New update on the Autocar website today:

The Yeti is no longer a myth

by Hilton Holloway

I've managed to wangle a couple of weeks with Autocar's newest long-term test car and I reckon it could be prove to be one of the best cars we've ever had.

I first drove Skoda's Yeti early last year in hills around Oslo. It struck me straight away as brilliantly conceived: tall, short and capacious. It was light and breezy on the roads and - equipped with a 4x4 drivetrain and hill descent control - superbly agile off-road.

Sitting on my driveway, I can't help but admire the sheer common sense of the Yeti's packaging. It's the same length as a Golf, but delivers more useable space and a more pleasant, semi-raised, driving position.

The real triumph is the triple-split rear seat design. Aside from sliding back and forth, the seats can also tumble fold forward (held in place by built in bungy cords that hook around the front seat headrests).

The real winner is ability to take the seats out altogether and turn the Yeti into a van, though it's a pity the front passenger seat doesn't fold forward.

I've spent a couple of days running around town in the Yeti (ours matches the entry-level 105bhp 1.2-litre turbo and a DSG 'box) and can't imagine a better family car at this end of the market.

Its built like a brick outhouse, sweet-running and is easy to park and squeeze into spaces. And I can well imagine the Yeti coping with everything from the supermarket run to running across fields or driving down unmade tracks when you are on your holidays.

There was some chatter that the Yeti was expensive, but I've checked the website and found the entry-level Yeti (which gets air-con, curtain airbags and a full compliment of stability controls) is £13,995 on the road.

The entry-level Golf, with the same 105bhp engine, is £2k more expensive.

I know what I'd buy.

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Chris

And I'd know what I'd buy!! Picking mine up tomorrow woo hoo. Can't wait!!

S

New update on the Autocar website today:

The Yeti is no longer a myth

by Hilton Holloway

I've managed to wangle a couple of weeks with Autocar's newest long-term test car and I reckon it could be prove to be one of the best cars we've ever had.

I first drove Skoda's Yeti early last year in hills around Oslo. It struck me straight away as brilliantly conceived: tall, short and capacious. It was light and breezy on the roads and - equipped with a 4x4 drivetrain and hill descent control - superbly agile off-road.

Sitting on my driveway, I can't help but admire the sheer common sense of the Yeti's packaging. It's the same length as a Golf, but delivers more useable space and a more pleasant, semi-raised, driving position.

The real triumph is the triple-split rear seat design. Aside from sliding back and forth, the seats can also tumble fold forward (held in place by built in bungy cords that hook around the front seat headrests).

The real winner is ability to take the seats out altogether and turn the Yeti into a van, though it's a pity the front passenger seat doesn't fold forward.

I've spent a couple of days running around town in the Yeti (ours matches the entry-level 105bhp 1.2-litre turbo and a DSG 'box) and can't imagine a better family car at this end of the market.

Its built like a brick outhouse, sweet-running and is easy to park and squeeze into spaces. And I can well imagine the Yeti coping with everything from the supermarket run to running across fields or driving down unmade tracks when you are on your holidays.

There was some chatter that the Yeti was expensive, but I've checked the website and found the entry-level Yeti (which gets air-con, curtain airbags and a full compliment of stability controls) is £13,995 on the road.

The entry-level Golf, with the same 105bhp engine, is £2k more expensive.

I know what I'd buy.

End Quote.

Chris

Thre are a few of us, who have figured this out already

Thre are a few of us, who have figured this out already

It's nice to be proven right though.

It's nice to be proven right though.

:yes: Agreed!

Lady Penelope :sun: :

Edited 20 April, 201016 yr by Lady Penelope

Fantastic! It is great to see such universal praise for this car. And makes me very happy about my choice. Even more so that I did not test drive or consider a single other car than the Yeti!

Interesting to read it with the replies though:

http://www.autocar.co.uk/blogs/whyilove/archive/2010/04/20/the-yeti-is-no-longer-a-myth.aspx

Just read this on the Autocar webiste and obviously in full agreement having been considering a new Golf as the alternative. Will wait for my copy to drop through the letterbox tomorrow to see if it is featured in the magazine this week.......