What do we think of Skodas?
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I'm referring to previous threads. Sadly you've only been around long enough to post crap in this one.
Reliability - including chances of a problem and cost to repair if there is one. Fuel economy. Also they might consider how visually appealing it is to themselves.
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To be honest I cant think of anything you'd suggest as a credible motorway car thats going to have reliability issues on a Motorway journey
Visual appeal?
You mean somebody might go 'I need a car purely for going up and down Motorways. I could chose this <insert generic Motorway car here, lets say.. I dunno, Merc E Class? VW Pheaton? anything> but no, this little Skoda is more asthetically pleasing so I'll pick that to spend hours sat in doing 70mph'.
Surely if a Motorway driver was concerned about asthetics they'd be interior not exterior given the amount of time he'd spend looking at the interior. Are you suggesting a Fabia is a good looking car?
Because the vrs is more powerful, hardly rocket science is it?
The cooper is a girly shopping car and the S is the proper performance variant. Just like the vRS is the performance variant of the Fabia.
Cooper and vRS are about the same price new, the S is around £4k more, so I can see why they put them together.
Edit: Loki101 has already pointed that out
Cooper and vRS are about the same price new, the S is around £4k more, so I can see why they put them together.
Edit: Loki101 has already pointed that out
So can I, but as we know the Mini is expensive for what it is and price doesn't always equal direct comparison. Nor should Top Gear be taken seriously
[TW]Fox;15676054 said:To be honest I cant think of anything you'd suggest as a credible motorway car thats going to have reliability issues on a Motorway journey
I can't either, but what i'm trying to say is, you don't want to buy a car to do 20K a year plus only to have it break down all the time, do you?
It's down to the driver surely, and is the point of asking to take it on a good solid test drive so that you can find out for yourself.
there isnt a current fabia vrs..the old one is just that..its old
the pd diesel is noisy and rough and the interior is years old
the facelift octavia and the current superb and genuinely good cars, they are comfortable, well built and nice places to sit. (obviously depending the the spec you pic!)
standard kit is excellent, the touch screen stereo is a real peach
I had a sit in the yeti recently as well and again it was a pleasant, solid and well laid out interior, and although not seen one int he metal the superb estate really looks like a winner, much better looking than the oddly proportioned hatch/saloon funny boot thing! and with a 140 or 170 cr diesel and 4 wheel drive it will be ideal for antique dealers everywhere even more so with the demise of volvo
if only they would do the 4 wheel drove for the octavia vrs!
the pd diesel is noisy and rough and the interior is years old
the facelift octavia and the current superb and genuinely good cars, they are comfortable, well built and nice places to sit. (obviously depending the the spec you pic!)
standard kit is excellent, the touch screen stereo is a real peach
I had a sit in the yeti recently as well and again it was a pleasant, solid and well laid out interior, and although not seen one int he metal the superb estate really looks like a winner, much better looking than the oddly proportioned hatch/saloon funny boot thing! and with a 140 or 170 cr diesel and 4 wheel drive it will be ideal for antique dealers everywhere even more so with the demise of volvo
if only they would do the 4 wheel drove for the octavia vrs!
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The vRS has a rear beam whilst the 4x4 has fully independant rear suspension.
If you are looking at the cars with the view point of modifying them the 4x4 is the better starting point whilst the vRS doesn't look quite so much like a mini cab. That said, I did have someone try and jump in the back when sat in the city waiting to pick my gf up before slurring "your not a ******* taxi" then stumbling off
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Current Octavia vRS interior is not bad but feels a bit cheap. The annoying thing is it feels deliberately cheap, like VW have said 'you MUST make it feel cheap so not to intrude on Golf sales'. Things like deliberately crud plastics and a stupid little strap to close the boot rather than a proper handle.
back to topic.
For that sort of money you can get a very nice 3 series, A4, passat, X-type
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not sure where these cheap plastics are...the dash and doors in the facelift are all this soft touch stuff, the only hard plastic on view is the housing of the gear lever and the glove box, the main dash,instrument cluster and stereo/climate controls are all in the soft touch style, its matt and soft not hard and shiny
they even improved the silver trim, so its textured rather than flat plastic, it has a brushed look to it now (again this is in the vrs so other spec models maybe are different) all the controls are straight VAG, the climate unit is the same across the range be it golf or scirroco (event he R32 uses the same unit, though its gloss black I think)
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Conflicting information on this.
I've seen the 170ps and 160ps 1.4TSI engines suggested, and i've also seen the 170ps TDI suggested as well.
Your anti-diesel remarks are amusing as well as crap though, please keep going.
its only tougue in cheek..the current 170cr diesel across the VAG range is a really strong engine, it works well in any vehicle they put it in especially with the DSG box, it becomes a very easy car to drive
It is subtle stuff which just gives an overall feeling that the car is less premium than its VW cousin.
It has always been the case with the Octavia and Golf but at least now the vRS doesn't have daft coloured seats and carpets. Got to say that pic of the facelift mk2 (or mk 2.5) does look very tempting