Had my 9-7x 4.2i custom fully loaded Saab SUV for 2 years or so... its been good whip game proper.
22nd bday present whip shopping @ thes dealership... Picked out the specific model I wanted (obviously within a price limit), signed, swiped the rents' credit card, burned out of the lot, popped bottles, drove home. Went skiing the next morning. Very blessed & stoked night.
my review of
Definitely no complaints overall. I wanted something that everyone else and their spoiled college girl bmw x5 driving slut did not have.... u know.. Better to be a little original - I really never ever see anyone else driving 9-7xs. I wanted something that was luxury, SUV, dope in the snow, 4wd, powerful enough engine, not too huge, not too small, under 40k, reliable, sorta unique.. and the 9-7x met all of those constraints, so w/e. I'll probably step down to somekind of hood ass luxury hybrid coupe in a couple years or whenever I am making enough paper to trade this in and get something new. Not a fag like Jon Olsson who made it clear that it's unfashionable to have the same car for more than 2 years max... grateful for what i have.
Some specs/pros/cons (copy and pasted from some lame textedit saved thing I rambled typed up as a review for someone who asked me how i liked it..):
- Premium italian cream/beige leather seats wit some kind of special heat/cooling system or w/e it is.
- 20 inch premium Saab full chrome rims
- Pretty shitty MPG fuel economy.... It may not be a hummer, but it definitely doesn't get good millage at all. I've driven it a lot of miles in 2 years, considering I could technically get around when Im around home with public transportation (boston MBTA system is mad slow fuck that... the most 'historical' maybe, but the most inefficient and painfully slow. Plus who likes to take the bus. no. ) and anyways, I avoid looking at the total-fuel-spent reading on the computer. Last time I checked and roughly did the math in my head.. it added up to having wasted like $8000 on gas. Which sucks thinking about when im poor like I am right now.. I think it gets around 20-22 mpg on the highway average and a real shitty
- AIR compressor system in the back trunk WITH (concealed in a side panel) full commercial-grade braided 25 foot hose, brass attachments w/ built in air pressure gage... works with car completely off and even dead.... I don't give a FUCK what anyone says, I'm still a little kid sometimes and randomly finding this long hose that shoots out air at the press of a button made me so excited. It still does I always try and find excuses to use it.... Like blowing up kiddie pools, inflating cheap inflatable rafts, adding air to my own tires if they need it, inflating beach balls, bringing a huge cheap ass entire walmart style inflatable living room set - couches, loveseat etc. and driving up to a beach and inflate all of it in minutes, post up with brews on the sand. or just pissing friends off blasting people with compressed air. I dont care if some guy has a 200k foreign car "cool car bro, but u dont have a fucking sweet air pump hose, i do.." . Its the little things that make me happy
- 4WD w/ boss ass Michelin Latitude Tour HP premium tires. I popped the sidewall on one of the tires a year+ ago against a brutal curb when I was being dumb and trying to parallel park while very drunk... shit cost me $450 PER tire. Retarded. Now i'm stuck with eventually getting the other 3 replaced at a min of 400 each or just switching to a less ridiculous tire and buying 4 new ones. They are super nice, no doubt.. but the dealership definitely played me on that.
- On Star 4-year equipped , bluetooth, emergency standard shit etc. I know On Star really isn't cool and is kinda old played out but whatever. Its all built in so might as well have it. ---> The part that is pretty dope actually is that as any of u who have it know - onstar sends you an email status-check in which includes a complete overview of every single part of your car.. from the amount of oil left/when to change it, to your tire pressure etc , so if you need to fix anything/if anything is wrong.. you get an idiot proof 3D multi x-ray-visual, as well as written description/numbers to understand it
- My own separate in-car phone number/line via On Star/Saab with 1000 non expiring minutes ($400 to recharge back to 1000 minutes.. haven't had to do that) Surprisingly the car phone line has become useful/saved the day many more times than you would ever think.... such as when my iphone dies and for some reason I don't have a charger in the car, or you forgot your phone in a rush, or if you just want to call from a different phone number... Like if someone has your celly number blocked through their service provider , and you need to call them out... who knows
- Xion & LED exterior lighting system, dub fog xion beams
- 4-seperately controlled climate zone controls (kinda stupid IMO- seems pointless/ineffective to let 2 people sitting next to each other try and have their own "climate" bubble. fail.
- Weird but kinda cool "hand throttle controls" , so that besides the normal cruise control shit that every car has - you can actually do an entire 5 hour drive , highway, stopping, tolls, whatever, without ever touching the gas or break pedals... another kind of dumb feature. Basically if your legs are broken? Or I guess the only time I ever use it/find it practical is if you don't want to take off your ski boots to drive, but need to hop in the car quick for whatever reason and drive somewhere..
- Premium Bose 'theater' HD surround sound system , XM radio, mount for iPad that connects/syncs wirelessly so you can sit shotty on longer car trips and get drunk,
- Entertainment system
- Elektronisches Stabilitätsprogramm / Stabilitrak advanced control recovery-traction sensing system (saved my life on the highway after hitting black ice) . Just is constantly calculating and sensing your driving and all the phsyics involved, road texture , speed etc.. so when your about to die and like overshooting a jump you just know your fucked before you even are off the lip... but in those situations , lukcily only had 1.. but it just literally throws you back onto the road and takes over all control over the car for only as long as it needs to. Good shit
- 4.2i liter some kind of extra acceleration thing i dont really know shit (5.3i model was too expensive, dont need it anyways. just waste more gas)
- Concealed , easy access Removable-updatable 7200rpm SATA hard-drive bay under the back seat, with extra space to add another drive. Kind of annoying when it occasionally gets loud or overheated and starts whirrrrrling and the fans get loud. never lasts more than 5 mins at its worst though... and rarely starts acting up.
- wood & leather trim on the side of all 4 doors, and in the general front interior area.
- the backseat folds down perfectly so that you can actually sleep in a queen sized inflatable air bed, stretch out completely, even for 3 people.. mad comfortable. I keep a queen airbed in the 'hidden' floor pannel in the floor of the trunk. And there is an expandable/retractable leather tent thing that normally is positioned behind the backseat , so it pulls out and covers whatever you have in the trunk... idunno could be contraband, a body, kilos, or just cause it looks nice and covers up the mess of clothes and ski shit you have in the trunk? I guess. But it also works when you have the car converted into a bed/for sleeping , so that it can be repositioned and clicked into 2 sets of otherwise not noticeable little notch things - thus basically can be used as a "tent" within the car, so you can have sex in public, or just block out the sun more , if you were trying to sleep in or something..
ight.... lol I probably wouldn't of read any of that myself if I was going through this thread. the air pump-hose-compressor is the only thing that is actually that dope... its a perfectly fine car though besides the gas cost. I found this bubble-thing so that I can actually blow rapid fire bubbles that are fucking massive like 10 foot bubbles.. but I'm not 12 and I don't think I'll ever have a justifiable amount of time/reason to blow giant bubbles with the compressor again.
- Still need to replace the standard saab/bose stereo/radio/media console with the best screen/navigation system... get around to it by the end of the summer. Could of gotten it , but would of been pushing it with the limit my old man had given me - and also the OEM Saab navigation/entertainment system kind of sucks... especially for the navigation. Better to have held off, and just add the best 3rd party navi system, that also matches the cars trim as much as possible. so much better.
- all the rest of the standard unnecessary but convenient/cool mid-priced-luxury car features
random iphone whip pics:
The aftermath of a crackhead raiding my car for valuables at 5:30 in the fucking evening on a beautiful day on Harvard St. (a very busy, tourist visited, prestigious main urban street) in front of my dads place... Someone was fucking fiending for rocks, seriously.. thats some hood ass shit to do in broad daylight minutes from Harvard university... I learned that you do it with a sparkplug - hit the glass with it a certain way, and the shatter-proof glass just falls away, and is almost silent.. Some real grimey hood shit
Go-pro-mounted-on-a-new-era-hat POV nascar mobbing to make it ontime
being ignorant through a golf course
cont. lil sisters friends = Dirty 8th grade sluts trying to get dick quick shockingly, girls are trying to cop D soo young these days and be straight forward about it.. really disturbing and get me arrested. instead, they scrub till the job is done. fucking lazy generation of kids. no future
my nig young Bell getting way too stressed out by Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2012... its a video game bro lol chillllll
keep Backstage Casting Couch season 1 on loop , never gets old , so offensive / hilarious , especially when u have random people in your backseat giving a ride
team mexican slaying it doing the damn thang
***^this completely pointless and time wasting post is a prime example of what happens when you take your prescribed long-acting dexedrine at 4pm in the day... lollll you go on newschoolers and post like you're 16 again for the first time in years
I'm sure theres a bunch of people on here who own 9-5s, but id be real curious to see if anyone else has a 9-7x. And don't start on the "Its just a way overpriced Trailblazer or normal GMC wrapped up in a fancy looking body and luxury interior" cause thats what haters will say, and I am aware that it is true basically... but it's w/e in the end I got WAY more features/options than I would of gotten for the same price if I had gotten a comparable-version of Lexus, benz, or an Audi SUV/crossover... and the most important part: a lot more reliable, and less played out? at least mayb a little .
I actually don't really know shit about cars and engines and all that.. I know how to check my oil and put in windsheild washer fluid. thats fine
oh.... and yeah, I know. I need to get a fucking Thule ski rack, i know.. procrastination to the fullest.
