RE: Saab replaces million mile car
Discussion
I am still not sure about how relevant research is on a car they no longer make with mechanical far removed from those in use today, it may swing the decision of what car to buy for a few potential high mile users if they have the potential of a free car at the end although many might not make it the distance, (maybe its easier to notch up those miles on American roads than ours without knackering the car so much)
still think Saabs are interesting cars especially the Bio Ethanol engines but I did hate some jobs when I worked on the 900's and the older 99 had a great habit of nearly amputating the passengers hand if left in the wrong place whilst yanking on the handbrake. nice.
still think Saabs are interesting cars especially the Bio Ethanol engines but I did hate some jobs when I worked on the 900's and the older 99 had a great habit of nearly amputating the passengers hand if left in the wrong place whilst yanking on the handbrake. nice.
900T-R said:
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)?
there were still loads of cars running around with oil all over the underside of the car and engine.
Maybe this was an inbuilt corrosion protection.
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...
They'd be better off spending their time looking at all of the cars with 10% of that mileage on that are rusty as fook, and run like jade goody doing a marathon.
k321 said:
great only 830,000 miles left to go!
i think the older saabs are more reliable by far than the current 9-3 and 9-5 cars.
i think the older saabs are more reliable by far than the current 9-3 and 9-5 cars.
Edited by k321 on Wednesday 10th January 20:26
Not more reliable in se - in fact, they had a bit of a reputation for being temperamental in their heyday especially turbo's (and who in their right mind would want a Saab sans blower
) - but more durable, absolutely... Polarbert 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?
edit to say its a googol not a google
Edited by pony on Friday 5th January 17:41
a 1 with 600 noughts. But I've just had a look and you are right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centilli
a bit of a debate as googolplex is the largest number but the wikipedia says this.....
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary comments that googol and googolplex are "not in formal mathematical use".
which would say that centillion is the largest number
either way if i had a pound for every one of either i'd be a happy man!
Edited by kermitman on Wednesday 10th January 20:52
kermitman said:
a bit of a debate as googolplex is the largest number but the wikipedia says this.....
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary comments that googol and googolplex are "not in formal mathematical use".
which would say that centillion is the largest number
How about a centillion... and one?
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