Friday, 15 March 2013

Driven: Skoda Octavia


Drove the all-new Skoda Octavia yesterday, hence no blog. Picked the likely top-seller as my test car – the 1.6-litre 1.05bhp diesel – and overall I think it’s a decent bit of kit. It’s certainly comfortable, roomy and with plenty of standard equipment on it. The big disappointment for me was the ride. I found it unsettled on anything less than the smoothest tarmac, and didn’t feel it soaked up the bumps and lumps of back roads very well at all. My other concern is how it fits into the Skoda range. The company puts the Rapid in the C-segment and the Octavia in the D, but with only 17cm in length between them that’s an ambitious segregation. I wonder if potential customers will notice at all.

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