BUT.. of the pre-US merger and transmogrification - about whose reliabilty (accessibility for service?) I know virtually nada.

The Model 99 was spawned in '69, building a modrin-shape car augmenting the then still-produced legendary, but bathtub-shaped 96s (Ford V-4s!) of Monte Carlo Rallye fame. Swedish engineers descended from the aircraft part of S.A.A.B. They Loved Us and wanted us alive to buy a replacement after some er.. lapse.

(I believed that before I picked up my first 99 in Malm\ufffd; can testify to 2 examples, incl. a SO's adventure with a Mexican road-bank / no shoulders.)

So.. let us know if you spring for a late one. My bet - it will go where you point it and also stop. (Even if the ads say silly things now about Turbos and Elites and Yuppidity runamok)


Cheers,
Ashton

..but my '94 Acura Plutocrat is still likely to nip you at the top end ;-)