I don't want to be a skoda preacher.I just want to enjoy my great looking great performing car.I know skoda owners are quite smug about their purchases(quite rightly) but is it just the British who are just so snobby/stupid or do other countries have a skoda problem?

The cars are plastered all over magazines and newspapers singing their praises.They win award after award,What Car accolades,other titles awards, JD power survey awards.They feature in most car tests as one of the cars to beat(and when they dont win that some skoda buffs get miffy!)they have become the benchmark car in the lot of the tests,golf owners are told it is(in some guises) a better version of their car,This is normally acknowledged but they still get a golf.

This is why I wonder,is it just Brits that are quite happy to buy something naff that they have been told will break down,suffers electric faults etc or do other countries behave like this about skoda :ne_nau:

It's just the Brits.

Though my engine warning light came back on again last night after being fixed two weeks ago...so sadly it looks as if the "now as reliable as a VW" is true... :grumpy:

Rob.

there was a thread about skoda in india and they are thought of on the same leval as merc bmw...if not higher !!

its just us brits who have a stigma with the name... keeps the price down tho so i aint complaining!!!

Joel

there was a thread about skoda in india and they are thought of on the same leval as merc bmw...if not higher !!

its just us brits who have a stigma with the name... keeps the price down tho so i aint complaining!!!

Joel

Yeah, was talking to an Indian guy I work with and he told me the same thing. If you've got a Skoda out there you are the daddy

My mum was telling me about the comment in the times

"Skoda is the badge to have and the car to be seen in"

so maybe views are changing

I haven't read the full artical myself but my mum was impressed by it anyone else read it?

My mum was telling me about the comment in the times

"Skoda is the badge to have and the car to be seen in"

so maybe views are changing

I haven't read the full artical myself but my mum was impressed by it anyone else read it?

apprently so,... i also heard the same thing slowing become a thing of fashion..must be the cult following they have

Joel

Remember the British love for Rover - mine has been reliable but it's not the best-built car in the world now, is it

Suppose over time the expected standard will go up

After all my group of friends from school finnished university they all entered into an unspoken competiton to see who could purchase the nicest car. (I dropped out of Uni after the first year so playing major catch up)

Some of the cars included a Renault 5 GT Turbo. A Sierra Saphire Cosworth, a Renault Clio Williams, a Peugeot 205 1.9 GTI. I never gor to buy a nice car as I never earned as much as the other lads. I enjoyed being ferried about in these cars as we used to travel the country in the early 90's attending different nightclubs.

We went to Cream in Liverpool, Back To Basics in Leeds, The Hacienda and Sankey's Soap in Manchester, Love To Be in Sheffield, Hard Times in Morely, then Gatecrasher in Sheffield, and Shindig in Newcastle.

The rule of thumb at the time was that the bloke with the best car at the time would drive to the club and not drink so the rest of us could show off to the ladies The ultimate car appeared near the end of our clubbing days; one of the lads happened across a 'P' reg BMW M3 in a sort of bluey purpley colour with full grey leather interior which was being sold for peanuts by a rich farmer. We loved going out in that car. Total Pose-mobile.

Bringing this tale up to date, we all had a bit of a reunion for a stag do in Edinburgh last year. I was asked to bring the Skud for transport as it was the best looking car amongst all of us. It was the first time I had been asked to bring my car and I must admit I was a bit aprehensive at first as I thought they would all take the Michael, but all I got was compliments about the car for the whole weekend. One of the quotes was "This would have been a F****n top car to go clubbin in" I did feel a bit of pride at this point.

Although this would appear very shallow, I suppose the point of this tale is that IMO Skuds have enetered into the spot occupied by VW a couple of years ago. A Quality car which people now aspire to......

Skodas are accepted now... which is quite sad..

the chav contingent will manage to destroy any image soon...which is more sad.

I need to look for a new challenge. Kia? Hyundai? Perouda?

There is a guy in my snooker team who says to me that he'll bring me a spare elastic band for when my snaps

And he drives a Lexus :thumbdwn:

Skodas are accepted now... which is quite sad..

the chav contingent will manage to destroy any image soon...which is more sad.

I don't think the Chav contingent could afford a nice Skoda. (fair enough, maybe a second hand Fabia) Even so, the Chav contingent infiltrate every spectrum of vehicle ownership. Yesterday, I saw a Volvo XC90 on a 54 plate. It had been lowered, with what looked like twenny fo' spinners attached to each corner. There was an aftermarket shoddy body kit attached and a twin exhaust system poking out the back. The windows had been tinted in the style of Fiddy Cent, but the worst aspect of this Gangsta aspirational SUV was the TD5 badge on't back!

It tried to overtake on a roundabout, then nearly caused an RTA as we exited the roundabout overtaking on the inside lane. ****!