soren2

Sh!te! There is one too!! Spare?

D'oh... you little....

Come and have a holiday in Sydney. Boy, will you be glad when you return to Blighty.

Gawd, you're a friendly lot! Thanks. Picked it up this afternoon. I am not used to driving a manual car so I kangarood it about 3-4 times (small boys giggling in the back, wife grinning in the Mitsubishi behind). It is great, the boys like it. They keep saying: "Skoda! Love that car!" The dealer said it does not need to be run in, just drive it. (True?) Or to be serviced at all before 15,000 kms or 1 year. Unless something starts rattling or lights up on the dashboard. Sounds like a small truck (it's diesel). Love it.

Hello, g'day and dobrý večer from Sydney. I have been driving a Mitsubishi Magna V6 station wagon for about 10 years now but tomorrow I am picking up my new 2007 Octavia TDi 1Z (last in stock at the dealer, massive savings). Have I done the right thing? I know next to nothing about cars (except what you learn while researching what car to buy) and bought the Skoda to have a European holiday every time I drive to work (and to remember the unbearable lightness of being. "I am thinking how happy I am".) Really looking forward to tomorrow. Feel like a boy again.Glad to have found this place. Cheers, Soren

I am picking up my first Skoda tomorrow in Sydney (2007 Ambiente TDI). Last is stock so they gave me a great deal (30% off original price of $30K). I asked the usual questions about service and prospects. The dealer said that the terms of entry into OZ included the commitment that parts and service will be available for at least 15 years if SKoda pulls out of Oz again. He added that obviously VW is not going anywhere even if Skoda bails out and since Skoda is fully owned by VW, there should not be any concern about ongoing service and so forth. Who buys a Skoda? I asked. " Educated Europeans who have done their research on cars."