So, I have to do a few outings for work, usually I get a 12 plate Focus 1.6 diesel, nice but feels heavy to drive. Unfortunately for me, I got in there too late and had a hire car booked for me.

Vauxhall Corsa 1.4i SE 64 place. Good god it's the most awful thing. It is so basic inside, has no *go* confusing interface in just about everything. The only things it had over the Rapid were heated seats (nice) and steering wheel, auto variable windscreen wipers and lights.

But, it was just horrible to drive, back was killing me and I literally had to have the radio pretty much full blast to hear it over the noise in the cabin, was deafening. I couldn't hear my sat nav! Which later died as the power outlet didn't work.

I longed for my Rapid, makes me realise we take for granted just how nice they are, how well they are built (mostly) I can't wait for tomorrow when we are reunited.

Anyone else felt the same when stepping into another car after your Skoda?

I had a Corsa as a courtesy car when my Transit was last serviced. It was pure poo and so slow. Handled reasonably well though.

Alas, since I bought the Rapid the only other car I have driven has been a Fabia II Combi - which I find to be far more comfortable with a better heater, lights and rear window.

The Rapid is not bad at all, just the Combi IMHO is better.

My rapid HAS heated seats .... hehehe......

Ps, and auto wipers and lights....

We love our rapid. Best value quality car we have ever had..

No one likes a brag Rednaxela. haha. It is a great car. Those things don't really bother me to be honest. I Just like not having to rag the nads off it to get it to go anywhere fast unlike the Corsa which appears to roar in pain when attempting to get it to move. Rubbish.

Ps, and auto wipers and lights....

We love our rapid. Best value quality car we have ever had..

So does my 12 year old Clio

Find the Spaceback a better drive to all marks of Fabia including the new one and I also prefer it to the Octy III I had previously.

 

 

 

TP

since owning the rapid(o), I've driven fiesta (good) corsa (utter rubbish) mazda 6 wagon (ok) and US ford fusion (junk).

Oh and an honourable mention to the previous gen astra eco - diesel, 6 gears, drove well and didn't seem to use hardly any fuel at all.

I loved mine to pieces and now it is [emoji16]

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I used to have to drive loads of these Corsa's for work - they're dire. If they ever try to give you a 1.4 Auto, just say no. They're that slow it's borderring on dangerous.

My last two Civics had auto lights and auto wipers. To be honest they are both things that I like to be in control of. The auto lights would invariably come on and off again when going under a bridge and the wipers would regularly go into hyperdrive even though it was only spitting of rain.

 

I had one of the last shape Vectras and any time I went over a pothole or sunken  drain it felt like the suspension was going to break.

 

I've never fancied heated seats unless you had leather and it would warm them up in those cold winter mornings but I always thought that it would feel like you had poo'd yourself

 

To be honest, the only things I would have liked would have been a heated windscreen and parking sensors - particularly now that I have zero visibility out of the back window after having them tinted. Neither were important enough or I would've bought a car that had both. I have been looking at these though but I don't think I'd be brave enough to fit them myself, maybe on an older car but not this one.

I'm currently in a vauxhall insignia... To say the phone call a moment ago from enterprise asking if I'd like a skoda Octavia was music to my ears is an understatement!

I agree about auto lights being dangerous, but on the Rapid the DRL's are on anyway, so when it makes the switch over, there is not much difference.. On our golf, they were automatic and I always worried someone would think I was letting them out in front of me if they came on at just the wrong moment.

We preferred the space back look, but needed the boot of the rapid.

Well, hats off to Enterprise, although I may know what the replacement for the rapid will be! The Octavia Elegance has every thing I want (including auto lights)! The 5 speed gear box was a surprise but I guess thats cause I'm used to the 6 speed in my 1.2 TSi and not the TDI version. Anyway it feels like the build quality is right up there with, dare I say it, Audi! 

Got my car back today. Incredible difference, the turbooo. Didn't feel like I was driving my 1.2!! It is quick, responsive, wonderful light gear change and steering. Bootiful. May I never have to drive a Corsa again. Which is probably going to be unlikely as my boyfriend has a 11 year old Corsa which I also hate. :( he too prefers my car over his lol

Got my car back today. Incredible difference, the turbooo. Didn't feel like I was driving my 1.2!! It is quick, responsive, wonderful light gear change and steering. Bootiful. May I never have to drive a Corsa again. Which is probably going to be unlikely as my boyfriend has a 11 year old Corsa which I also hate. :( he too prefers my car over his lol

get him to part exchange it for a rapid!

_{Consensus reached. Corsa's are junk, I drove a 2012 400 miles back to back with a 2012 fiesta and it was like night and day.}

 

_{Mind you both have horrid cheap instruments, but in the fiestas case everthing else was good.  The corsa didn't go, handle, grip or do anything nicely at all.}

I am also having to use a work car at the moment which is a 4 year old fabia estate 1.2 TDi i think it sound like a sewing machine and its only redeeming feature is cruise control

 

Its a big step down from my TDi VRS DSG or even swmbo's rapid......

 

condolences on the corsa btw.....

I'm having to use a Citigo Sport instead of a Rapid Sport [emoji106][emoji16]

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I'm having to use a Citigo Sport instead of a Rapid Sport [emoji106][emoji16]

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Shouldn't there be a minimum bhp figure before a manufacturer can put a "sport" badge on it?

 

I mean yes they are quickish for a 1.2, but sport?  Rapid Styleplus in Europe seems a more honest model designation.

Haha yes just kind of Sport look [emoji6]

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Well, hats off to Enterprise, although I may know what the replacement for the rapid will be! The Octavia Elegance has every thing I want (including auto lights)! The 5 speed gear box was a surprise but I guess thats cause I'm used to the 6 speed in my 1.2 TSi and not the TDI version. Anyway it feels like the build quality is right up there with, dare I say it, Audi! 

 

Having replaced an Octy III SE Estate 4x4 with our Spaceback I cannot quite agree with your impressions of the Octy. For me anyway I found over time the seating position and offset foot pedals became very uncomfortable, even on a 20 mile run and the build quality of ours was no better or worse than the Spaceback. Oh and the Spaceback handles better than the three our four 2wd Octy III examples I tried, albeit to be fair they were early production cars.

 

IMHO the Rapid/Spaceback and even the Fabia series have far better drivers ergonomics, particularly when it comes to the seating, steering and foot pedals being lined up properly and having room to rest both your feet in cruise. 

 

So apologies Skoda but I couldn't recommend the current Octavia III to anyone from my 6 month 8k ownership experience.

 

 

TP

I think 150PS minimum should be sport level.

At least our Sport doesn't have a Sport badge, so the man on the street won't have a clue it was purchased as a sport.

My Polo R-Line looks like it's high performance, but because it's badged as R-Line, it's honest about its true nature.

Perhaps Skoda should come up with a similar term, perhaps V-Line.

A full 60ps is a Sport [emoji16] haha.

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