There are a few disappointing things about living in Finland one of which is loosing to Sweden in ice-hockey. It's amazing how the Swedes always... any way, the other one is the car prices. The high prices on cars here is mostly down to the huge taxes we pay on them. That is why car some Finish car enthusiasts import their cars from Germany, Sweden or Estonia.
Well, my father decided that he will now buy the car he has been drooling over for the last couple of years. This meant loosing precious sleep while browsing used car-websites both local and ones advertising cars in other countries. The car he wanted for himself was a Saab 9-3 Aero V6 sport sedan with a manual gearbox. This search proved difficult since most of the V6 9-3's are estates (or sportcombi) and automatic. Preferable was also that the car would have a sunroof.
Sweden was the first place to look. Here Saabs are cheap, since there are probably a million of them, and the probability of finding a V6 manual sedan was higher. When looking at the price differences of Saabs between Finland and Sweden lets just say that the Finish market was out of the question. My father waited patiently, but hardly no V6 manual sedan showed up in the Swedish classifieds. This meant that the quick glances at websites ending in .de became stares.
As we know Germany has virtually no tax on their cars and they usually take care of them quite methodically *insert a German stereotype joke here*. The price range therefore was optimal but still manual V6 sedans were scarce. One though stood out from the rest. V6 *check* manual *check* sedan *check* sunroof *gasp check*. Every box was ticked in the options list and in the list that my father had dreamed of (and probably written down some sleepless night).
So...
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| In wonderful Jet Black |
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