The dictionary defines the following for cool:

1 - Moderately cold

2 - Calm & unemotional

3 - Indifferent or unfriendly

4 - Informal, sophisticated or excellent

5 - Informal, relative to a large sum of money, without exaggeration, eg. cool million.

We're talking car & not member classification by the way & I'll opt for 4!

I can't recall ever seeing one on the Top Gear cool wall, which is the definitive list of cool cars, so no. HTH.

The Skoda Yeti is in the Sub Zero section of the TG Cool Wall

Well, it is on the fridge magnet set I got from the magazine a while back

You can always just go for another type of dictionary.

(maybe this is no longer a cool dictionary!)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cool&defid=1072622

george

The dictionary defines the following for cool:

1 - Moderately cold

2 - Calm & unemotional

3 - Indifferent or unfriendly

4 - Informal, sophisticated or excellent

5 - Informal, relative to a large sum of money, without exaggeration, eg. cool million.

We're talking car & not member classification by the way & I'll opt for 4!

OT but most of those could describe Kimi Raikkonen

I'll notice Skodas when out and about and sometimes noticed other Skoda drivers nod when I pass them. Are they cool? Well people think Alfas are cool and I wouldn't touch one with a bargepole.

Are they cool? Well people think Alfas are cool and I wouldn't touch one with a bargepole.

Alfa make some of the most beautiful cars on earth (IMHO), BUT, I still wouldn't buy one.

The fear takes over, whenever I start to seriously consider one.

No

But as far as learner car goes a vrs compared to a normal fiesta learner car is uber cool! Its like a ferrari to a learner

Cool is subjective. I think my cars are cool but I don't give two hoots what anyone else thinks!

What gets my back up is people who berate you for owning a Skoda but are quite happy to accept a lift in said car! I only let them get away with it once.

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Definately not cool. This does not make them bad cars though.

Its a bufget VW so when has anything thats been done on a budget been cool?

Cool would we be when someone says - stuff the budget im getting it.

You certainly wouldnt be classed as cool by being super thrifty would you?

If you were a flash git who spent money like it was going out of fashion and shared it about then i dare say that could be deemed cool.

A true motoring enthusiast would spend every penny he/she could afford on a car. You may well have spent more than you can afford on a skoda but seeing as its a budget brand then its irrelevant unfortunately.

Ill settle for not getting slagged for owning a skoda and will worry about convincing people its cool after they release their first supercar or after winning a string of major sporting events.

Edited 11 January, 201313 yr by Jockdooshbag

The Skoda Yeti is in the Sub Zero section of the TG Cool Wall

Well, it is on the fridge magnet set I got from the magazine a while back

This reminds me of something I did last year.

When I went to Norfolk to collect the GT-R from the guy I'd bought it off, he had a set of those Top Gear magnets on his fridge.

Yeti was in the uncool section with only supercars in the sub zero (or whatever top section was), so while he was doing the paperwork I slipped over towards the fridge and rearranged his magnets so the Yeti was in the sub zero section.

He phoned me up a week later when he noticed.

I wouldn't say they are cool but not un-cool.

Not one Skoda joke has been made wihen telling people of my recent Octavia purchase.

I think people are coming round to the idea that they are basically just a rebadged VW. Even non-car wise people I have spoken to have said things along the lines of "aren't they made by VW" or "they're just a VW with a Skoda badge on aren't they?"

Phil

You still get the ignorant. Not as many but unfortunately they are still there. They can stay that way because it keeps them off here.

Lets be honest if I could have afforded a 335i or an A6 Quattro I'd have bought one. But the VRS was the best new car I could by for my budget. Cool didn't really some into it but then I don't really care for other peoples opinions for the most part. I like a sleeper anyway.

I'd never recommend anyone who could drive a manual to get an auto license. Being able to drive both gives you more options even if you choose to stick with an auto.

Clarkson once said "Skoda's are VW's for mean people" Fine by me

If not wanting to pay a price premium for a small boot and uncomfortably hard seats is "mean" then yes, I'm mean.

If Automatic drivers are not 'car people' then how come all the new sports cars are auto(ish) Audi S4 stronic, BMW M5, anything Mercedes AMG, Ferarri...it appears to be the future. I love my manuals but I'm not opposed to an auto, providing I can still give it the beans and know that I dont have to wait a decade for it to drop some cogs...

How many auto only drivers go and buy one of them? Very few, they normally have 1.2 corsa slush boxes. As I said there are exceptions but generally that's how it goes. Everyone I know who has those cars have manual D/L and a manual toy/track car.

If Automatic drivers are not 'car people' then how come all the new sports cars are auto(ish) Audi S4 stronic, BMW M5, anything Mercedes AMG, Ferarri...it appears to be the future.

It's because it makes the car faster.

That's what these type of cars are sold on.

Foolproof and fast.

Compare the TT-RS times, S-tronic is something like 0.2 or 0.3 seconds quicker to 62mph without the driver having to swap cogs themselves.

That's why fun/track cars are often offered as manuals too.

Looks like PH are onto us in regards to value even though there's still a few badge snobs there

http://pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=1237893&i=999999&nmt=Audi%20A1%20or%20Skoda%20Fabia?%20How%20can%20this%20be?

It'll flip the other way in a year or so. Everything is cyclical.

This reminds me of something I did last year.

When I went to Norfolk to collect the GT-R from the guy I'd bought it off, he had a set of those Top Gear magnets on his fridge.

Yeti was in the uncool section with only supercars in the sub zero (or whatever top section was), so while he was doing the paperwork I slipped over towards the fridge and rearranged his magnets so the Yeti was in the sub zero section.

He phoned me up a week later when he noticed.

Iused to have the fridge magnet cool wall ages ago. Once when my sister was up visitng from Edinburgh she changed it all around and put the pink micra convertible in sub zero and all the cool cars at the other end. I never noticed untill my mate pointed it out weeks later. Looked like a total twonk. Wasnt untill the next visit that she owned up to it as i was convinced the missus had done it. I took the magnets off soon after as it became the in joke to mess about with it.

This reminds me of something I did last year.

When I went to Norfolk to collect the GT-R from the guy I'd bought it off, he had a set of those Top Gear magnets on his fridge.

Yeti was in the uncool section with only supercars in the sub zero (or whatever top section was), so while he was doing the paperwork I slipped over towards the fridge and rearranged his magnets so the Yeti was in the sub zero section.

He phoned me up a week later when he noticed.

So which section did you move the GT-R fridge magnet to then? :rofl: OJ!

So which section did you move the GT-R fridge magnet to then? :rofl: OJ!

I would take it off the fridge and stuff it in the freezer. Seriously cool car the GTR.

I doubt Clarkson and crew would agree though - too many gadgets and toys plus is a "G" meter really cool?? Kinda geeky really but hey that doesnt stop me wanting one big style.

The Kristen Scott Thomas test - Look Kristen here is my G meter, wait, come back, where are you going????????

Alfa make some of the most beautiful cars on earth (IMHO), BUT, I still wouldn't buy one.

The fear takes over, whenever I start to seriously consider one.

I'm going to utter the phrase as a former Alfa owner we all say "I loved my Alfa"

ALWAYS in a past tense

So which section did you move the GT-R fridge magnet to then? :rofl: OJ!

Under the Yeti.

Red Yeti > Blue GT-R anyday.

I'm going to utter the phrase as a former Alfa owner we all say "I loved my Alfa"

ALWAYS in a past tense

I love the style but after looking in the showroom with my old man at 156s and 145s every single show room car had the guts of the dashboard hanging out or labels hanging off saying xyz to fix or replace. If they couldn't keep the showroom cars running what use would the real thing be. Put off for life.