It was the salesbloke's excellent service at Audi Bedford that made me decide to get an A3. He was honest and open. Which is more than can be said for the mantruncheonhead at both Seat Milton Keynes and what must of been his twin at VW bedford. Both of which spent the test drives slagging off Audi.

Whereas the Audi chap (adam) commented that both the Leon and Golf were good cars. And that was as much as he said about them, spent the rest of the time talking about the Audi.

Could not fault them. Yes they might be a lot more expensive but that bloke and that branch were faultless.

If it were not for the VAT off offer I'd be in another one. I paid 19.6k for the A3 sportback sport 170 which is several grand cheaper than the GTD!!

Son has a sportback a3 with full leather really nice car but hard on the rear end, new it was 4 years ago think it was around the 27k he bought it(we) for less than 10k shocking loss!

As nice as the A3 is... its a golf in a posh frock

And a golf is just a more expensive, smaller octavia.

I remember my first Skoda was a mk1 Octavia. She was a 2.0 Ambiente in Eucalyptus Green. 8v engine that put out 115bhp and averaged 32mpg.

I paid £7699. She was 18 months old, 13k on the clock.

A bloke I worked with bought a basic spec, 1.4 Golf with 50K on for similar money but was a Y plate.

He told me "he had to have a Golf"

Interior wise it was identical to the Octavia in the main but can't help but feel the one who got the better value..