering exec at Sisu-Diesel at the time. Both, finnish government majority owned businesses because social-democracy), and the Swedes were rude to him when he proposed combining two 45 degree Saab B202 (2.0 liter 900, 9000) engine blocks into a V8 and fitting them into the front of the flagship model for the US market. He had, you see, done some calculations and determined it would fit easily. The Swedes insisted, they had done the math and measured several times and that this is impossible. And told him something to the effect, he was incompetent. And there's very little more insulting than that, that a Swedish person can say to a Finnish one. Especially in the field of engineering and technology. He went and got his own personal 9000 from the factory parking lot, parked it in the tool room shop floor, took out a tape measure and according to witnesses after a couple of minutes proclaimed "Mahtuu!" which is "Fits!" in Finnish. Most likely with "vittu" prefix and "perkele!" exclamation at the end, to let others know were gonna do some serious shit now. :D And proceeded to greenlight the engine development program the instant he got in his office. They made all in all 5 V8 9000 prototypes. Of which all were rigorously tested on the road. According to legend, this is how the R&D head got his revenge. After informing the Swedes what he had achieved, they naturally had to come down and see it for themselves. He proceeded to pick up the Swedes with one of the prototypes. Said nothing on the drive back to the factory and upon arriving on an empty factory parking lot with out anyone to greet them, the Swedes got pissed and asked "Where the hell is this mythical V8 9000 of yours!?" "You are sitting in it." I suspect, that some swedish person may have also had something personal to do with killing the V8 9000 by getting under the skin of GM managers, as to how could a small country in the nordics be able to make an engine on their own, let alone a very good V8, when GM itself was struggling (and failing miserably) to come up with a DOHC V8 in the first place and knew full well that their SBC based on 1940s technology isn't cutting it. Of course, then some genius in the US managed to make a push-rod breath finally and there is the LS. But, c'mon, better fuel mileage, much better thermal efficiency (similar power and torque, smaller displacement) and the fucker is built with twin-turbocharging in mind, they used turbo exhaust manifolds and were working on a turbo prototype, when the axe came down. It would have been a Viper killer. The Saab H-engine is a torque monster with a single bank and poky little Garret or Mitsubishi TD04 bolted on to it. It's an engine that had by then been already designed to be turbocharged easily so that the turbos wake up early and give top power and torque into high revs. The power band in the last B235Rs starts from 1400rpm and keeps on giving until 6500rpm. Imagine a five liter twin-turbo V8 DOHC engine, which punches out over 800Nm of torque and more than 600bhp. With 4WD :D In a Swedish luxor barge. :D Here's a few clips of it and the story told by someone... kzbin.info/www/bejne/pofMlZuoo7F5nJI kzbin.info/www/bejne/pX-oap6Cd8iAe5o kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5eXe4SVl9Shp6c

Hello. I have 96 9000 aero 5 spd bought new in New Zealand. I wanted to say a few things about my car and how it differs from yours. You speak of heavy steering body roll and turbo lag. The Aero has thicker road springs and barely any body roll. The handling and road grip is impressive firm and flat. Turbo lag is nill unless you expect full power from very low revs. Instant power can only come from high cubic capacity. To get strong acceleration from a low speed, you need to have the turbo spooling up allready. With practice there is no lag. Regards the Car Wizard...his attitude simply comes from zero interest in Saabs. Why? His intention is to support the regular guy into buying a sensible car with his eyes open. The Saab brand is for the Saab enthusiast and those guys have no problem finding parts. Why? Because the enthusiast owner and the enthusiast parts supplier are operating in the same mind set and the regular guys are not. In the same way I have say the pre GM 900 are not at all difficult to work on and in may ways much easier than conventional brands. You are right in saying the unconventional nature of the 900 engineering would scare poeple off the brand. The Saab brand was a niche brand and quirky. Regular buyers are too scared to be that. The 9000 was Saabs first attempt to be normal and sell their product to the masses. They went up against the the long established major brands. To win at that game would require many decades to learn how to do that. The original Saab DNA is what makes them so remarkable. That DNA is not able to operate in the mass production game. Otherwise I aggree with your reasons why you apreciate the Sab you have. 😮 .

Still have 3 a 97Aero,98 CSE auto with Aero suspension and a 97 CSE parts car that was my dad's which died from rust . Had/have 5 9000s. Much more solid body than the 09 9-5 I picked up in 5/2024.

In Sweden they all are rusted out… only have a few left now

Awesome car! I had one. The thing was a beast. Unfortunately I sold mine when I didn’t really need to. Amazing that you were able to buy your Dad’s back. Take care of it. Fluid Film the underbody, keep the leather properly moisturized. It’s Elmo leather and unheard quality today.

I cannot imagine driving this in Colorado. The road quality is shockingly poor.

My friend had one. 2 owner. Low mileage. Total nightmare. Sunroof leaked, doors leaked, floors flooded. 0/10 do not recommend. It looks good, it’s a wagon, and the engine was the best part for the mileage.

But the don't honor the recalls

I have this ,2008 ,never skyrocketed.

Is the Harriss car Just the commonality /wholelisticly sneaking. Mines an 07

1900 wont get a oem battery.

I bought my T100 SR5 almost 30years ago. It's exact;y like the one in this photo, including color, except mine is a 2 wheel drive. I still own this truck and I absolutely love it. It has never failed me in 30 years.

I’ve had 2 a hatchback and a saloon so enjoyed them, one thing Saab didn’t sort was the headligning sagged on both ! small gripe Once you know them good chance you’ll always want another in time, great wagon.

Thanks for a great video.. i couldn't agree more about your synopsis .. I have a 1997 aero auto, and 1995 aero manual, i love them both.. i do my own work so i can fix most issues. They are amazing and truly underappreciated. i like to imagine if gm never ruined them what could have been. Viva la saab.. Viva la 9000

I have on 04 with 262k on it. I wouldn’t trade it for a new one. I love this car, it is dependability plus

I've own 2 of them looking to buy another one I do have a Saab 900 now Great 🚗

'97 SAAB 9000 CSE 2.3 Turbo. The best car ever made. I miss mine. 😔

I had a 1995 T-100. It rotted out from underneath me. The control arms collapsed while driving it. I junked it for $500.

Brilliant presentation. So many of my own thoughts articulated. Thank you. So sad what happened to Saab.

One of the best cars made, period ❤

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The screens aren’t cracked that has something to do with the adhesive for the screens!

My '93 Aero chewed through 2 manual gearboxes. Later models had an upgraded gearbox. Would have had the auto box if I'd known. But it was quick, 5500 rpm in 5th = 165mph on the autobahn.

You don't have to keep your foot on the brake pedal when it is booting up. The screen in front of you does take a long time to boot up on the old MCU1 cars. Also, the screens are leaking, not cracked. Very common issue. Tesla will upgrade both screens with faster newer units for approx $1500.

I have a 2008 and my transmission and inverter get hot when I get up to speed quickly, looks like it could be a transmission or a million other things. I already changed my coolant pump about a month before this issue started… any ideas?

What's your care routine for your seats? What a gorgeous ride. Wish my 9000 was that clean.