Bought a Skoda recently and figured i'd need a flak jacket for all the jokes.
Had it just over a week and not one single Skoda joke. It's been in front of friends, work colleagues, family, even some guys at Knockhill race track... noone's cracked any Skoda jokes.
I feel let down now.
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Is there any reason why they should?
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should have bought a lada.
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Because they have long since stopped being a joke. I love my Fabia vrs to bits. Just come back from a Briskoda meet, a friend has just got an Octavia vrs 2.0 tdi cr DSG and it is a beautiful car.
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good news, i've just "invested" nearly £17k on a new octavia, so hopefully nobody takes the pee!
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I had an Octavia about nine years ago, and had no ribbing at all. Very old thinking, and quite a good car. Only got rid of it because the cam belt tensioner failed and it was never right after that.
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You have bought a skip on wheels with a heater on the back so it is warm when you push it :).
Do you feel better now?
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Around 90 to 95 per cent of the many, many taxi drivers in my area run Octavias and all of them love the cars to bits judging by conversations with them to or from home.
The majority are bought from a Glasgow source, which specialises in supplying such users.
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The only one even vaguely appropriate now is SKODA = Some Kind Of Downmarket Audi. And even then the oily bits are the same and the overall build quality only slightly inferior. An A4 Avant with the same mechanicals and trim as my Octavia is worth about £1,000 more, but costs an extra £6,500.
Diesel Car has just run a test of the Superb estate with the Mercedes C220 estate: they say that if the price had been the same the C220 would have beaten the Superb, but only very narrowly. Both cars were impressive generally. But the Mercedes costs £8,000 more, and reasonably enough Diesel Car doesn't think that can be justified.
It'll be interesting to see if taxi-drivers stay with diesels now that DPFs are standardised; the 1.4 TSI petrol might be an alternative if they want to stay with an Octavia. But it may be that CR diesels are better at regeneration than the PD.
Last edited by: Avant on Sun 9 May 10 at 12:58
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lol cheers Rattle
VAG group seem to be kinda shooting themselves in the foot with Skoda. I wonder if they'll spin them off again or just suffocate them with sanctions in an attempt to make the quality difference more apparent.
Ho hum. Buying a dacia duster soft-roader next. Autocar says you can have one just now in left hand drive via your local Renault dealer, special order.
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>> It'll be interesting to see if taxi-drivers stay with diesels now that DPFs are standardised;
What would be interesting is to know if Kia's Magentis Diesel is like Old Navy's Diesel Ceed, no DPF and no DMF, i see quite a few of these and Hyundai's Sonata badged as taxis now.
A regular techy poster (might be somewhere else, my memory) services a couple of these running as taxi's and has nothing but praise for them.
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>> A regular techy poster
Where is he? Has he changed his name and now lurking? I even went back to the old place for a scan through to see if he's back posting there but i didn't see him.
Always made insightful posts.
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EDIT: Here he is talking about servicing those Hyundai sonata's and funnily enough he ends by recommending a Skoda Octavia to the OP -- he's clairvoyant too... www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=82734
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Skoda jokes were always ridiculous and very seldom remotely funny. They were touted by the ignoramus Jasper Carrott and parroted by idiots like most of you here. They don't get made so much now because Skodas are VWs with a winsome Slavic image. Everyone thinks that makes them all right in a way that real Skodas weren't. As if that made a blind bit of difference to anyone but a schoolboy carphound.
Prats. Tchah!
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One of my - very few - claims to fame is that I believe I am the first journalist to have written the headline 'Skoda - the joking is over' - or something very like that. That was after a road test of the Favorit in 1989.
The other, which still features in my CV to head off possible criticism of my professional ability, is that I once successfully organised a booze up in a brewery.
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Ah well found CP, it was indeed WT to whom i referred.
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I remember the Favorit as being a good little car, on par with the Kia Rio now. A bit between sizes but none the worse for that. HAd a good aluminium engine in before VW ruined it I recall.
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badge snobbery has always been about am
theres them that know and theres them thats ignorant
ive just sold my old skoda felicia and i miss it already
a proper solid very driveable car in a world of tat
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I miss my Roomie - I was only looking yearningly at a Yeti in a Dealer yesterday.
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That's a coincidence PU. Been Yeti viewing today too. It would make a suitable replacement for your CRV wouldn't it ?
Still think she should have a Qubo.....shuffles off muttering about better uses for 5 grand.......
:-(
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He He.....I was riding past a dealer and my eyeline sort of lingered on a demo there........looked like what a Freelander should look like..
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i don't think VW has any plans to stifle Skoda, indeed Skoda does a lot of the engineering side of things for VW, such as developing the old 1.2 three pot, the new 1.2 TSI as well as gearboxes. i think Volkswagen and Audi have their place amongst the badge snobs and Skoda for people who want good quality and unpretentious transport. It is SEAT that seems to be in a bit of a muddle at the moment as to identity.
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> Skoda does a lot of the engineering side of things
I'd like to go visit the museum and do the factory tour, supposedly an education and a half in engineering.
Found a 1986 top gear review. Lada, Skoda, Yugo and FSO.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMKRhMBvkOc
The Skoda wins all the praise "...it's quite roomy, and it's by far the best finished of these Eastern Bloc cars, both in terms of the paint job and in terms of the interior trim. In fact it's pretty high standard..."
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Skoda Octavia II - Skoda Jokes - Stuartli
