As it says on the tin...

we've had pet hates so i thought we should balance it out.

What is the bit you would miss most if your Yeti was taken away?

mine would have to be how comfortable it is.

having spent all day on my feet, it is a relaxing place to be when driving home.

Light Front End (bad in snow) but brilliant handling - quick turn in! Combined with high driving position!

Just ONE thing?!!? Yikes..... That is near impossible with sooooo many tiny and big things making the Yeti perfect. I agree with your comfort though. Part of that is sitting higher to see out better.

So to summarise all that: what one thing would I miss? Well the WHOLE car. I can't pinpoint one thing that will be missed more than anything else.

Difficult question; as a package it just works as close to perfect as you can get, so I think I'd just miss having a Yeti but features I really like are the 4x4 drive and the adaptive xenon lights on the Elegance spec.

TP

Its overall flexibility/capability.:yes:

Hetty

see

http://web.me.com/mjayland/Hetty_the_Yeti/Hetty_the_Yeti/Entries/2011/6/26_Hetty_herself.html

As mentioned above the overall package is brilliant so it is very hard to choose one, but seeing how I can can drive it for 8 hours at a time without ending up bent double in pain like all my other previous cars.

So, the seats & driving position, so easy to get in and out of, even for a 'young' man like me

Mike

As mentioned above the overall package is brilliant so it is very hard to choose one, but seeing how I can can drive it for 8 hours at a time without ending up bent double in pain like all my other previous cars.

So, the seats & driving position, so easy to get in and out of, even for a 'young' man like me

Mike

+1 to all of this, youthfulness included!

Xenons, great ride compared to Tiguan, small footprint compared to ditto. Not the most characterful car to be honest compared to some of the cars I have owned (2CV, Alfasuds. Golf GTis and Sevens have infinitely more personality) but probably the most fit for my purposes car I have owned.

The engine ... CR170 is awesome.

It's so easy to drive.

What would I miss if my yety was taken away. MY YETI :'(

But not as much as my loverly German shepherd sadly taken from me on Sunday only 13 years young :'( :'( :'(

But not as much as my loverly German shepherd sadly taken from me on Sunday only 13 years young

Hi Kevin,

very to hear of your loss, had a wonderful Shepard myself when I was boy; lost him to cancer I think at 12 years.

TP

The most recent thing I have found that I really like is the excellent turning circle... but there are loads more.

Above all else though I just love the look of the thing - and unlike other cars whose looks I have fallen in love with (e.g. Fiat Coupe), it actually works.

What would I miss if my yety was taken away. MY YETI :'(

But not as much as my loverly German shepherd sadly taken from me on Sunday only 13 years young :'( :'( :'(

Sorry to hear that. I thought I was going to lose my flatcoat retriever earlier this year ... surgery removed a big tumour and he's now recovering - but I know the pain I felt thinking he would die. I can imagine how you feel and wish you all the best.

Sorry to hear that. I thought I was going to lose my flatcoat retriever earlier this year ... surgery removed a big tumour and he's now recovering - but I know the pain I felt thinking he would die. I can imagine how you feel and wish you all the best.

Thanks Bobdog she was ok on Friday but Sunday lost the use of her back legs. she was the perfect dog, will never be forgotten.

A certain smugness from the fact that it is a Skoda and I'm not travelling with the herd and I think it does have some character.

The seats, covered just over 400 miles last Thursday from the Austrian Tirol to France with no aches from any of us.

Despite others' concerns about the boot space, I have found the boot a good shape for packing but even with a 460 litre roof box, my Yeti could still cruise at 80mph and turn in a respectable fuel consumption figure.

The Xenon lights because even with a full boot and a full roof box, the self levelling feature of the lights means they shine in the right place. But I also feel that even with a full load of peoplevand luggage, the Yeti never looks down on its haunches as many other full cars do. And the tourist option.

The four wheel drive because it does add to the sure-footedness of the beast.

Road presence - when other cars move over for you in the third lane of a German Autobahn, I reckon the car has presence!

I love this car. Of course it isn't perfect but isn't that what we call "character"?

John

Edited 9 August, 201114 yr by jst_at_home

What would I miss if my yety was taken away. MY YETI :'(

But not as much as my loverly German shepherd sadly taken from me on Sunday only 13 years young :'( :'( :'(

Oh Kev, so sorry chap.

I know how you feel as we lost our lab/ retriever cross last year after 13 of the best years of our lives. :'(

Remember those wonderful moments you had together.

It'll hurt like hell but hopefully put a little smile on your face at the same time.

So to summarise all that: what one thing would I miss? Well the WHOLE car. I can't pinpoint one thing that will be missed more than anything else.

+1 on this. With the Yeti, the package is the message.

Many of the individual components and design decisions I'd find fault with, but I don't know of any other vehicle out there that manages to combine all of its wide-ranging qualities in the way that the Yeti does.

Perhaps if I had to single out one thing, it would be the well-executed, form follows function, body design aft of the A pillar. Just such a shame that forward of the A pillar was designed by a completely different bunch of people and that the two teams didn't talk to each other.

Edited 9 August, 201114 yr by prodata

Thing I like best about the Yeti?

How ridiculously easy they are to sell!

Being serious though, the things that stand out to me that are exceptional are-

• Build Quality
  
• Handling
  
• Refinement
  
• Economy
  
• The Slightly Quirky Looks!
  

One single thing is impossible to come up with I'm afraid but after doing 14 hrs and 18 minutes behind the wheel yesterday, the ride comfort is in another league to anything I've previously owned. In fact, it's the combination of ride comfort and handling balance that is remarkable (just ask the Renault clio sport driver on the French roads from Daglan to Sarlat!). The interior space iand flexibility us also furst rate when utilised effectively. I'd also have to mention the Panoramic sunroof, the effective climate control and xenons for night time illumination as being great aspects of the car. Finally and more uniquely to mine; the brake setup and remap are truly astounding out here on the Spanish mountain roads :-)

So just one thing? The whole thing!

Apart from everything else - this forum!

What a wealth of knowledge and support - if we had to rely on SUK we'd be sunk!

Build quality

Got to drive this car through some heavy flooding this weekend in Speyside, all I can say is I have never felt so secure in a car. My best bit to date. What a solid, robust and dependable car [in a crisis!] and I have not even tried it on snow yet :p

Got to drive this car through some heavy flooding this weekend in Speyside, all I can say is I have never felt so secure in a car. My best bit to date. What a solid, robust and dependable car [in a crisis!] and I have not even tried it on snow yet :p