Awed

You've talked me out of it. Thanks to all who commented!

I see that as a factory option too. As @KeteCantek said, an armrest is a deal breaker for me! I just wouldn't know what to do with my left elbow otherwise.

My wife would love a Citigo. But I'm trying to avoid becoming a multi-car household!

@Gerrycan Thanks for the correction! It's almost as if you can't believe everything Google spits out at you....

Thanks for your input, and you too @penguin17, @silver1011 and everyone else who commented. I've never been disappointed in these forums and you've all raised great points. As a couple of you have mentioned, maybe the Kamiq is worth considering. Smaller, but not too small. My wife would prefer the Fabia though - or even a Citigo!

I'd not really considered that model, I get lost with all these new K Skodas....what are they, Kayak, Kagool, Koala?....but that is definitely food for thought. Let me mull that. You may have found a happy medium, like Derek Acorah on weed.

Thanks...hmmm, a pity, the 110 would have been a nice option. So far the balance of opinions is "Don't trade down!" I'll probable end up changing to a Kodiaq.

All excellent points, thank you. Yes, that issue of refinement is a very important one. A rattly, noisy car can be very stressful. The Superb is so dreamy in its smoothness and quietness. I would miss it.

http://cc-cloud.skoda-auto.com/gbr/gbr/en-gb/nj3/62210#!cc-instance=GBR&cc-salesprogram=GBR&cc-culture=en-gb&cc-model=NJ3&cc-carline=62210&cc-equipment=&cc-motor=208864&cc-color=8T1Z&cc-interior=BP&cc-packages=&cc-view=step5&cc-configurationId=0&cc-viewstate={"lastConfigurationHash"%3A"7_M4_BP_8T1Z_"} Scroll down, rear disc brakes are there. I think that configurtor is garbage though, because I choose a Monte Carlo and it says there is one engine choice, 1.0 TSI 95 PS...surely the MC is using the 110 PS engine? Hmm, maybe not... https://www.skoda.co.uk/new-cars/fabia/hatch-monte-carlo says 95...confused. (But on that same page it says front and rear discs are standard, so the configurator IS a piece of crap.)

Exactly my fear. The grass is always greener....my thinking was to use money saved on PCP payments to hire a larger car on those occasions when I needed the space or for a long motorway trip, but you can't always plan ahead, can you? Point taken about the 110 PS engine vs the 95. That should be 33% better power-to-weight ratio (110/1100 vs 150/2000) than a 150PS Superb.

Odd. I was using the configure your car facility on the Skoda website. They were only £100 extra, which struck me as very cheap.

Interesting! Also @gumdrop...two positives, and a negative experience from @boydeee ! Thanks for the feedback!

Yeah, I was playing with the "configure your car" website and by the time I'd added onto the Fabia Monte Carlo all the things I wanted it came to, ahem £21K. OK, I'd gone a bit overboard...panoramic sunroof, rear view camera, heated washer nozzles, voice control..(in other words, all the things I have on the Superb [apart from the sunroof])...£3.5K worth of options. Madness. But I'd feel cheated without them! Even rear disc brakes are an option. Given that I've had to replace rusted rear discs on an Octavia and a Superb I'm not even sure that would be a sound choice, but drum brakes feel very old school. Like a starting handle.

70% of my journeys are commutes to and from work on a mixture of urban roads and rural B-roads. I don't do a lot of motorway driving, maybe 1500 - 2000 miles a year. But I take to heart what you say, it is a concern...a wee car is not good in a crash at 70.

I currently have a 1.4 TSI DSG Superb estate, purchased from new on a PCP scheme about 20 months ago. And I love it! Best car I have ever owned. But...do I really need a car this size? By my reckoning I do 90% of journeys on my own with no more luggage than a jacket and a sandwich. Sure, on a handful of days I fill the car to the brim - taking garden rubbish to university or my son to the dump...but it is on a handful of days per year and no more. So now I am wondering if I could approach Skoda and ask to swap cars to - don't laugh - a Fabia, something highly specced (cos otherwise I would miss my gadgets and goodies) but way smaller. And if I can do that, and pay less per month on the PCP, then on the few days I need a big car I could hire one, and overall be no worse off. Plus, I'd have easier parking, slightly lower running costs and feel less guilty about driving two tonnes of metal around when one tonne would do perfectly well. Has anyone ever done this? How ammenable are Skoda dealers (and Skoda finance) to this? If you did do it, did you regret trading down? Obviously I can just go to my dealer and ask but I wanted to see what people think. I've no way of knowing how to compute how much equity I have in my car...presumably it's in negative equity since I'm only half way through my 4 year PCP term, but PCP deals seem to belong to a realm of hyper mathematics once salesmen get involved. If I have to pay a new deposit or see no decrease in my monthly payments it's clearly not going to be worth it, I'll ride out the full 4 year term and see what offers are on the table then. Thoughts?