Saab's Demise for the Car Talk Blog

I got my first saab, a '75 turbo, in 1976. I had 5 in a row after that – a '79, an '81, an '84 and a '98. Each one I liked a little bit less than the previous one, until the last one I was pretty much seriously disappointed in. It was such a cool car in the beginning. You’d wave at other Saab drivers in the '70’s, cause we were few and far between. Those cars saved my life more than once, either in avoiding serious collisions or keeping me safe thru them. I’ll miss what they were decades ago, I don’t think I’ll miss what they’ve been recently. It’s a shame they don’t have a chance to recover their old glory.