So you Sweeds think you are sooo smart.

[Sethos]

Semi-recently-ish the Swedes got the award for the best educated students...apparently they were able to find all the countries asked for on a globe while many other countries were unable to do as many if any at all...

ACHOO! yes I have sneezed...

~Sethos

[Technoid]

Originally posted by Dr Mordrid
My Volvo 242 had a ventilation fan that blew out every 3 months like clockwork.

Given that its motor was at least 3x undersized and built like one of those original cheapo tin-can style slot car motors that wasn't much of a suprise

What made it worse was that it took almost 3 hours to replace the damned thing. In most American cars the fan motor is mouted on the motor side of the firewall and takes about 10 minutes to replace....after about 10 years of use.

Dr. Mordrid

Usualy Volvomotors are harder to kill than 'roaches

Originally posted by Gurm
Well if it was an actual 242 then that's a pretty old model. They figured a lot of that stuff out, and frankly anything involving making the car COOLER is an afterthought. We're talking about a country where the WARMEST it ever gets is "roll down the windows honey it's above freezing!".

- Gurm

Now you are overexhagerating

Originally posted by az
Are Saab fighter planes any good?

I have switched to Opera 7.

AZ

at the latest joint training NATO had they scared the **** out of the visiting american fighter jokeys

"No way, making handbrake turns with a fighter plane is impossible" one of them remarked

[Nowhere]

az, Technoid - yeah...pretty good machines - I still think that chosing F16s was mainly political decision...

[Novdid]

Originally posted by Gurm
Well if it was an actual 242 then that's a pretty old model. They figured a lot of that stuff out, and frankly anything involving making the car COOLER is an afterthought. We're talking about a country where the WARMEST it ever gets is "roll down the windows honey it's above freezing!".

- Gurm

That's a misconception(sp?), we don't have any arcticbears walking our streets. The wheather in southern Sweden where 90% of the population lives (Stockholm and south) is very "british-like" actually. Still not good, but acceptable...

[rubank]

Yes, swedes are smart alright.
Apart from obvious highlights like the propeller, automatic lighthouses, ball bearings, C E Johanssons industrial measuring system (mått-Johans passbitar in swedish) and the adjustable wrench - things like computer colour graphics and the mouse are swedish inventions.

After having lived with several Audis for 15 years I now have a Volvo and a Saab 9-5. And the Oscar goes to...
SAAB. It´s just the way to tour.

rubank

[Novdid]

Originally posted by Nowhere
az, Technoid - yeah...pretty good machines - I still think that chosing F16s was mainly political decision...

That is very true, the JAS 39 Gripen is much more advanced than the F16.

But then again I don't like that the government sell weaponry to other countries, while at same time they try to be extremely pro peace. Well, well, you can't have everything, they make great profit on fighters I guess...

Keep in mind BTW that Ford only owns 50% of Volvo cars, and that GM only owns the car making section of Saab.

One more thing, the Saab 9-5 is a damn good car.

[az]

And what about IKEA furniture?

AZ

[KvHagedorn]

Originally posted by Sethos
Semi-recently-ish the Swedes got the award for the best educated students...apparently they were able to find all the countries asked for on a globe while many other countries were unable to do as many if any at all...

ACHOO! yes I have sneezed...

~Sethos

Yes, but what are they teaching them?

[Gurm]

I may be exaggerating, but not by much. Air conditioners were a "dealer add-in" for Volvos until the early 90's. Volvo America forced the Swedish design engineers to go for a ride in a 740 with a dealer-added A/C through Death Valley.

They quickly designed a real system.

I have spoken.

- Gurm

[RedRed]

I think that Saab was the first production car to have a turbo fitted with the saab 900...

RedRed

[VJ]

Wasn't Saab the first to use the double-delta wing design on an airplane (thought I saw a documentary on that) ?

By the way, Saab cars are becoming increasingly more popular here in Belgium (one of the few makes that actually has better sales over the last year).

(I like the Saab models.... ).

I have no original "I have ..."-line.


Jörg

[Schorsch]

Originally posted by Gurm
When did GM buy Saab?

And Saabs are... ok. They're just weird, and the 93 (formerly known as the 900) seems to go horribly wrong at exactly 8 years of age, but they do seem to live forever if you can get them beyond that point.

Saab was taken over by GM in 1990. And their cars may be weird but I like my Saab 9000 exactly the way it is - and I'd NEVER trade it in for a Volkswagen or a Ford...

[rubank]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn
Yes, but what are they teaching them?

Among other things, that the earth consist of a great number of counties inhabited by people that not necessarily want to be subject to your general way of life.

@ Gurm:
entering Death Valley, shouldn´t you be prepared to get fried?

rubank

[Fogel]

Originally posted by Technoid
Usualy Volvomotors are harder to kill than 'roaches

Yep, here is an example of that. Two million miles isn't that bad.

[Gurm]

I think they were talking about a blower motor, not the motor of the car.

I have spoken.

- Gurm