Saab 93 bhp

christy02

Hi,

Looking at 2008/2009 saab 93 petrols on done deal. A good few are advertised as 175bhp. My understanding was the 150bhp is badged 1.8t, 175bhp is badged 2.0t and 210bhp is badged 2.0T.

The ones that are claimed 175hp are all 1.8t. Some of these are dealers as well that should know better. One is advertised as 210bhp when it's a 2.0t so a 175hp version AFAIK.

Any saab heads confirm this for me?

Which is the best engine of these? Is the biopower engine thirsty?

acronym Chilli

It is confusing.
Don't know about the biopower engines, but the other turbocharged ones are actually all rather similar. With remapping you can actually close the gaps (mostly). Also not much meaningful differences in fuel consumption, so I'd go for the more powerful variant you can find. (Again don't know about biopower). The higher pressure Turbos also may be a bit more resilient, for what it matters (what really killed turbos was oil starvation on older engines with sludge, and no turbo survives that)

CiDeRmAn

Apparently the biofuel models are heavy on petrol.

Nuw

christy02 wrote: »

Hi,

Looking at 2008/2009 saab 93 petrols on done deal.  A good few are advertised as 175bhp. My understanding was the 150bhp is badged 1.8t, 175bhp is badged 2.0t and 210bhp is badged 2.0T.

This is correct.
However, the biopower ones are slightly different, 1.8t is 175bhp and the 2.0t is 200. They don't actually consume a lot more fuel than their non biopower counterparts and I certainly wouldn't mind one. I think this comes form the Fords biofuel engines which are a thirsty bunch...
No matter which engine you go for, you should see around mid-30s mpg depending how heavy you go on the turbo.

christy02

Nuw wrote: »

This is correct.
However, the biopower ones are slightly different, 1.8t is 175bhp and the 2.0t is 200. They don't actually consume a lot more fuel than their non biopower counterparts and I certainly wouldn't mind one. I think this comes form the Fords biofuel engines which are a thirsty bunch...
No matter which engine you go for, you should see around mid-30s mpg depending how heavy you go on the turbo.

That’s interesting. What are the bio power engines like for reliability?

acronym Chilli

On the slightly older generation of engine, 2.0t (154bhp), I drove 35,670 miles and averaged over that distance did 8.79 l/100km or 32mpg.
Quite a lot of motorway miles in that, but I never drove for economy the entire time. Reasonable bit of city driving too crossing town to get to motorway. I liked the car, and engine in particular. Only regretted not holding out for a 2.0T or even HOT variant when buying originally.

Nuw

Reliability should be fairly OK provided it has been serviced correctly. These cars were overall very reliable and shouldn't give you any bother apart from wear and tear. Look for one with service history and you should be fine.

R.O.R

The bio power engines are only 175 or 200 when running on bio fuel. When on petrol they are 150 & 175.

Saab used to offer a dealer upgrade from the 150 to - 175 so should be easy enough to get remapped.