RIP Saab

snipped-for-privacy@italiancar.co.uk (SteveH) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Fiat seem to be in bed with most people.

Ford with the Ka/500 Opel with the Corsa/Punto & diesel engines Suzuki with the SX/Sedici Chrysler with the US market PSA with the vans & sprogbuses - that's a very long-standing JV, though, going back to the early '70s.

People in glass houses.

I have efficiency, I would like a side of soul to go with it.

I don't ever recall there ever being a VW Quattro.

The A3 uses Haldex.

It's highly unlikey that in the unlikely event that VAG did buy Saab, they'd get Audi running gear - not when VAG can re-cycle the Golf / Passat platform.

The only way Saab would get Quattro is if they got previous generation kit, like the Seat Exeo.

What do you think a B5.5 Passat 4-Motion is in all but name, then?

And then there's the Golf 4-Motion / Octavia Scout with an alternative 4x4 system.

Yay, I got one! (c;

The compressors are connected to Dowty Rotol or Hamilton Standard propellers.

Brakes are multi-plate affairs, a bit like motorbike clutches, with anti-skid, designed to help stop 12 or 23 tonne aircraft from well over

100mph.

Cruise control on some planes can even do the landing itself.

Maybe VAG won't but can see VAG wanting Scania either, but if Ferdi Pieche wants, Ferdi Pieche gets and then it is Porsche that owns it not VAG.

No sign of my car in the car park though.

Sweet, but can it handsoff reverse park?

Most planes are reverse parked without any intervention from the pilot apart from releasing and applying the parking brake.

Some other planes are allowed to reverse the pitch of their propellers and reverse but generally only with the help of a person equipped with table tennis bats.

Do you get to do the funky dancing stuff, then?

I don't weild table tennis bats. I do make some hand gestures in the line of duty, and sometimes I dance funkily, but just for fun.

I'm sure the boss of Porsche would take heart from the fact you can't spell his name... and I'd be grateful if you could point out exactly where either Porsche or VAG have shown any interest in Saab other than 'in your head'.

And whilst you're there, I was wondering if you'd could reaffirm exactly what a B5.5 Passat 4-Motion is, if it isn't a 'VW Quattro' in all but name.

I thought of another example as well; do you reckon that Audi and VW (and Porsche for that matter), developed completely different 4WD drivetrains for the Q7, Tourag and Cayenne respectively?

TIA

But they did them on the petrols, right?

So as an auto diesel Bravo wasn't an option, you bought an auto *petril* [1]

156?

for the short time that it is.

Sounds like a punto to me...

You couldn't get a decent petrol auto at the time in a Bravo. This was pre T-Jet lumps.

5 year warranty these days. You may well need it, but it does show some confidence in their products.