While it is unusual to have a height adjustable front passenger seat in addition to the driver's one on a supermini ( apart from grade 1 ) I wondered if this was applicable to right hand drive cars only - do left hand drive cars also get this as standard?

It strikes me as somewhat strange to have this as standard yet something as basic as electric rear windows are only optional, regardless of grade.

Seat height adjustment on the passenger seat should be more common than it is. The reason it's more worthwhile than say rear electric windows is that modern cars are fitted with airbags and these are designed to work with people of average height. If you're a shortie like me, being able to raise the seat height means I can gain maximum benefit from the airbags should the situation arise.

I rarely carry rear seat passengers and even more rarely have the windows open, so electric rear windows are a bit of a no-brainer.

Anyway, that's the Little Jo take on things.

Seat height adjustment on the passenger seat should be more common than it is. The reason it's more worthwhile than say rear electric windows is that modern cars are fitted with airbags and these are designed to work with people of average height. If you're a shortie like me, being able to raise the seat height means I can gain maximum benefit from the airbags should the situation arise.

I rarely carry rear seat passengers and even more rarely have the windows open, so electric rear windows are a bit of a no-brainer.

Anyway, that's the Little Jo take on things.

Whether or not it is more worthwhile is debatable, the fact remains that in a Fabia sized cars, power rear windows are far more common than a height adjustable front passenger seat. I wondered if the UK cars had this since the majority of Fabias made would be for the left hand drive market.

No idea if this is the standard on left hand drive but....

I should imagine that it is cheaper from a tooling point of view to make both seats in the same, so that they only make one set of parts for both left and right hand drive models.

So assuming that it is a money saving idea from Skoda's point of view, it probably is standard on left and right hand drive models.

I could be wrong.

You'd be hard pressed to find any massed produced VAG product without them...

Just been looking at the new Jazz which is on sale from today. The higher range models do have standard fit rear electric windows but non have a standard fit height adjustable front passenger seat - this remains a bit of a rarity in any supermini. In fact the only other one I know of to have this is the latest Ibiza. Must be a VAG thing.

Apart from not having a oil burner, the Jazz automatic has gone from a CVT to their automated manual i-Shift system - hope it works better in the Jazz than the current Civic - a DSG it is not!