Hope i'm not being naughty by cross-posting from my updated 'hello' message, but thought my enthusiasm for the Furby vrs needed a wider forum! It's a good review anyway.

I've had the car since Friday and i'm absolutely blown away.

The acceleration for passing slower moving traffic on b roads in 4th is absolutely brilliant and really helps towards the kind of practical speed I want for getting from A to B quickly and with minimum fuss and without having to drive at lunatic speeds for the rest of the journey. As a motorway hill climber it is superb, sprinting up them in 5th and more often 6th often leaving bigger cars behind or at least keeping up with them.

The ride is not what i'd become used to in my Audi A6 estate, (especialy on bad roads), but it's not fair to compare the vrs with a big German luxobarge with it's massive wheelbase and touring suspension. Although levels of equipment in the Furby are still far greater than what I had in an 8 year old Audi. Perhaps the Skoda could be described as a luxospeedboat?

I've done a little over a thousand miles since then, which is not a mileage I usually do in this period but it included getting the car from Derbyshire where I bought it back home to Tyneside and a fair few longish trips to the borders and Teesside. I've brimmed the tank twice, (without venting, and the mpg average has been what I expected, (or maybe a touch less), at 42.5mpg and 44.5 respectively. The trip computer was pretty much bang on with working out the mileage with pen and paper.

I have not gone over 3,000 revs for the first 1000 miles and am now going up to 3,500 regularly for the next thousand. However, I have still been accelerating quite hard up to those revs so hopefully the pistons are bedding in nicely. I am seeing very little smoke from the rear and the oil level has dropped maybe 2mm down the dipstick so oil consumption seems minimal.

I've not done much town driving, but was a little disapointed to see the trip 1 computer drop to the high thirties poodling around Newcastle this afternoon running some errands, but I had only driven 10 miles into town from cold, but then took a blast down to Teesside and back home where it went back up to showing around 45mpg.

There is absolutely nothing I dislike about this car to date, although the learning curve has been quite steep, (largely trying to fathom out the radio and get a conceptual grasp of the trip computer), I keep on coming across subtle details of using the car which never fail to impress. The cabin build quality is great, front legroom is superb and the feel of the solidity and finish is such that I don't even notice that i'm not in the Audi. I have never driven a car that leaves me with so little stress at the end of a drive, and the bad back which I only recently started to have appears to have all but disappeared

I'm an enthusiastic driver who enjoys his cars, (although not to the extent of many on these forums), but at the end of the day it is still just a tool to me, but what a fantastic tool. Practical performance is superb and largely beyond what I am generally comfortable using and the economy looks set to be very promising and well beyond anything I have ever seen in a car previously. This is a seriously well sorted car.

The only down side I have had, is that a lot of other drivers do actually seem to know what this is and either tailgate or try to provoke races, but dropping a cog or two and a quick dab on the juice before pulling over and letting them drop back or pass seems to make the point. I have had people occassionally being just generally horrid to me, (ie not making space when coming off slip roads or closing gaps when overtaking), but I think, (and hope), that this is new car jealousy rather than the badge, although I am thinking of removing the rear vrs badge in any case, so if anybody can give definitive info on the removal of this, it would be appreciated.

As a car in standard form, I think this is pretty unbeatable, althogh in saying that, I have not driven anything younger than 8 years old for a long time in comparison.

And finally, at the risk of sounding like Gwyneth Paltrow, I'd just like to say thanks to Paul at Autofinders, very little wait, great communications, great price and no dealer style patronising bull****. I want to buy a car, I know what I want and I can make up my own mind without having inanities spouted at me, cheers mate.

I just hope that I'm not back on these forums soon bemoaning my smugness!

Love it!

It can only get better.

Nice review

I ordered my new Furby vRS two months ago, and anxiously awaiting delivery 10th October..... longest wait ever! :(

I hope my first experiences will be similar to yours - can't wait !!!

ThePiper

Nice review that.

I notice consumption increases a lot when in town driving. You should start to see the normal day to day consumption get lower as the engine loosens up, maybe low 50's depending on length of journey and driving style. I don't actually worry about MPG that much, on a journey I can cruise at a comfortable speed and have some spirited moments and still arrive with low 50's.

Unfortuantely I think there is a bit of badge snobbery on the roads, some people really don't like being behind or overtaken by the Skud. Perhaps it's because it's a sooty, I don't know.

Glad you're loving it though - See it's not just Scoobies that can make you smile.

Welcome to the site & glad you like your purchase

Got mine last Thursday. Just gogsmacked, awesome are the only words to describe it. I,ve done a few things to it already as you can see. Getting a bluetooth set up fitted soon. Hope the experience of the last week gets better and better

Picked mine (sorry, the girlfriends- keep making that mistake ) up last Friday too.

I too am absolutely delighted with it. I echo the comment about it being unbeatable in standard form- there is nothing else which comes close to the package as a whole for anywhere near the money.

Haven't driven it as much as I would like (she keeps taking it to work- how selfish is that!? :P ) but hopefully I'll get a nice long shot soon. It's only got about 250miles on it so it definitely needs a good long run!

MPG (low forties) and brakes are the only dissappointing things so far, but I'm sure they'll both improve with miles.

Mark- how can you struggle with the stereo and the trip computer!? They're not exactly the most complicated systems around! :P

Hi Mark, glad you are loving the car

With regards to the ride on bad roads, i'm sure it will never be as smooth as your old car as its a different kettle of fish like you said. However, a few people on here have found (myself included) that the suspension is a little bouncy when its brand new and becomes smoother with miles as it loosens up a bit.

You mention you are in tyneside... theres a hill on the A1 going up past the angel of the north, the Fabia was great going up there, you can leave most cars for dust!!

Glad you like your car! Had mine since June and the only negative is a strange and persistent squeaking noise when i release the brakes. Other than that, i love it!

Congrats dude:thumbup:

Btw, are you in anyway related to Lucy Pinder?

You mention you are in tyneside... theres a hill on the A1 going up past the angel of the north, the Fabia was great going up there, you can leave most cars for dust!!

I have blasted the car up the Bowes Incline, (as it's known), and it is very good going up there. But the two hills that I've really noticed the performance on are the two bits of the A1 south of the Bowburn turnoff and then again just south of the Durham turnoff where the road goes from two to 3 lanes for perhaps 3/4 mile up hills and everybody with a decent car generally accelerates hard to get past the lorries overtaking each other before the road goes back to two lanes at the crests. Did both of those in 6th yesterday leaving a jag and bmw quite some way behind. Glanced at the speedo, and was shocked to see what it read. :eek: Thinks, dont want to do that too often if I value my license, (which I do).

The radio and trip computer aren't complicated, but I've never been good at reading instruction books so was being driven bananas by the traffic info function which kept on retuning the radio to those inane insincere ******* that generally work on local radio. Sussed it now and the thing works fine now, as does the trip computer. Again which is not really complicated, but I had to read the book after playing with the thing.

As far as I know, i'm not related to Lucy Pinder, but I once did a job pretending to be a glamour photographer promoting Sam Fox's new jam range in a photoshoot for Channel 4's 'Make My Day' with Jackie Degg and Leilani Dowding if that helps One of the more surreal evenings of my life

Looking forward to seeing how the car matures

Cheers,

Mark

Welcome to the club mate.

I've had mine for just over 2 months and 10,000km and am still amazed about how good the car really is. With previous cars it's usually been a one month fairy tale after which I start thinking about getting the next car in 3 years or something like that.. with the Furby I'm thinking about all the options I have to make it even more sweet.

The car is absolutely mad fun to drive.. there's nothing I like more than smoking some Audi A4 turbo's **** (1.8T naturally) in steep uphill climbs. Latest encounter this morning... ohhh the look on that poor blokes face getting humiliated by a furby.. total mad fun. Trust me, you'll see and love it. With Skodas in general old reputation brings even more fun to the equation. At least in .fi ppl are still totally uncomfortable about losing their road races to Skodas.

//Juha

If you remap it you wont need to be up a hill to outrun 1.8 turbo's you should keep pace with them to about 80 mph where the 1.8T will naturally start to pull away.

Got mine last Thursday. Just gogsmacked, awesome are the only words to describe it. I,ve done a few things to it already as you can see. Getting a bluetooth set up fitted soon. Hope the experience of the last week gets better and better

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