IT'S been a while since I've made a car joke, but I'll have a go anyway. What do you call a Skoda with an open sunroof? Expensive.If I'd tried 15 years ago I could have nonchalently just said “a skip” and brought the house down, but there's the rub; Skoda just don't make joke cars anymore.
This is just one of the things I've worked out after spending a week with a Yeti, which sounds like an elusive snowman but is in fact what happens if you were to stick an SUV in the wash on too hot a setting. It looks, sounds and acts like a much smaller Land Rover Discovery but absolutely everyone who came across it loved it.
I got it instantly; it's a car for taking dogs to the countryside. Much like a Discovery then, but much, much cheaper.
It's the same story with Skoda's other cars; step out of Carlisle railway station and hail a cab and it's almost always a white Octavia that'll pick you up, because the drivers and taxi firms swear by them. When I was lucky enough to sit alongside a North Wales Police traffic cop on a high speed chase along the A55 last year, it was an Octavia vRS they entrusted with the task. And it's amazing how driving instructors favour Fabias over Fiestas for a spot of low speed kerb-clipping.
In fact the only problem with Skoda is some of the silly options pricing, which meant with all the bells and whistles the particular Yeti I drove was a £22,000 car, with most of the money going towards a spectacular-but-silly sunroof and a £1,400 satnav system which you don't need. In fact, I'd rather throw the money at the four-wheel-drive system and make it a proper off-roader.
If I were sensible I'd buy a Skoda tomorrow, but I'm not, which I've wasted my hard-earned on another clapped-out classic.
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>>step out of Carlisle railway station and hail a cab and it's almost always a white Octavia that'll pick you up, because the drivers and taxi firms swear by them.::
ReplyDeleteAs the Champion has a large office on Lord Street, Southport, I'm amazed that you presumably haven't noticed that approximately four out of five standard vehicle type taxis in the town are Octavias (plus the odd Superb).
It's been like that for many years; the drivers swear by them for their build quality, reliability, practicality and economical operation.
Most seem to be acquired new from a Glasgow company specialising in dealing with taxi companies or drivers.
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