lukebgm

Wanted to just thank you guys, took it for a test drive but ended up going to the upper end of my budget for a 68 plate Octavia Estate instead, had a better spec and ticked more boxes in terms of daily practicality. Appreciate everyone that responded to the thread, happy to join you guys in owning what seems to be a great car :)

It's the 6 speed manual 1.6 TDI that I'm looking at

Hey, So I'm in the market for a new car, up until now I've been driving a Peugeot 307 (which is slowly falling to pieces). I've found a decent deal on a 16 plate superb with only 25k on the clock. With my second nipper on the way along with things like putting my bike in the back of the car & being an avid multi day hiker the boot size and mpg seem to be all winners. This will however be the only car for the house and I'm wondering about the practicality of it in everyday use? It's just the S version that I've found in budget so no parking sensors or anything. I was hoping if anyone here could give some anecdotal pros and cons. I have viewed it and I know it's a bit long but it doesn't seem overly wide. I'm not averse to parking further away at shops and places like that anyway but I'm assuming with no parking sensors multi stories are going to be interesting/no go zones? Also if anyone has any experience of taking it down some more narrow country lanes (talking places like Brecon Beacons or the Lake District) that would be extremely helpful as I'm usually up and around these places once a month when there isn't a pandemic going on. Obviously going to test drive it to get a feel for it anyway but you can't always cover every base in a half hour test drive, it's always better to go in with some advice than go into it blindly. I'm not incredibly restricted by time if I have to find something else more appropriate but I would quite like to get something sorted this side of xmas and the Superb seems to tick an awful lot of boxes.