Frank Bullitt

Good for you

I can't find any details on the SE Plus on the Skoda web site. Does anyone have a definitive list of how it differs from the SE or is it just sat-nav, picnic tables and the curtains in my local Indian Restaurant for seat material? In December 1981 my Dad bought a brand new Visa Special with the flat-twin 652cc engine - it was glacial but charming. Well, the crank speed sensor went every 9 months but carrying a spare in the boot made that easier to live with.

It has everything to do with understanding organisations have different departments that do different things that have different targets that fit into the overall objectives of the organisation.

Not so. The establishment will pay utilities and, depending upon whether it is owned or rented, capital charges or rental on the space, plus the cost of servicing it. It sounds like her employer needs to establish whether having meeting space is cost effective and if not 1) change the asset into a more profitable income generation opportunity...education...perhaps 2) dispose of it or 3) rent it out to a 3rd party. Likewise, she needs to consider if renting space off-site is more cost-effective in respect of the non-productive element for her and colleagues v the effectiveness of paying a premium for easily-accessible meeting space. Renting meeting space at a local hub may indeed prove better VFM overall, but she needs to factor in the real cost of non-productive time, not just the room rate... And yes, I am an Estates Manager in the Public Sector and yes, it is about time people understood the real cost of running a business

The problem is, they are all different departments within the dealership so if you want things doing as part of the deal it has to be negotiated up-front as they know how much money they can put into the deal with the workshop and so-on; each department will have its own income targets, budgets and expenditure and performance against these will be monitored against each other and, more importantly, with respective departments within the network doing the same function - your local dealers aftersales lead will not look very clever if (s)he continually has a higher cost base and lower income because they don't keep the sales team honest with dealer-fit options. Unfortunately, as you have signed on the dotted line anything after that is a different deal; you might find family owned businesses would take a different view but not the larger groups.

Urgent?

LPG and diesel are incompatable - LPG is spark ignition.

Yip, the same with the A2 - never ever use the boot button just in case. Mrs FB has a habbit of locking the car with her keys in the pocket, then closing the door. One day... Last summer we were on our way home from a trip out; my wife popped to the shop while my son and I sat in her car. Unfortunately, she thought it would be funny to lock the car then unlock it - sadly, I forgot the car would then lock itself after 20 seconds. So there an 11 month old FB junior and I in a glass-roofed A2 with black leather and all-electric windows when OAT is around 30C and the poxy alarm is going off. She was only 10 minutes but in no time at all we were cooking. To add insult, she thought it was funny as she walked up to the car with the alarm going off and me gesticulating, but she soon got the message when opening the door and being hit with a wall of heat and a distraught son. Not good.

Look at the bore/ stroke v the 1.4TSI - it's the VAG engine, not a Skoda-driven product.

The 1100/1300 was a truly impressive car. My father-in-law had two All-agro's, the first one was T-boned and written off, the second one did the decent thing and died. He then replaced them with a succession of Maestro's. Still, being from Solihull there was only one place he worked, so he had to drive them...

Perhaps a wheel-swap thread might be a good idea - perfect for those buying new (and used, to a degree) where an S owner can get bigger wheels for nothing more than the fuel costs and those in SE/ Elegance can have smaller wheels without having to watch a salesman scratch his bonce. Job done.

I guess this is the bronze - follwed an Ibiza ST in this colour a few weeks back. Looks nice..if you like Bronze!

Interesting the S and SE will share wheel design where as each model at the moment is immediately distinguishable by its standard wheels (apart from the Greenline SE sharing with the S models already). The Nevis wheels look lovely, although still want to see a metallic red Yeti!

True, but the lease will be done via a lease company so I wouldn't want to waste James' time as it wouldn't end in a sale. I've found reference in the back of What Car to the 2.0TDI 170 Elegance being about £310 + VAT, so a Greenline 2 SE should be about £220-£230 + VAT which seems possible...

It looks like my employer is set to introduce a salary sacrifice scheme for lease cars, which would be handy. There are no figures available yet at all as the scheme isn't set-up but was wondering if anyone had already got quotes through a business (full maintenance inc.) for a Greenline 2 or 2.0TDI 110 SE - I can do the rest of the maths from there to work out the cost to me, but have no ideas of what a lease would be at. Not that I'm expecting specifics, but about 15Kpa would be the mileage we'd be looking at. Obviously I'd go for a Greenline 2 as it would be subject to company car tax...it's just a shame those 119g/km cars will no longer be in the 13% band as of April 2012... I realise that's all a bit specific but would be interested to get a feel of how the market views Yeti's from a residual perspective (I mean real rather than the current lead-in induced inflation!)