Folks,

I'm looking around for another moter. Moving on from my aging E36 328i coupe.

Was looking for a BMW 540i sport auto, but these appear to be like rocking horse ****, especially low(ish) milage ones.

Alternatives... Jag X-type 3.0 sport

or

Saab 9-5 Aero (Hot) which is 250bhp of front wheel drive madness. Anyone any experience of these, or should I chill out and wait for a 540 sport ?

Cheers

Mark

 

Saab is fantastic.

I had the 2.3 Turbo and had it tuned up madly by AbbotRacing.Com

Great fun!

Also look at the Hirsch Upgrades. Gorgeous! Hirsch to Saab is what AMG is to Merc.

Saab over the X Type personally.

540i Sport are good fun. But you cant beat the Saab IMO for comfyness and I love them.

Miss mine

 

I believe the 95 Aero (hot) has a quicker 50 - 70 mph acceleration than a 911 turbo.

Any car that can do that must be

 

Freind of mine has one very quick car! given me a fright or two

 

My dad has a 9-5 Aero Estate. It's the 2002 Auto which seems to drive far better than the previous 9-5 Aero, which insisted on trying to hurl you towards a wall whenever you used 'kickdown'!

They are extremely comfortable and well built. We have had an annoying vibration coming from the interior light that turned out to be a label buzzing loose.
The driving position is superb as is the internal heating/cooling.

If driven carefully they don't even eat their tyres too badly. Dad's just covered 30k and the fronts are about 1 or 2k off being replaced.

I have driven it in all sorts of weather and have never had a problem with front end traction. Even in snow it performed admirably, when all the merc's and bmw's were falling off the roads our Saab soldiered on with Winter mode keeping everything together.

A car i can highly recommend.....it's very quick too in the 50 - 100 blast.

Hope this helps

James

 

Only been in one once and thought it was horrible...lots of wheelspin, and a very dodgy chasis...plus it depreciates faster than most...probably makes it good for a second hand buy, mind.

Try one, it might be your thing...comfy, big, quick (in a straight line when rolling), but after a few minutes in one, I decided not any fun, uninvolving, heavy, and I knew I'd be bored silly within a month

For servicing I assume specialists are OK, but the two main dealers the old man has used (he's got a 9-5 LPT) are horrific for trying to stitch him up...he's managed to cultivate one of the mechanics who sorts him out as a sideline. Absolutely disgraceful what they try and pull on a 70-year old with a car 2 weeks out of warranty (fortunately he's a stroppy git, who knows his cars, and takes no ****)

 

took me ages to find my 540 sport but it was stunning...best all round car i have ever been in.

T

 

the saab is a fantastic car - but from a 328i sport, you need to be in a E46 330i Club sport / 330d Coupe, once you have had RWD, FWD doesn't ever seem to be up to the job, and the quality and service will never better a BMW -

 

Quite fancied a bit of a change, but you're right about RWD. I compete in a FWD and its a pig ! Torque steer every which way !

 

A good FWD car wont get loads of torque steer Equal length shafts etc.
Kam

 

I used to have one and I really loved it. Great for doing big miles, very very comfortable. Mine too was played with by Abbott Racing, rather brisk shall we say

 

Whats the 230bhp earlier version like in comparison?

 

How about a legacy B4 or GTB...up to 280 bhp, 4wd, handles better...unfortunately pretty rare on the ground (but mine might be up for sale in a month or so!!)

 

Get the Saab then get this http://www.partsforsaabs.com/product...oducts_id=2046

 

Haven't bought it (yet) but been to look at it tonight. Very very impressive interiers. Off back on Saturday to take for a test.

Just checking out Abbott Racing