RE: Saab replaces million mile car
Discussion
pony said:
Polarbert said:
Alex said:
eccles said:
isn't an american million different to a british million, or am i getting confused and its the billions that are different.
A million (1,000,000) is the same either side of the Atlantic. The US billion (1,000,000,000) is now generally used. A UK billion used to be the same as a US trillion, which is a million million (1,000,000,000,000).
Did you know that a trillion fivers in a pile would reach 63 miles into the sky?
And the largest number known to man is called a Centillion. I wonder how they came up with that? And why nobody has made a larger one.
i thought it was a googolplex, which is a googol (100 digit number) times by another googol.
how much is a centillion?
A googol is 10 to the power of 100 and a googolplex is 10 to the power of a googol, which is much larger than a googol times a googol.
The largest number with a meaning in mathematics used to be Graham's Number, but undoubtedly something else now takes the crown.
A centillion is apparently a mere 10^303!
That Daddy said:
trouble is that was saab then,couldent see the vauxhall/saab hybrids doing anything like that now.
Yep the 95 aero will be dead at 100k after an expensive module fails ,
if i was saab i still wouldnt have given the chap a car , why should they ?
so what does the 1st fat yank to eat 1 million bigmacs get ?
A free day in a mcdonalds ?
seano said:
pony said:
Polarbert said:
Alex said:
eccles said:
isn't an american million different to a british million, or am i getting confused and its the billions that are different.
A million (1,000,000) is the same either side of the Atlantic. The US billion (1,000,000,000) is now generally used. A UK billion used to be the same as a US trillion, which is a million million (1,000,000,000,000).
Did you know that a trillion fivers in a pile would reach 63 miles into the sky?
And the largest number known to man is called a Centillion. I wonder how they came up with that? And why nobody has made a larger one.
i thought it was a googolplex, which is a googol (100 digit number) times by another googol.
how much is a centillion?
A googol is 10 to the power of 100 and a googolplex is 10 to the power of a googol, which is much larger than a googol times a googol.
The largest number with a meaning in mathematics used to be Graham's Number, but undoubtedly something else now takes the crown.
A centillion is apparently a mere 10^303!
DennisTheMenace said:
That Daddy said:
trouble is that was saab then,couldent see the vauxhall/saab hybrids doing anything like that now.
Yep the 95 aero will be dead at 100k after an expensive module fails ,
DI cassette? £150, about 60 seconds install time and Bob's your uncle. Think of all the rotors, caps and ignition wires you'd have worn out in 100,000 miles...
DennisTheMenace said:
so what does the 1st fat yank to eat 1 million bigmacs get ?
A free day in a mcdonalds ?
A fairly major heart attack and subsequent bypass surgery, I'd wager to guess.
euroboy said:
At the end of the day what does a 9-5 Aero actually cost Saab to produce? Not a lot me thinks.
Less than that classic 900 cost to build at any rate - at 100 hrs build time it was just about the most inefficient non-bespoke car to produce even back then... If you ever took one of these apart you'd appreciate how the Swedes couldn't ever turn a profit on it by the late Eighties... truly reliable it ain't but conversely it's built to withstand just about anything short of a nuclear war...
Frik said:
The article seems to suggest Saab were oblidged to give him a new car. Why? It's not as if he donated the car to their own museum.
What about the shedloads of free, not to mention very positive, publicity worldwide in the media? To buy that sort of airtime coverage would cost a huge amount of money, and most people would ignore it anyway, not to mention even more free publicity they get by giving him the car. Giving a free car to anyone else who makes a million miles is also more free positive publicity (eg. look how reliable saabs are, and how kind we are offering free cars) for frankly not doing much at all.
They didn't have to give him a car, but it was a pretty good marketing decision for them to do so.
Road_Terrorist said:
They didn't have to give him a car, but it was a pretty good marketing decision for them to do so.
Certainly. I just didn't care for the tone of the article.
Mind you is all the publicity going to be good? There's a real "they don't build them like they used to" feeling to this story...
Frik said:
euroboy said:
He has given Saab a heck of a lot of publicity and I can imagine the car would be pretty useful to Saab for R&D purposes?
Can't see why myself.
Are you being serious?!
To see how the shell has suffered with stress cracks from prolonged use for one...
I know of a Mercedes and a VW bought back by their manufacturers with silly high miles for the very reason of R&D...
MJK 24 said:
Frik said:
euroboy said:
He has given Saab a heck of a lot of publicity and I can imagine the car would be pretty useful to Saab for R&D purposes?
Can't see why myself.
Are you being serious?!
To see how the shell has suffered with stress cracks from prolonged use for one...
I know of a Mercedes and a VW bought back by their manufacturers with silly high miles for the very reason of R&D...
Are you serious, if they were worried about fatigue and stress they wouldent be using vauxhall components,i mean there not exactly bullit proof are they,as i said earlier that car was when Saabs were Saabs,boring maybe but tough.
Saab suffered from quite good built quality in terms of body and interior etc.
So much so that people didn't but a new car they just got the old one repaired.
Hence Saab sales were poor and they got bought by GM.
new Saabs will not have the same problems.
they had head gasket issues under warranty so saab stopped dealers doing it. they added " retourquing" the head bilts to the PDI or 1st service.
95 manual box spits out 5th.
DI cassettes- almost worth carrying a spare.
Cam chains & ballancer chains at about 40k
While the motors our best to changethe turbo at the same time.
Quite an appetite for discs and pads and tyres esp the autos
I was Aftersales Manager in a Sasab dealership for a number of years and if i didn't give someone a legitimate bill for the thick end of £2k ever week I wasn't trying.
He may had done a million but he was either very lucky or he spent a fortune on doing it.
the old 900 used to crack their sumps and that was a powertrain removal " Ker-ching!"
So much so that people didn't but a new car they just got the old one repaired.
Hence Saab sales were poor and they got bought by GM.
new Saabs will not have the same problems.
they had head gasket issues under warranty so saab stopped dealers doing it. they added " retourquing" the head bilts to the PDI or 1st service.
95 manual box spits out 5th.
DI cassettes- almost worth carrying a spare.
Cam chains & ballancer chains at about 40k
While the motors our best to changethe turbo at the same time.
Quite an appetite for discs and pads and tyres esp the autos
I was Aftersales Manager in a Sasab dealership for a number of years and if i didn't give someone a legitimate bill for the thick end of £2k ever week I wasn't trying.
He may had done a million but he was either very lucky or he spent a fortune on doing it.
the old 900 used to crack their sumps and that was a powertrain removal " Ker-ching!"
odyssey2200 said:
the old 900 used to crack their sumps and that was a powertrain removal " Ker-ching!"
Ehm, maybe it's not a good time for me to mention that the old 900 doesn't have a sump as such - the gearbox casing is the sump (and yes, these can crack when you overtorque the sump plug)?
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