Last of the SAABs to be crushed?

[Rammy76]

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/...

What an absolute waste if true. Surely it'd be better to allow them to be used instead of needlessly wasted

The rules of receivership/business are very strange.

[J4CKO]

Rammy76 said:

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/...

What an absolute waste if true. Surely it'd be better to allow them to be used instead of needlessly wasted

The rules of receivership/business are very strange.

Its a start

Only joking, the whole thing is a shame but as a society destroying functioning cars sucks, the resources used to produce these just goes to waste, someone, charities or whatever could use them, senseless to destroy them, just get a waiver of responsibility drawn up and given them away.

[Rowan138]

i think the swedish gov't want them gone as saab owe them a pile of import tax and most likely those cars are made from materials which import tax has not been paid on, so they cannot be sold and have to be destroyed.

[Codswallop]

What an utterly stupid decision

[Urban Sports]

Who is going to maintain the last ones sold that are still under warranty?

May be a daft question but I haven't really been paying attention to this.

[soad]

Codswallop said:

What an utterly stupid decision

Bloody paper-pushers

[ukmike2000]

How about we pay them the scrap value in return for promising not to claim on the warranty?

There are fools, damn fools and administrators

[The_Burg]

Just as stupid as every scrappage scheme. Perfectly good cars destroyed in an act of vandalism.
As probably the last ever of this mark they could at least have been preserved.

[williamp]

J4CKO said:

the whole thing is a shame but as a society destroying functioning cars sucks, the resources used to produce these just goes to waste, someone, charities or whatever could use them, senseless to destroy them, just get a waiver of responsibility drawn up and given them away.

Its the only option. You cant waiver the responsability either. At what stage was the car at when the factory shut down for the nth time?

How do you know the windscreen has really bonded?
That the rear suspension crossmember has been tightened to the correct tolerence?
what about the seatbelt anchors? The fuel lines? the brakes? The list is endless. They would need to be rebuilt..

You might risk it, and although mechanical failure is responsable for a very small % of road sccidents, that % could in crease hugefold with one of these cars. And can you really waiver the responsability if your car shed a rear corner and ran me over and killed me? How is that right for me?

They- and you- cannot take the risk. Hence they will be scrapped. As with all prototype and development cars.


Even these were scrapped after production stopped:

[Piepiepie]

When is best to start looking to get a good deal?

I want a 9-3 Aero Estate, either the diesel or the 2.8 petrol.

Start looking now or give it a while? Prices seem to be dropping a little, but not by huge amounts....

[kaf]

Piepiepie said:

When is best to start looking to get a good deal?

I want a 9-3 Aero Estate, either the diesel or the 2.8 petrol.

Start looking now or give it a while? Prices seem to be dropping a little, but not by huge amounts....

Why?

If it breaks you will struggle to find spares.

They have been great cars, but wouldn't touch one with a barge pole now.

[Strawman]

The company that makes & supplies the parts is different from the main company and hasn't gone into bankruptcy. There are also lots of specialist suppliers (breakers and after market parts etc.) I agree the new 9-5 might be tricky for some parts in a few years, but the older models (pre 08 ?) should be easy enough to get parts for.

[bint]

Depends on the age of the car. Having just bought a 9-5 Aero last week I had a look at spares from Euro car parts and they are a darn sight cheaper than my Alfa was.

[MG CHRIS]

kaf said:

Piepiepie said:

When is best to start looking to get a good deal?

I want a 9-3 Aero Estate, either the diesel or the 2.8 petrol.

Start looking now or give it a while? Prices seem to be dropping a little, but not by huge amounts....

Why?

If it breaks you will struggle to find spares.

They have been great cars, but wouldn't touch one with a barge pole now.

Not true you can still get parts for mg/rovers even though the company went bust in 2005-06. Why would it be different for saab. Anyway most of the parts off a saab are from a vauxhall so parts supply is not a problem.

[philmots]

Piepiepie said:

When is best to start looking to get a good deal?

I want a 9-3 Aero Estate, either the diesel or the 2.8 petrol.

Start looking now or give it a while? Prices seem to be dropping a little, but not by huge amounts....

As a 2.8 owner i can recommend one! Great cars.

[philmots]

kaf said:

Why?

If it breaks you will struggle to find spares.

They have been great cars, but wouldn't touch one with a barge pole now.

The Saab parts company Saab AB is still running as is/was.. see this link.. http://www.cambridgesaab.co.uk/default.asp?docId=4...

No worries as the parts are all GM and not that many are Saab specific (specially the oily bits) Specialist parts will still be supplied or available from breakers.

[LewisR]

williamp said:

J4CKO said:

the whole thing is a shame but as a society destroying functioning cars sucks, the resources used to produce these just goes to waste, someone, charities or whatever could use them, senseless to destroy them, just get a waiver of responsibility drawn up and given them away.

Its the only option. You cant waiver the responsability either. At what stage was the car at when the factory shut down for the nth time?

How do you know the windscreen has really bonded?
That the rear suspension crossmember has been tightened to the correct tolerence?
what about the seatbelt anchors? The fuel lines? the brakes? The list is endless. They would need to be rebuilt..

You might risk it, and although mechanical failure is responsable for a very small % of road sccidents, that % could in crease hugefold with one of these cars. And can you really waiver the responsability if your car shed a rear corner and ran me over and killed me? How is that right for me?

They- and you- cannot take the risk. Hence they will be scrapped. As with all prototype and development cars.


Even these were scrapped after production stopped:

...but these Astons are pre-production test vehicles; the paint and the C/G markers show this. They'd never be intended or allowed for public purchase as there was never any control on holes being drilled in it for instrumentation and they wouldn't have been homologated either. They are just experiments/tests on wheels. Furthermore, the red sticker at the top of the vehicle screen denoates the Ford system of being a "Red Sticker" car which further clarifies that it was a test vehicle ("Green Sticker" cars would be fully legal road cars).

Edited by LewisR on Friday 13th January 19:06