I noticed the other day a 52 reg fabia with no front grill badge & no boot badge which as a result was exposing the two holes in the tailgate..Had these been removed on purpose ? maybe they had been stolen? there was no damage to the car..I believe they had been taken off deliberatly & this driver thought that they must do what they could to try to disguise the fact they were driving a Skoda! LOL.. In my experience it tends to be a minority of middle aged people who still like to make very tired jokes about Skoda's...

C.

Probably stolen if they removed the boot badge to leave holes.

If it was someone deliberately debadging they are likely to get the holes filled and change the front grill.

Some people still are huge badge snobs though.

Someone I work with is considering his next choice of company car and has said he won't consider a new octy VRS over a golf purely because of the badge even though he accepts that the octy will be better value and arguably a better car.

Another colleague bought an accord instead of an octavia because his wife wouldn't be seen in a skoda.

..Sister in law was looking for a car at the same time as I was buying my octy and said "I wouldn't be seen dead in a Skoda"...funnily enough she WAS seen parked up on the M6 in her newly aquired Peugeot 307 when it threw its clutch assembly and had to transport it at her own expense from Bury back to the Peugeot dealers in Crewe..strange but she didn't seem to mind being seen in the octy on the trip back home !!

Inlaws wouldnt buy one, mainly mo-in-law..

Doubt very much father-in-law would really care as he's a bit more pragmatic

Dad's beemer driver, but he likes my car, and likes driving it too. Weird eh?

Still get the "but it's a Skoda" thing, but I'm not really bothered. Wait til they hear what I'm replacing it with :eek:

Best rebadging I've seen was a 1.4 TDI Fabia estate with a BMW badge where the Skoda one should have been on the tailgate. Wish I'd had my camera to hand at the time!

Chris

When I told people on the Vauxhall site i'm a member of there was a few s******s and remarks, but most did concede that Skodas are good cars now.

Since mine has been ordered my Dad and Brother are looking into the brand as a replacement for their current cars.

I've been getting the "Urgh buts it's a Skoda" thing from my mate's Mrs for the last three weeks, even though she's a VW owner and should know better. Strangely when offered the option walking to the pub instead of a trip in Skoda the other night she got in and shut up!

Can I be sexist please? I think its ok for girlies as they probably don't spend their time poring over car mags finding all about cars,reliabilty,speed,mpg,whats good,whats not,what do the journos think of them and all that jazz.

Apologies to the girls on here but(my wife included once!) it seems a dead cert that you had to pick a ka,clio,punto or the like.She took some pursuading to look at one.Now she can't get enough of her vRS!

For a bloke not to know about cars I always think is a bit odd really.Slating or moaning about 'it's a skoda though' makes me cringe.I can't be bothered to explain.I just think where have you been for ten years ? Clothes shopping

>Totally sexist mode off and apologies all round

The last car i had , spent more time with my Daughter than me , her Fiance then bought a Boxster , so one of my reasons for getting the Octy was because she said that it was one car she would never be seen in . I had been on about getting a Skoda for months . Guess what she has not used it once yet , so did the ploy work .Oh and the last time she used the fiances Boxster , the roof got stuck down and would not go up ( Apparently one has to have hand brake engaged first ), . Am i glad i got the Skoda

..Sister in law was looking for a car at the same time as I was buying my octy and said "I wouldn't be seen dead in a Skoda"...funnily enough she WAS seen parked up on the M6 in her newly aquired Peugeot 307 when it threw its clutch assembly and had to transport it at her own expense from Bury back to the Peugeot dealers in Crewe..strange but she didn't seem to mind being seen in the octy on the trip back home !!

I had exactly the same, but with my stepdad and his Laguna.

One other plus point i forgot to mention , the 3 year warranty , unlimited in first 2 years . On a Porch Boxster you only get 12 months . for

SQMBO's brother's a badge snob - also refuses to wear sensibly priced clothes and drives a crappy Clio - I really have given up trying to tell him - only a youngster though.

Upset when his 1.6 clio went backwards though!! Against a Skoda diesel!

FAO Laurence et al

I looked at Skoda after being taken to the garage (to buy a new car) in a Skoda taxi, plus recalling that the Furby was voted car of the year.

Never looked back! Probably should do - reversing mirrors and all that

I still get "Nice car, what is it?" "Skoda" "Oh"

So, is a woman driver a car "turn-off" for men, and only acceptable if we get out of the passenger seat? Even though some of us have had enough sense to buy one and reject the overpriced pretenders...

LOL

Mo

FAO Laurence et al

I looked at Skoda after being taken to the garage (to buy a new car) in a Skoda taxi' date=' plus recalling that the Furby was voted car of the year.

Never looked back! Probably should do - reversing mirrors and all that

I still get "Nice car, what is it?" "Skoda" "Oh"

So, is a woman driver a car "turn-off" for men, and only acceptable if we get out of the passenger seat? Even though some of us have had enough sense to buy one and reject the overpriced pretenders...

LOL

Mo[/quote']

Woman in skoda....sexy AND sensible and possibly crackers like all of us lot

I reckon most of it has to do with the woman involved, rather than the car

Woman in skoda....sexy AND sensible and possibly crackers like all of us lot

Yes, I can live with that, well except for the crackers bit of course ... Saaaaah! Getting it serviced tomorrow, but it's OK, I can probably hide all of my mods in the glove compartment Saaaah!

FAO WW_VRS

Oh dear! I think I've just struck out for "our side". But it's OK, if I spot you, I'll veer over to say Hi In case you're thinking, "Not if I see you first", don't worry, it'll be in the garage tomorrow

Mo

In the main I've found out that when you mention the VRS bit, after the initial Skoda bit, the look on peoples faces soon changes from one of amusement to dread as they mutter something about them being quite good cars

Quite a few people at my work have s******ed when I've told them I'm getting a Skoda (5 weeks and counting!). It's pure ignorance. The chief culprit has a Laguna. 'Nuff said!

Personally, I absolutely can't wait until the vRS arrives, and when it does, I absolutely can't wait to see the look on their faces. A Black Magic Octy vRS estate will have a lot of presence in my work car park amongst 206's, said Laguna, Ka etc etc.

An African gentleman who services the fire alarm at my place of work, made a coment about my octy vrs-

Him "How much did you pay for that"

Me "

An African gentleman who services the fire alarm at my place of work, made a coment about my octy vrs-

Him "How much did you pay for that"

Me "

Re=-badge/De=badge WHY????

If you are ashamed then dont buy it in the first place. I LOVE the fact I drive a Skoda, I get very smug indeed when people say "oh....you drive a Skoda Huh???".

I'd rather drive a Skoda than a Ford, Vauxhall, Rover, Citroen, Renault etc etc blah blah any day.

Re=-badge/De=badge WHY????

If you are ashamed then dont buy it in the first place. I LOVE the fact I drive a Skoda' date=' I get very smug indeed when people say "oh....you drive a Skoda Huh???".

I'd rather drive a Skoda than a Ford, Vauxhall, Rover, Citroen, Renault etc etc blah blah any day.[/quote']

Same.....

Also is it me do you find people don't refer to your car as a "Superb", "Octavia", "Fabia", "Felicia" etc. they just call it a Skoda cause they are that ignorent they dont know anything about the car and try to just have a go at the name "Skoda".

I love the old thing when people go aghh "its a Skoda"...... to which I reply...... "Yes, and what?"..... they reply ........... "its a skoda"........ to which i say.........."whats wrong with it then?"......... and all they say is............

you've guest it!!..........

"its a skoda"

in other words they have absolutly no argument!

- debadge the vRS logo on the Furby - get rid of annoying wannabe-racers that insist they must rev nutz of whatever they're driving to scream past so they can be overtaken again shortly after when they slow down again. Avoid tailgating variant of the same.

As for badge snobbery - a lot of peeps here are only 'the other way', no offence intended. Either way, who carez It's a car. It's a Skoda or whatever else. Still just a car. May be a car to be proud of or not, still just a car.

Had I bought a different one I would have been proud of it too, mainly as I've had to save my @rse off to pay for it in the first place.

As for badge snobbery - a lot of peeps here are only 'the other way', no offence intended. Either way, who carez It's a car. It's a Skoda or whatever else. Still just a car. May be a car to be proud of or not, still just a car.

Too right! I'm not loyal to a particular brand and I don't care what badge it has or the image associated with it. I have a list of criteria and if I find a car which meets them better, then I'll buy that one

Chris