Used Car of the Day: 2008 Saab 9-3 2.0T

by Tim Healey

Published: June 26th, 2023

We haven't featured a Saab in UCOTD in a while, so here's one. This 2008 Saab 9-3 reminds me that Saab still existed 15 years ago.

Four grand gets you this car, which has 140,000 miles and has had a Vtuner Stage 0 since there were 25,000 miles on the clock. There's not much more to the ad copy than the fact that there's an in-dash Nexus 7.

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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Heron on Jun 29, 2023

With a turbo just change the oil every 5,000 miles. 2001 9-3 with 152k and parts are still pretty available. Maybe because of the GM connection.

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Graeme on Jul 02, 2023

I have a 2004 convertible and it looks like a 5 year old car

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