OK, so the obtruding triangles are almost hidden in that view.

That's what I've been saying from the outset TP! They looked pronounced on the first CGI images due to the lighting but they are really very flat. I'm in Frankfurt right now but will only go to the show tomorrow.

Don't forget your ruler, Johann!

+1 for measurement of rear badge please.

That's what I've been saying from the outset TP! They looked pronounced on the first CGI images due to the lighting but they are really very flat. I'm in Frankfurt right now but will only go to the show tomorrow.

 

Making me jealous Johann, about 25 years ago since I managed to get to one of the big motor shows

 

Be interested in your thoughts on those projections once you have seen the FL but the photo's and video's of the real thing still suggest there excessive to my eye.

 

 

Oh and enjoy the show

 

TP

Making me jealous Johann, about 25 years ago since I managed to get to one of the big motor shows

 

Be interested in your thoughts on those projections once you have seen the FL but the photo's and video's of the real thing still suggest there excessive to my eye.

 

 

Oh and enjoy the show

 

TP

The last motor show I went to was as a nipper in the early 80's. The only car I remember seeing was a Nissan Sunny, which I thought was the business and I desperately wanted my old man to buy one! The reason I kept thinking about it was Datsun had just changed to the Nissan brand and I thought that this was a masterstroke of inspiration. In hindsight, the Sunny was possibly the most bland car out there at the time! Skoda, as you can imagine, did not have the greatest name then.....

The last motor show I went to was as a nipper in the early 80's. The only car I remember seeing was a Nissan Sunny, which I thought was the business and I desperately wanted my old man to buy one! The reason I kept thinking about it was Datsun had just changed to the Nissan brand and I thought that this was a masterstroke of inspiration. In hindsight, the Sunny was possibly the most bland car out there at the time! Skoda, as you can imagine, did not have the greatest name then.....

 

My driving instructor had a Nissan Sunny, although I failed my first test in it back in early 1984 Blame a Porsche driver for putting me off racing round a roundabout

 

Took my next test a few weeks later in my mums Austin Metro, which had been imported from Belgium and undergone a lhd to rhd conversion and passed

 

Can you imagine trying to convert a modern car of today in such a way

 

 

TP

I also think the top of the grille looks leagues better.  I made this image below to show the two side by side for easy comparison (click on the photo to see it bigger):

 

 

It is pretty clear now how much lower this new one sits than the old one.

 

wow, if that off-road version is same low I won't buy it. Starts happening with yeti what happened with rav4 :(

now it's a bigger citgo...

It seems the new Yeti is following the latest  'origami' look that seems to be developing in car design....

wow, if that off-road version is same low I won't buy it. Starts happening with yeti what happened with rav4 :(

now it's a bigger citgo...

The new "Outdoor" is no lower than the current 4x4, so I don't know what you are looking at!

It has exactly the same underpinnings and suspension. 

All that has changed is it's face and the hatch!!

wow, if that off-road version is same low I won't buy it. Starts happening with yeti what happened with rav4 :(

now it's a bigger citgo...

 

RAV4? Looks like the ignore list is due a new addition.

 

Fred

Ignore the ride height on both models, it will be all but identical to the current Yeti.

 

Skoda (and the rest of the VAG) have been lowering their computer aided pre-launch designs for years.

 

Slighlty enlarged wheels and tyres fill the arches creating a sleeker and more attractive profile.

Another example of Skoda's clever marketing strategy.

 

You couldn't even get your little finger between the top of the tyre and the wheelarch nevermind the hosepipe...

 

Even the vRS doesn't ride as low as this!

 

Loving the black effect headlights.

 

Normal ride height resumed!

 

 

 

More pictures from the Frankfurt Motor Show here...

 

http://www.carbuyer.co.uk/news/114625/new-skoda-yeti-2014-revealed

I seems a nice looking Yeti. I have one concern though, I have always thought that rear number plates had to be fitted vertically. How can this be accomplished on this FL rear door.

 I have one concern though, I have always thought that rear number plates had to be fitted vertically. How can this be accomplished on this FL rear door.

 

No. Legislation says that it has to be fitted so that it is visible in normal useage. Verticallity is not mentioned specifically (in UK C & U Regs)

Loving the black effect headlights.

That looks more panda than Yeti, but I guess that name's taken.

Making me jealous Johann, about 25 years ago since I managed to get to one of the big motor shows

Be interested in your thoughts on those projections once you have seen the FL but the photo's and video's of the real thing still suggest there excessive to my eye.

Oh and enjoy the show

TP

My flight back was delayed by an hour coming back so I only got to bed at 1:30 this morning. I'll post pics in due course (and badge measurements)

All I'll say is I'm keeping my Yeti quite a while longer.

My flight back was delayed by an hour coming back so I only got to bed at 1:30 this morning. I'll post pics in due course (and badge measurements)

All I'll say is I'm keeping my Yeti quite a while longer.

So you're not impressed after viewing in the metal?

Well it's still an impressive car and it still is clearly a Yeti.  Just that the tiny bit they moved it on, does not warrant the cost-to-change numbers for me.  It has not remotely moved on enough from what I have in my current Yeti alas.  And in the case of the Outdoor there are some bits that are seriously ugly... But let me do the pics before I get to that:

 

Externally they both look good and the fangs on the front corners are honestly hardly noticeable.  But then they had the Outdoor Yeti painted in the worst colour for a Yeti and an even worse colour for a motor show in that you can't see any of the details under the show lights.  A huge mistake to paint it that awful gun metal colour instead of perhaps the new Jungle Green...

 

The white Urban one is just plain too white and looks tacky with the sills all in white.  But maybe that is just the white.  The all silver roof rails will look good on other colours but silver does NOT contrast with white and it looks insipid and utterly awful.  Avoid white Urban Yetis by a country mile is all I will say - or at the very least have the roof black like the one they had on stand to contrast with the rails.  White only works with contrasting black bits Škoda!!!  Doh.  You NEVER use silver in these amounts (roof rails and front and back skid plate thingies) on white cars.

 

The all silver roof rails do look good on other colours though:

 

 

The flashlight is cute and lives ahead of the 12V socket in the boot.  It does come on when you open the boot.  I think the left hand one was also LED now but due to show cars being open the whole time and the electrics being set weirdly (and being powered from the electric grid) it was not working.

 

 

The L&K's brown seats looks lovely but because they are so subtle they don't make that big a change inside as I had hoped (over what I have now).

 

 

 

 

The "brown" Goldtastic accent strip in the Urban they had on stand also looked awful and doesn't go with ANYTHING in the cabin.  It will however go well in a JPS liveried Yeti.     Not that Brimma will ever get a Yeti.

 

 

The L&K was a DSG and alas, the one on stand did have the new three spoke steering wheel but there were no DSG paddles.  :-(  I'm still hoping that will finally be an option.

 

Now the exterior bits.  As mentioned before the roof bars now only have one position out front and one out back - so four bolts out back instead of six.

 

 

The worst bit?  The LEGO and extremely plasticky and tacky grilles all over the nose of the Outdoor:

 

 

From this angle the upper grille looks ok:

 

 

But dearie me go to normal head height and look down and the gaps are big enough to pass a baby through, a fly looks as if it will break these things in half at 40mph and the ENTIRE radiator and ugly gubbins (including some black what looks like polystyrene) is on display.

 

 

 

Really utterly, utterly awful.  I was so disappointed by this I walked off to the VW stand and did not go back to the white one to see if the Urban has the same problem.

 

As to the rear badge here it is next to my friend's iPhone 5 and his hand and then my finger:

 

 

 

By my measurements that is the same 110mm as the current Yeti.

 

All in all still a lovely car yes.  The grille won't put me off totally - it's a mild disappointment - but all in all there is not enough new there to make me change.  Nothing wrong with my Yeti and it has only done 27,000 miles.  So I'm keeping him for some time more.

Thanks, Johann - and I do share your concerns about the 'tacky' all white and the hideous grilles on the outdoor!

 

Thankfully, I've no plans/need to change for a while, just rolled over to 20k.

 

I might run to a tailgate badge though - will keep an eye on ETKA for a part number!

Thank you johann, interesting and balanced observations.....

All very interesting and useful pictures. I decided to place my order last month so as to get a pre-FL model as I was not too impressed by the early computer generated images of the FL model. I do not regret my decision now (a relief); as others have remarked previously, some of the "character" has gone - although in practical terms that does not matter I suppose ...

I can see what will become one of Superskoda's next items to make for the FL.  A chrome grille ala the Chinese version:

 

Thanks for posting these photos Johann! You get a much better idea when seeing the car in the 'flesh' so to speak than the computer generated images.

The grille has a BMW feel about it? At the end of the day, I hope it's a big sales success for Skoda.

the lamps switch same as in octavia - looks cheap :(