Helldad
14-09-2012, 11:53 PM
Hi people.
Found this forum (Google is my friend) as a result of researching daytime running lights, and already spent a couple of hours reading all kinds of interesting stuff.
We got our Skoda Octavia TDI103 liftback (MY12) back in May 2012. We looked at a Jetta but concluded the Octavia had more bang per buck.
We love it - it replaces a 2002 Corolla wagon which is still in the family, my son now has it. Our other car is a 2004 Ford Territory AWD which we used to regard as our "main" vehicle, but that has now changed - the Territory is now "the truck" and used almost exclusively for hauling band equipment to gigs - its fuel consumption is roughly 250% more than the Skoda.
I wanted a diesel as a result of a couple of trips we've done in Europe back in 2005 and 2007. On both trips we drove around in smallish diesels and liked them a lot. One was a Renault Laguna in Italy, and the other was a Volvo in Ireland.
Assuming we regard the Skoda as a VW variant, then this isn't our first VW - that was back in 1979 when we we were "travelling in a fried out Kombi" for a few months in Europe, but perhaps that doesn't count because it wasn't water cooled. :)
Found this forum (Google is my friend) as a result of researching daytime running lights, and already spent a couple of hours reading all kinds of interesting stuff.
We got our Skoda Octavia TDI103 liftback (MY12) back in May 2012. We looked at a Jetta but concluded the Octavia had more bang per buck.
We love it - it replaces a 2002 Corolla wagon which is still in the family, my son now has it. Our other car is a 2004 Ford Territory AWD which we used to regard as our "main" vehicle, but that has now changed - the Territory is now "the truck" and used almost exclusively for hauling band equipment to gigs - its fuel consumption is roughly 250% more than the Skoda.
I wanted a diesel as a result of a couple of trips we've done in Europe back in 2005 and 2007. On both trips we drove around in smallish diesels and liked them a lot. One was a Renault Laguna in Italy, and the other was a Volvo in Ireland.
Assuming we regard the Skoda as a VW variant, then this isn't our first VW - that was back in 1979 when we we were "travelling in a fried out Kombi" for a few months in Europe, but perhaps that doesn't count because it wasn't water cooled. :)