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No joke as Skoda win What Car? award
Thursday 18th November 2010, 11:52AM GMT.
The popular Skoda Fabia vRS
The transformation of Skoda from the joke firm of yesteryear to What Car? award winners for 2010 should surprise no-one, writes motoring editor Pete Carroll.
The Czech manufacturer has comprehensively revitalised its range over the past decade since becoming part of the Volkswagen Audi Group.
Its “bread and butter” cars, the Fabia and Octavia, are competitive in their fields with the Octavia managing to pip the Golf for the best small family car title.
The estate version of the Octavia was voted a better load-lugger than either the Mondeo or Volvo V70 by What Car? readers.
Jeremy Clarkson confessed to being a huge fan of the new Yeti 4×4 when Top Gear Live called in a Birmingham at the weekend.
And it’s now clear that he’s not the only one.
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Im not in the least bit suprised, we own an old skoda and it has been a proper workhorse, its tough, reliable and can be just at home on a dirt track in Wales as it is on the tarmac streets of the Midlands, ( and its not even a 4 wheel drive ) ! ~I dont see the need for the “land rover type ” vehicles when our estate car can do just the same and more, I would not hesitate in buying skoda and would recommend them to anyone
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i have in the last 9 years owned 2 1.9 tdi skoda fabias, 1 new style 1.9 fabia, one 1.9 octavia and now i own yeti 4×4 and in those 9 years i have only had to replace a battery on one of the fabias otherwise 9 years trouble free years of happy motering i cant fault them.
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