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Our Saab 95 is dead!

  • 09-03-2011 12:20pm
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    woody33
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    There is sobbing and gnashing of teeth in Woody Towers, the insurance co. has deemed repairs too expensive on Mrs Woody's beloved '99 Saab 95 and is only offering the book price plus scrap value less the excess, comes to about 1200. She is even more upset because she has been paying fully comp plus all the extras on the assurance they would take care of her in the event of claims. Anyway, we could put about 2000 together for another car, but she has a horror of driving a "tin can", and certainly nothing with a cassette player, though I tell her a cheap CD player could be fitted to many older cars.
    The Saab was a nice drive, but struggled to get more than 30 mpg even on a motorway cruise, so better economy would be necessary. She says she doesn't mind the high tax on a just under 2 litre engine, but it is a lot. I showed her a 98 Corolla but she recoiled in horror, but to my surprise loved a Toyota Yaris 1 liter a friend owns. They seem to command a premium however, and we would like to buy locally (Waterford area) so our mechanic could give potential buys the once over. She has driven a Civic (didn't like), Fabia 1400cc (not impressed) and a slightly raggy Focus, which seemed to have issues, though a clean would be different.
    Her driving pattern would be lots of local, a fair bit of 12 mile commuting, some 40 mile runs and the odd 90 mile motorway run. Reliability would be key, big repair bills would wipe out any savings in tax or fuel.
    What do you think?


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