Well thats good to hear. Bit of a punt really as we’ve never owned a Saab before but my wife has always wanted one. We’ve bought a 2010 93 convertible with only 53000 miles on it and one lady owner from new.
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Saabs are quirky, and don’t let anyone tell you it isn’t a proper Saab if it’s post the GM involvement. I had a '94 900 SE and it was one of the best cars I’ve ever had. Terrific seats. The ‘black panel’ amused me endlessly for some reason. I don’t know if that persisted into 2010 and the 9-3 convertible.
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If you mean the night time dash button, then yes it has got that. I’ve heard a lot of praise on the seats and it was certainly very comfortable on the test drive. We’re looking forward to having something a bit different.
Update…Death of the Convertible
Perhaps Not 
So, for health reasons I’ve had to temporarily bring Bullit down from the garage I’ve rented for her since 2019 to adjacent car park
Downside: anxiety because she was previously keyed and her soft-top slashed here plus the birds have ‘welcomed’ her back 
Upside: Get to use her solar panel to re-charge the battery when sun out = less anxiety… plus less exersion as she’s now within 20 feet as opposed to about a quarter of a mile away up a slight slope
Anyway…
Putting my re-cycling out yesterday evening and this young man approaches me
‘Is that your MX-5 …wow …that is one lovely car…you must get lots of admiration from people’
After about a 15 minute chat …where I was focused on what work still needed doing and what work had been done plus the pros and cons of MX-5 ownership…[you don’t realise how much you’ve learnt from being a member and on the Forum until you talk about a love of your life] 
Bless him…the lads’ eyes didn’t glaze over once 
I had seen him working on a mature 1.1 Citroen something
He explained he was a 17 year old apprentice motor mechanic working on his first car and he’d just changed its’ radiator 
We compared the cost of our motor insurance [3K for him and £181 fully comp for me aged 68 yrs] 
which made me think of Peter James Insurance and the young drivers mentioned in the STHT Magazine
I don’t have room to keep old copies…but, is it fate 
…latest edition arrived this morning and I was able to find a couple of references to young drivers aged 17 plus and Peter James advert showing consideration of same
So …guess who is gonna find my [read] copy of the mag under his windscreen wiper in a sealed plastic bag 
And he’s not been the first teenager to admire Bullit …
Death of the Convertible…me finks there is hope yet for the MX-5 at least 
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Mine actually had a lozenge shaped button on the dash with BLACK PANEL printed on it. I think they later changed it to NIGHT PANEL which reduced the charm a bit IMO.
Good on you @Bullit2005 !!!
You are a wonderful ambassador for the MX-5 brand that instills the love of the cars in a lot of us.
Keep up your good work please.
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Thank you …in similar vein reading the majority of posts on the Forum is a regular tonic 
[PS the STHT mag with note addressed to the young apprentice mechanic has gone from under the Citreons’ wiper !]
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Ah well, as long as we MX-5 owners enjoy our time in our cars … who cares, their loss 
Can’t be any more joy than lowering the roof on a sunny day and enjoying the open road, indeed.. use my car as a daily drive and even on a miserable northern day, it still brings joy when I fire up and drive off ..
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