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I guess I'm a sucker for rare-ish stuff. My last car was a 2009 G8 GXP; about 1829 total cars were built, of which only ~800 of the 1800 or so were manual, and then once you got down to options it was one of 42 or so (a common configuration relatively speaking. There's a couple GXP option combinations that are single digit numbers.) While we had the GXP we also had a 2006 Porsche Cayenne Turbo S, of which only 600 were imported in 2006. My wife totaled it last fall and I replaced it with another odd duck, a 2008 Saab 9-7x Aero, which is a somewhat de-Chevyified Trailblazer SS with a nicer interior but keeping the LS2. Only 500 9-7x Aeros were produced in 2008, and between '08 and '09 only something like ~621 total were built before things went south. Now I drive an '05 E55 AMG which ironically is the most "common" of all these cars (at ~2200 produced in 2005 and less than 8,000 over the 2003-2006 run) and my wife has the Aero. Pretty happy with both actually. 
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13 INCH DICK posted:Think he's talking about one of the options on the right over there. Corinth is famous for its leather!
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Modus Man posted:2009 Saab 9-7X Aero. 126 were built in 2009. 526 were built in it's entire production run. Fortunately, i'ts powered by an LS2 which is easy to get parts for! Sup 9-7x Aero buddy? AI owns 1/300th or so of these trucks. I think final product was 500 in 2008 and 121 in 2009 - 100 black, and 21 in silver. So if your truck's silver you have the rarest baby of Moraine, Ohio. Fucknag posted:I've occasionally heard that referred to as the Trollblazer and I refuse to call it anything else. Trollhattan? Yes. Troll? Definitely. There's some kid that lives in the next neighborhood over in a very loud RX-7 that now casts hateful glares at the Trollblazer whenever I stumble on him because we have found out numerous times he's definitely slower than it. Troll indeed!
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Modus Man posted:Ah my numbers were a little off but yeah still rare. Unfortunately mine is not one of the 20 something diamond silver, I think they look real nice. Does yours have a crippled transmission or stabilitrak issues like everyone else?(yes and yes for mine) I wonder how many are still actually on the road. They are only 5 or 6 years old but I am sure a few have been scrapped already due those two issues and their low residual value. Nope and nope, mine's fine other than a droopy rear left airbag and probably needing sway bar bushings. It got mad and disabled Stabilitrak once but $3 in brake fluid fixed that issue. Transmission shifts solidly. I was thinking about adding power to it (which would likely necessitate transmission service down the road) but I don't think my wife likes it enough to put pointless money into it. We will see! Last year I got her to drag race the Cayenne but I don't think she will race this thing. blk posted:How do you guys like the Trollblazer? I've joked with the wife about picking one up for her so we can have two badge-engineered Saabs in the driveway. I'd also like a 9-4x, but they are impossible to find and possibly terrible. I like it a lot. As a body on frame SUV goes it rides well and has more than decent get-up-and-go. The 4 speed's not quite as awesome as a 6l80e would have been but whatever. The 9-7s came in 3 flavors, lovely 4.2 Atlas I6 that nobody should own, respectable 5.3, and the slightly more ballsy LS2 6.0. A guy I know bought a 5.3 recently for like $6k and is going to Ebay turbo the fucker because why not. I recommend you do the same? Their interiors (while not amazing) are significantly better than a Trailblazer and the trucks are cheaper to boot. Something to be said for that. Tremek fucked around with this message at 06:32 on May 14, 2014 |
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