I say get the FA*28-70 and watch the Canon shooters twitch - they cannot comprehend another brand having silver lens bodies....

Did you buy it? no longer available....

F A B U L O U S!

I'd give Cambrian photography in Colwyn Bay a shout - sometimes they have a good selection of used lenses - prices are reasonable.

I've used the FA*28-70 on mine and had no problems with it at all.... Just a pain when using Lee Filters due to the rotating front element.

The Triumph engine was probably the shortest lived collaboration - the 2.0 litre was very different to the 1.7 and 1.85s that were shared with the Dolomite.....Scania took on the engineering from the early 1970s - without that there would've been no Turbo.

Don't forget.....

Fiat - for the later diesels
Isuzu for the V6 diesel

Before the whole concern went bankrupt, the plan was to use BMW engines to replace the GM units....

I think you're alone in this regard.... The Nikkor 200-500 seems to have a better reputation than the 80-400 (new one) and the 200-400 f4. A fast prime, although a much better bet, is at least 3-4x more expensive than the 200-500 (or 150-450 at the 'special' price - I really hope I haven't missed the boat with the special offers...)

Considering most of the cars were 96 or 95 V4s - these (and the gorgeous red Sonnet) are powered by the Ford Cologne V4 from the Taunus 12M

The stub nose 95/96 and the red 92B are powered by a two-stroke engine designed by DKW (what eventually became today's Audi).

The MCY 900 Turbo 16S Cabrio - built in Finland (as might some of the 96s)

The upside down 96 - I thought that was a tribute to the rally driver Eric Carlsson.

Cheers Vic

My Dad had 13 Saabs altogether - I am on my 4th - the new generation 9-5, I love it.

Extreme Pro or equivalent. I am a bit blase about card unless both cards fail simultaneously.

Sandisk Extreme Pro 32mb 95 mb/sec are insanely cheap these days, I paid £15-20 for the last ones I bought at Focus/Societies. Even on K-1 it takes a long time to fill slot 1 with RAWS.

I always shoot RAW slot 1 JPEG slot 2.

That's old tech for you taking a set of Lee Filters on holidays with K-1 and FA*28-70 was highly entertaining an ultimately frustrating experience.

Sigma 15-30 or 17-35 maybe? I had the 15-30 and it is much smaller and lighter than the D-FA (although I sold the Sigma about 10 years ago when I was having a clearout of lenses as I had so much overlap). At one time I owned 15-30, 24-70, 20, 70-200 and 100-300 plus F35-70, FA24-90. Until 2 years ago I owned only DA*16-50 and DA*60-250 plus a lot of FA/FA* primes 24, 31, 35, 43, 50 (2), 77, 85, 100, 135, 300.

Like othe Peter, I stupidly regret selling the FA24-90.

But I would check out the superwide Sigma zooms, or persevere with the crop mode until the time comes you can afford the D-FAs.