# Saab 2008 9-5 **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [December 12, 2015, 9:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/saab-2008-9-5/91946 "2015-12-12T21:15:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/48514_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 2:56am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/saab-2008-9-5/91946/21 "2015-12-17T02:56:09Z")
**“I remember Saabs with Ford Taunus V4 engines in the 1970s.”** Yup! That was a great little engine, and it transformed the Saab into a much more desirable car. There may have been one or two other cars with V-4s after the Ford/Saab use of that Taunus engine, but if there were, they were very rare birds, indeed. ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/saab-2008-9-5/91946/22 "2015-12-17T03:00:31Z")
Lancia did a narrow angle V4 (like the VW VR6) in the Fulvia, last produced in '76: ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/2X/7/7ff9245115e2efea849b6ac9690bf78733282bd9.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Docnick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Docnick](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Docnick)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 4:49am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/saab-2008-9-5/91946/23 "2015-12-17T04:49:32Z")
Some years ago I saw a VW Rabbit with snow tires on the REAR wheels. The owner must have either installed them him/herself or TOLD the garage to put them there. In a novel by British author Ken Follett called “Whiteout” there is a crime committed during a snowstorm in a Northwestern state. The bad guy makes a fast getaway from the cabin in a Cadillac Eldorado throwing snow and gravel from the REAR wheels. Rich bad guys in England usually drive Jaguars which are rear drive. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/48514_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 4:57am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/saab-2008-9-5/91946/24 "2015-12-17T04:57:05Z")
**‘In a novel by British author Ken Follett called “Whiteout” there is a crime committed during a snowstorm in a Northwestern state. The bad guy makes a fast getaway from the cabin in a Cadillac Eldorado throwing snow and gravel from the REAR wheels.’** I hear you! Over the last few months, there have been very few books (either fiction or non-fiction) that I have read without wanting to throw the book out the window as a result of…factual/historical errors, and/or grammatical mistakes. In addition to customer service having been eliminated in a real sense by many companies, publishers seem to have laid-off **all** of their editors and fact-checkers. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 9:01am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/saab-2008-9-5/91946/25 "2015-12-17T09:01:26Z")
Ah, almost a “W” four… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 9:20am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/saab-2008-9-5/91946/26 "2015-12-17T09:20:15Z")
Yeah, my BIL bought a new Jeep. It was about his forth one. I asked him if it was 4WD or AWD and he didn’t know. Just said it must be. Yep my neighbor had what I thought was the perfect car. It was a FWD diesel El Dorado. Good mileage and would never get stuck. Little did I know and bought a diesel too. ---
**Author:** ![Docnick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Docnick](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Docnick)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 4:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/saab-2008-9-5/91946/27 "2015-12-17T16:50:55Z")
A fellow at out wine tasting group had 3 Mercedes models in succession and bragged about their fantastic handling and road holding. When SUVs became popular he traded an E class in on a … Jeep Grand Cherokee with a BEAM front axle! [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/saab-2008-9-5/91946.md?page=1)