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    Cool little wagon!

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    Fun Saab things.

    I need a roof rack to haul a kayak and/or a stand-up paddle board. My car doesn't have the long roof rails, just flip up panels to mount two cross bars.
    Check Thule's website, the cross bars can be had, but are $550-$750 for the set. Yikes, and the kayak/sup carriers are about $250 each.
    I spend the evening confirming that Saab bars exist, they must, right? They do! I found a Sportcombi for sale with the Saab cross bars on CarGurus. Then I pick through and search Saab product catalogs and finally find them, success!
    The Saab cross bars are $155...and made by Thule. The Saab Kayak holder is $176.

    Long live the Swedes.

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    Yea went through that with the CR-V when I was looking for rails. It was either Chinese knock offs for 40, oem for 200 if I could find them, or Thule setup for like 700.

    I went with the knock offs just because I am only doing it for looks anyway.

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    I looked on eBay and most of the results were non-loadbearing stick on rails.

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    The Saab is never not fun.

    Went down to Tennesse for some kayaking a few weeks ago. Despite being a little turbo 4 banger with a billboard on the roof it climbed mountains and cruised the interstate at 80+ just fine.

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    Love a good turbo 4 with midrange grunt for mountain passes. How much booost does that thing run?

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    It's modest, something like 8lbs.

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    Less than I would have thought. The compression ratio must be decent. It's too old to be direct injected I imagine.

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    I *think* Isuzu did DI back in the early to mid 00's.

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    The Isuzu Axiom had it in 2004, while in Europe and Japan, Mitsubishi and others were doing gasoline DI as early as 1996.

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