RedRoomy
17-06-2013, 03:30 PM
Hi all,
Got our Roomster on May 8th and both me and my wife are loving it.
It's quite simply the best car for the money that I can see, we had a look at all the other sub-$25k hatchbacks and they all felt cramped and claustrophobic compared with the Roomster.
The kids love having the big windows to see out of.
We used to have a Renault Scenic and basically wanted something similar, with the flexibility of removable seats and a spacious roofline but nothing else in the market offers that in Australia.
In Europe, i'd be looking at a choice of a whole pile of cars with similar space and functionality - Golf Plus, Touran, C-Max, Scenic, Picasso, Berlingo Multispace, Kangoo, Altea, Zafira, etc, etc
Here, there's nothing. Apart from the unloved middle child, the Roomster. Most people in Australia (it seems) have barely even heard of Skoda, never mind the Roomster when we tell them what we bought.
The 1.2 TSI engine is a little cracker, and it just makes me laugh in Sport mode, it's so eager and spools up to gather pace surprisingly quickly.
We got a great deal on it as well, dealer was pretty good, but has been a touch average on follow up of things since purchase.
Don't know what the sales figures have been like in April/May/June, but looking at the data from past years and the first quarter of this year, we are only one of about 300 brave (stupid) people to have bought a Roomster in total, over both pre and post facelift versions. It's like we've joined an exclusive club. We'd been looking at the Roomster since March and could not recall seeing one on the road ever, then finally apart from the one we took for a test drive and our own, we finally saw 2 within a week, a silver one at Sydney Park and a Red one in Ultimo/Haymarket.
We looked at the 77tsi Yeti and 77tsi Mk6 Golf and came pretty close, but they were just that bit more enclosed feeling in the back than the Roomster was. We may regret that when it comes to the end of the 3 year lease and we look at trade-in or buy-back $$$ but we're comfortable with it for now.
Not quite getting the hoped for fuel economy at this stage, dunno whether the engine will free up as they used to say or whether this is it, but neither me nor my wife are sympathetic drivers, but it's still a big improvement over the Scenic.
Got our Roomster on May 8th and both me and my wife are loving it.
It's quite simply the best car for the money that I can see, we had a look at all the other sub-$25k hatchbacks and they all felt cramped and claustrophobic compared with the Roomster.
The kids love having the big windows to see out of.
We used to have a Renault Scenic and basically wanted something similar, with the flexibility of removable seats and a spacious roofline but nothing else in the market offers that in Australia.
In Europe, i'd be looking at a choice of a whole pile of cars with similar space and functionality - Golf Plus, Touran, C-Max, Scenic, Picasso, Berlingo Multispace, Kangoo, Altea, Zafira, etc, etc
Here, there's nothing. Apart from the unloved middle child, the Roomster. Most people in Australia (it seems) have barely even heard of Skoda, never mind the Roomster when we tell them what we bought.
The 1.2 TSI engine is a little cracker, and it just makes me laugh in Sport mode, it's so eager and spools up to gather pace surprisingly quickly.
We got a great deal on it as well, dealer was pretty good, but has been a touch average on follow up of things since purchase.
Don't know what the sales figures have been like in April/May/June, but looking at the data from past years and the first quarter of this year, we are only one of about 300 brave (stupid) people to have bought a Roomster in total, over both pre and post facelift versions. It's like we've joined an exclusive club. We'd been looking at the Roomster since March and could not recall seeing one on the road ever, then finally apart from the one we took for a test drive and our own, we finally saw 2 within a week, a silver one at Sydney Park and a Red one in Ultimo/Haymarket.
We looked at the 77tsi Yeti and 77tsi Mk6 Golf and came pretty close, but they were just that bit more enclosed feeling in the back than the Roomster was. We may regret that when it comes to the end of the 3 year lease and we look at trade-in or buy-back $$$ but we're comfortable with it for now.
Not quite getting the hoped for fuel economy at this stage, dunno whether the engine will free up as they used to say or whether this is it, but neither me nor my wife are sympathetic drivers, but it's still a big improvement over the Scenic.