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[Jim82]

Interesting article here showing how much power you can get out of an Ellesmere V6 if you're willing to spend the money!

https://www.saabplanet.com/unleashing-the-beast-a-street-legal-700hp-saab-9-3-aero-sportsedan-for-sale/

[Viral_Jim]

Quite amazing, but honestly I don't understand why you would do this. The 9-3 is a pretty mediocre thing inside and to look at, and I can only imagine 700hp through the front wheels is fairly awful.

For the money I would have thought a mildly tuned C/E 63 amg would be better in just about every respect 

[Doctor Gollum]

Didn't they do an AWD 9-3 just before they went pop?

Basically the running gear from the Insignificant VXR iirc.

[Viral_Jim]

They did. Iirc you had the choice of manual or auto and 2.0T or 2.8T petrol engines (not sure about a diesel option).

[Jim82]

Quite amazing, but honestly I don't understand why you would do this. The 9-3 is a pretty mediocre thing inside and to look at, and I can only imagine 700hp through the front wheels is fairly awful.

For the money I would have thought a mildly tuned C/E 63 amg would be better in just about every respect 

I had a 9-3 2.8T a few years back and it was a great car. It was about 250bhp, you could probably get 300bhp quite easily but I don't why anyone would want/need much more power than that.