I've just read the Autoexpress longterm report on the Yeti Greenline.

Their "owner" doesn't like the boring grill or ugly B pillar.

I think the sharkfin B pillar is one of the Yetis best styling features.?

They also critisize it as " speed bumps jar comfort."

It's one of the few cars I've ever owned that has enough ground clearance and long travel suspension to drive over speed bumps almost as if they weren't there.

Am I missing something ,or are they joining Whatcar in Trying to find anything to critisize?

I've just read the Autoexpress longterm report on the Yeti Greenline.

Their "owner" doesn't like the boring grill or ugly B pillar.

I think the sharkfin B pillar is one of the Yetis best styling features.?

They also critisize it as " speed bumps jar comfort."

It's one of the few cars I've ever owned that has enough ground clearance and long travel suspension to drive over speed bumps almost as if they weren't there.

Am I missing something ,or are they joining Whatcar in Trying to find anything to critisize?

It may depend on the colour of the car but I disliked the B Pillar being painted rather than black like the rest of the pillars - Mine now sports the black covers from SuperSkoda and I think it looks better.

Speed bumps are designed to affect comfort in any car so people will slow down, If that is all they can state as a negative then they are indeed nitpicking.

Style wise one persons hate is another persons like. The B pillar shape makes a nice style difference setting the car apart from the greenhouse look of some estates/SUVs.

I guess I could have just stated that I agree with you bilun777

I've just read the Autoexpress longterm report on the Yeti Greenline.

Their "owner" doesn't like the boring grill or ugly B pillar.

EDIT:

Having now read the article it's a member of the public that said about the B pillar and ugly grille.

Clearly you are never going to please everyone.

The body coloured b-pillar is surely a fundamental part of the whole 'floating roof' concept on the Yeti. Ive always liked it. No problem with jarring on my local speed bumps but then again, its my own car and I use a good degree of mechanical sympathy with it and do attempt them at 30mph!

Speed bumps are designed to affect comfort in any car so people will slow down

^^^ This.

I find that my Yeti (with 17" wheels) drives quite comfortably over most of Edinburgh's "traffic calming" (why does that phrase always make me think of a couple of shell-suited scousers with porn-star 'taches and unlikely perms?) In fourth it will tootle along very happily with the cruise control set at 20mph (an awful lot of Edinburgh is a 20mph limit these days) and float serenely over most things. The ones which do sometimes catch it out are the small square humps with gaps in between: if you take those offset, so that one wheel goes over a hump and the one on the other side doesn't, then they're uncomfortable in any car (great for bikes though 'coz you can just nick through the gaps!)

Last weekend I got stuck behind one of those types who drops to walking speed (or slower) at each set of speed humps, then speeds up again afterwards. All that braking and accelerating is probably more uncomfortable than just taking them at a constant but sensible speed. Maybe they're trying to do that "trick" of smoothing out the humps by braking to compress the front springs just before the front wheels start to rise up the hump, and then accelerating to squash the rear springs as the back end goes over the hump. That used to kind of work on the Citroen I drove twenty years ago, probably due to the BX's quirky suspension, but I never found it very effective on conventionally-sprung cars I've driven since (and of course these days I've mellowed and don't try to get everywhere as quickly as possible like I did when I was a callow youth).

The first "sleeping policemen" I ever encountered were at the place where my Dad worked, and where I spent my gap year (earning money in a real job, not backpacking round the world as seemed to be the vogue a few years later). They took the form of two narrow raised bands of tarmac about 8" wide and 6" apart. They were pretty uncomfortable to drive over at any speed in anything - although one of my Dad's colleagues reckoned that it you hit them at ~40mph then your wheels would jump the gap and land reasonably smoothly on the downslope of the second hump, which rather defeated their purpose. I did try that once or twice in my Dad's Maxi but I was never convinced by the results - most likely because of the differences between the Maxi's suspension and the other guy's BMW's (IIRC a late model 2002 - probably with a bag of cement in the boot).

Yeti styling is fine with me; Individual and distinctive. I like the painted 'B' pillar.

Speed humps? Yeti handles these as good/bad as many other cars.

Auto Express - nitpicking indeed!

It's probable that Yetiphiles will take as much notice of these latest AutoExpress criticisms as they did of the 'Car of the Year' plaudits a while back. Skoda won't bother much about them either - there's a Waiting List for the Yeti, isn't there?!

It's probable that Yetiphiles will take as much notice of these latest AutoExpress criticisms as they did of the 'Car of the Year' plaudits a while back. Skoda won't bother much about them either - there's a Waiting List for the Yeti, isn't there?!

Err.. yes, and err... yes there is a waitling list (quite a long one depending on the spec) unless you cross the dealers sweaty paw with some well earned and buy the one in the showroom... at a good discount price.... if it's for sale that is

Just look at my signature pic... That B-pillar is what makes a Yeti a Yeti. If is black the Yeti becomes just a boring old hearse. But each to their own.

Just look at my signature pic... That B-pillar is what makes a Yeti a Yeti. If is black the Yeti becomes just a boring old hearse. But each to their own.

Spot on!