redbuta

Well... 7 years ago, on good old version of Whatcar website.

These pictures are not to scale - Surely the Superb is longer than Passat in total? In those pictures, it looked a lot shorter.

Cheque received and cashed - within 28 days from 1st contact, very reasonable customer service cycle. Skoda UK

This might be a good thing? You might be able to insist on the agreed price.

Did they mention the price might be changed subject to WLTP, and if so you could get full deposit back should you feel unhappy to proceed? BTW, my dealer promised to give me a call W/C 17th Sept for update.

So basically the first batch of "real" petrol MY2019 (you can include extras like "digital cluster") will be delivered after 29 weeks from now - 22nd March 2019. This might trigger more complexity during Brexit period...

Ok, I knew they were going to say this... "Given the Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA)'s approval, we do not consider that the issue which you have reported is related to the technical measure. " But more importantly... "Notwithstanding, we would like to offer financial support by way of a cheque....... as a gesture of individual goodwill." And there are a few more lines of legal disclaimer which is not important either. A cheque seems to be on its way (28 working days)! Now this makes me more than happy to wait patiently for the MY2019 Kodiaq price-list (after ongoing WLTP delay), rather than being tempted by a few quick-delivery good Volvo XC90 offers...

The ADAC link does not look good for VAG and Toyota!

Seems VW is slow in terms of WLTP approval. SEAT and SKODA are way behind without any published list at all so far... Currently VW WLTP approved models:

After the 1.6T petrol's removal from the 5008 line, I didn't even bother to do a test drive on it. The 5008 is a very practical MPV-SUV (although torsion bar and no 4x4) with great standard technologies and an exterior I like very much. But 1.2T is not powerful enough even for the 3008 many of my colleagues have bought! They all complained about lacking pace in the city and on A-roads (motorway cruising seems good).

This is getting ridiculous... Got a phone call from Volvo today... very tempting...

I agree there is huge price difference: The SEL 2.0TSI + options e.g. driver assist, rear camera, digital cluster, front sensor, crew protection etc. will be around 32k after discount The XC90 T5 momentum will have all of these + nicer seats, will be around 46k after discount The Sorento KX-2 doesn't provide desirables e.g. digital cluster (only a 7" round one), petrol engine, least fun during test drive, come at 29K after discount XC90 will also be taxed much more. The first 5-year service pack is reasonable @£599, but parts and liquids will be more expensive. Overall 7-8 year ownership (me typical) will cost roughly 20k more than the Kodiaq, and residue maybe 5k more at the end? Just thinking this might be my last internal combustion engined car, might be ok to spread 15k extra over 8 years? But Kodiaq is still my top choice at the moment.

I'm not in a hurry. Apparently most car manufacturers are suffering different levels of delays. But if this continues into Sept/Oct, my current order of preference: 1. Kodiaq 2.0TSI SEL --> 2. XC90 T5 --> 3. Sorento diesel KX-2 might need to be reviewed...

Just got an update from our local dealer - no official MY2019 price list yet... I guess DTD (diesel only) and coast2coast etc. may have got a provisional price list from somewhere... I think this is all down to WLTP delays...

Here we go - "update soon" I have no idea where are those prices from Coast2Coast coming from... For example, the digital cluster for £500.