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RE: The Air Show (Part 1): More photos of the Saab JAS 39 Gripen
Nice piece mate and really like the photos. Scary that no one ever mentions how much went wrong before they got it right. Wish Saab would start building cars again. Have a good one
Yes they built exceptionally good cars. I loved my mom's Saab 900i that I got to drive when I got the driver's license. It was built like a tank, and withstood all my stupid youthful mishaps, driving into trenches, muddy fields (getting the car covered in that shit), light poles, spinning and hitting the wheel into the edge of the pavement, and also getting stuck on a ledge swinging without wheels touching the ground.
Apart from the trench, spinning and lightpole that really made some dents, I didn't tell her of most of these.
;-S
(She didn't have to know.)
The Saab 900 had proper bumpers. You could actually hit stuff with that without breaking hundreds if not thousands of euros worth of parts and structures.
Yup, they sure as hell don't build to many cars like that anymore.