..............I've never had so much interest shown in a car by total strangers. I've owned my Yeti for two and a half years and there's hardly a week goes by when someone doesn't walk up to me in a car park and asks my opinion about the Yeti, they are thinking of getting one, what's it like to drive,  etc etc.

I've had mine since March and have had many people, local and not, asking about it. Even watch them looking at it from the window when parked at my mothers.does create quite a lot of interest.

Mind you , it is normally nice and shiny.

Yup, becoming common as muck

Yeti has had quite a few comment but my first Smart Coupe about 14 years ago really brought on the intrigue and interest.

 

My lasting gem is when someone asked if it was electric. The sport was all mine as I revealed the Calor Gas cylinder in the boot and proclaiming it was gas powered!!. The timing was superb as i'd just picked up a refill for the patio heater.

..............I've never had so much interest shown in a car by total strangers. I've owned my Yeti for two and a half years and there's hardly a week goes by when someone doesn't walk up to me in a car park and asks my opinion about the Yeti, they are thinking of getting one, what's it like to drive,  etc etc.

 

Whilst your telling everone how good it is you coluld have someone at the back selling Flat caps and slippers and false beards  

Whilst your telling everone how good it is you coluld have someone at the back selling Flat caps and slippers and false beards  

At least they aren't asking " how much to the station?"

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Every Yeti owner is a sales(wo)man.

I've had mine 3 weeks and one neighbour's not talking to me (she wants one), the postman keeps stopping to talk about it (he'd like one), another neighbour mentioned Jeremy Clarkson's review (we don't talk to them), the landlord at the pub likes it (he drives a 290hp BMW 5 series), and a few random strangers have told me I've left my lights on (auto lights are great except in public).

I'm happy with it and that's what really matters.

I had quite a few folks come up and ask me about my Yeti when I first got it but these days it looks like everyone in and around Edinburgh who wanted one now has one - round here they're as common as white stilettos in an Essex disco.  I sometimes wonder if there's some kind of "underground railway" channelling Yetis into Edinburgh from the Czech Republic...

 

I did get asked about it a few weeks ago when I was down in Herefordshire.  Maybe it depends where you are.

nah over here from finistere, common as pooh around nth worcs/hfds/Monmouthshire, and glams recently did the trip to nth Newport(brynglas interchange) and probably saw 15 - 20 on the day!

 

conversely in finistere as rare as rocking horse dropping , 'cept the summer holiday period when there are loads of uk yetis paddling etc!

Are we reaching the - Oh Dear moment with the Yeti now.

 

 

Oh Dear the ch**s are buying them instead of the range rovers  lol  

Chap at our local recycling yard could not believe how much "stuff" we fitted in the back of ours last weekend. This time it was seats out and the entire old contents of the former kitchen "flat packed" in the Yeti. With all the cardboard packaging from the new, replacement units stacked in as well. "I didn't realise you could take the back seats out of these." says chap. "Yeah - its a doddle." says I. "Fold and remove a lot like our previous Renault Scenic, only with the Yeti, the seats don't fall apart when you try to put them back in!"

 

Said chap now reckons he wants a Yeti to replace his Mondeo estate.  He can't have ours! We're down to Cambridge with it this weekend to retrieve a daughter and all her stuff from college end of term.

 

I even had a full size grandfather clock in the Yeti a few months back, with the front passenger seat folded flat.  That also amazed some of the other folk unloading vans at a nearby auction centre.

 

The only thing so far I haven't managed to fit in the Yeti  that used to fit in the Grand Scenic is 7 people (OK 5 adults and two kids in the third row of seats).  But I don't miss that as we no longer have the need to seat 7.

The Yeti still hasn't become common in my opinion.

The fact that I see one or two every day, out of two/three hours driving means there aren't that many about as a percentage of cars on the road.

Being interested in them just means you notice them more.

 

I still get people asking about mine.

I've even had an older couple knock on the door and ask if it's got the electric seat as they couldn't find a dealer with one to sit it.

I've had all kinds of things on the drive, including a 600bhp Yellow GT-R, but it's the only car I've ever had someone (from another village passing through) knock on the door to ask about because they want one.

I used to get this with my w reg Octavia mk1 people though it had the wrong badge on it and couldn't believe it was a skoda

 

problem with the newer designs (citigo, rapid, fabia 3 ) they are becoming to much of a VW clone again, they have lost their quirky shape appeal

 

the seat's have a sort of distrinctive corporate shape but skoda seem to be losing it, pretty much only the grill is different to a vw

 

and now they are using S, SE and SE L they are even more of a VW clone

Edited 4 December, 201411 yr by bluecar1

The Yeti still hasn't become common in my opinion.

The fact that I see one or two every day, out of two/three hours driving

 

On our last seven-hour drive from Edinburgh to Herefordshire my Yeti count was easily into double figures - something like 15 IIRC - before I gave up counting.

 

there aren't that many about as a percentage of cars on the road.

 

Well, obviously not when you look at the huge numbers of more mainstream cars like the Focus and Qashqai that clutter up the highways.  How does it compare to more directly comparable cars like the Tiguan?  I'd say they're about the same (on the basis of absolutely no scientific evidence whatsover - this is t'Interweb after all!)

 

Being interested in them just means you notice them more.

 

There is certainly an element of that, I will admit.

Edited 4 December, 201411 yr by ejstubbs

problem with the newer designs (citigo, rapid, fabia 3 ) they are becoming to much of a VW clone again, they have lost their quirky shape appeal

 

At least the Yeti still has a fairly distictive shape.  I dread to think what the mark 2 will look like - I fear that it will end up being jelly-moulded and corporatised beyond recognition.

 

When my Impreza finally became uneconomic to repair, I took one look at the then-current version and walked away.  To me it looked like a Vauxhall, and I do have a certain amount of pride...

 

the seat's have a sort of distrinctive corporate shape

 

To me, the SEAT corporate 'look' generally seems to say "I am a ch*v".  But that might just be me.

Edited 4 December, 201411 yr by ejstubbs

On our last seven-hour drive from Edinburgh to Herefordshire my Yeti count was easily into double figures - something like 15 IIRC - before I gave up counting.

 

Well, obviously not when you look at the huge numbers of more mainstream cars like the Focus and Qashqai that clutter up the highways.  How does it compare to more directly comparable cars like the Tiguan?  I'd say they're about the same (on the basis of absolutely no scientific evidence whatsover - this is t'Interweb after all!)

 

There is certainly an element of that, I will admit.

 

I would have no idea, because there are so many boring looking cars out there I don't even register what they are when I pass them.

 

It's what I liked about the pre-FL Yeti, you can see it from some distance off and immediately know what it is.

 

It's not aspiring to be a "one face fits all" car like a lot of the mainstream (especially VAG) cars these days.

Ironic that it was designed to be different, then became a clone of the Octavia/Rapid as soon as it was facelifted.

bluecar1, on 04 Dec 2014 - 09:36, said:

the seat's have a sort of distrinctive corporate shape

 

To me, the SEAT corporate 'look' generally seems to say "I am a ch*v".  But that might just be me.

 not to my liking either, but they are recognisable as SEAT

 

Skoda just seem to be turning into std euro boxes on wheels, with the last few new models they even seem to have lost the value for money but quality badge