Bargains are to be had. Plenty of spares still around, especially as 93 = posh Astra and 95 = posh Vectra.

Well they weren't as Vectra based as General Motors requested them to be but they do share some bits.

SAAB engine management systems = runaway.

Bit obscure that - would you care to enlighten us??

Is Saab now dead?

Was reading only a week or so ago that they have been bought by a Canadian company

Yes it would appear it will soon be in the hands of an electric car group based in Sweden. If thats the case then its nice it stays in Sweden I suppose, rather than get flogged off on the cheap to the Koreans merely as a name to sell Hyundai's for £5 more.

Yes it would appear it will soon be in the hands of an electric car group based in Sweden. If thats the case then its nice it stays in Sweden I suppose, rather than get flogged off on the cheap to the Koreans merely as a name to sell Hyundai's for £5 more.

Hyundai are keen to BUILD quality cars, not just take a "has-been" brand and re-badge their existing models.

The cheap Koreans re-badged as a better brand are Daewoo, re-badged as Chevrolet !!

Lets be clear here. GM bought the car manufacturing side of Daewoo, and it is the Americans who have made GM Australia responsible for GM Korea and re-badged the cars as Chevrolet.

Although Hyundai bought Kia when Kia were bankrupt, they continued to develop Kia as a brand - and look where they both are today!

Hyundai do not have a history of buying obsolete brands and re-badging.