would this really sell if skoda took it! i cant really say it looks any better than the a2

Looks good in a wierd kinda way

looks like a fabia Plus+ like the golf plus but a bit more mpv looking/picasso kinda size

if audi cant make money off it i cant see how skoda can... costs too much to make!

if audi cant make money off it i cant see how skoda can... costs too much to make!

It does if you have to pay German salaries and you don't have a pile of virtually free Aluminium hanging about. Also with the R&D and tooling written off by Audi the unit overhead cost of production would be considerably less.

Skoda could and should ship the A2 line back home and start knocking them out. Its the green thing to do.

may well appeal to some but not big enough for all the cr4p i have to lug around ..... but a superb vRS estate

The A2 was cute but it's so pricey. A victory for engineering over marketing :-))

The A2 was cute but it's so pricey. A victory for engineering over marketing :-))

Hay come on ! You have to look at the cost of any other all aluminium bodied car and also to take into account the 'whole life costs' of running the vehicle and its impact on the environment. on these terms it's not expensive at all.

The A2 was a splendid attempt by Audi to take the game on to the next level. Marketing let them down by hiding the product away in a dark corner. This is why Skoda now has such a marvellous opportunity to take the R&D, production facility etc. at a knock down price back the Czech Republic and to build a true 21st century car for the people and to help save the planet into the bargain.

um? can't see that my statement was critical of the A2 as a vehicle, I just stated that the complexity of it's design and expense of it's manufacture suggest that it was an occasion when the engineers won over the bean counters!!! On the issue of whether it will be re launched as a Skoda I would think that there is not a chance in hell!!! It's and old design now, the dynamics have never been anything very exciting and why would anybody buy it over a well speced Fabia??

It's and old design now, the dynamics have never been anything very exciting and why would anybody buy it over a well speced Fabia??

Obsessed it seems with the movement of time as are so many these days. Yes, chronologically you are right it is an 'old design' in this sense but in all other respects it is still cutting edge and outclasses anything else in its market segment. Just because it wasn't launched last week doesn't make it 'old hat', not every new product advances the art.

A Fabia in current form will always be a steel dinosaur. Aluminium (and just possibly Titanium and Plastic) are the materials of the future for car manufacture. Driving a steel car will come to be regarded as living in the 'dark ages' very shortly when oil passes $100 a barrel with not sign of weakening (its already at $60 and rising, in the summer !!!).

The name of the game will be to be able to keep moving at an affordable price and this is where the A2 and even better a reasonably priced Skoda built A2, would be such a winner IMHO.

I cringe every time I see an MPV type vehicle...they give me the shudders :(

I cringe every time I see an MPV type vehicle...they give me the shudders :(

The A2 hardly qualifies as an 'MPV' in the way I think you mean. I agree Scenics, C-Max etc seem to amplify the drudgery of parenthood and to have to drive one seems to suggest a resignation to years of subservience to one's offspring.

The A2 qualifies underthe true definition of MPV - multi purpose vehicle, in that it can carry out several tasks but it isn't excessively large for large sake and its upright stance is simply a function of its clever use of wheelbase area.

When I test drove a 1.4 TDI a few years ago i'm sure it only had 4 seat belts?? Not very multi purpose. Wish they would put the 90bhp version of the 1.4 in the Fabia though.