Help from a Furby owner needed.

As stated. I've got ( hoping to make a longish trip in the near future . Due to my hip problem I get problems driving for more than a couple of hours in mine, so was looking to hire an Octavia from Enterprise. The basic manual version is the cheaper option per day, but no mention of engine size, although it's a petrol one. So really what can I expect to get from an Octavia MPG wise. I'm that used to the Furby frugal side that I tend to be a true old pensioner training  for my next life ( I fly low  and close to the limit, often above it) .

Thanks in advance.

It's likely a 1.0 TSI 3 cylinder...and 60ish mpg is possible on a long trip I would reckon.

Thanks, mate, but is that with conservative driving or brisk driving. Furby gives me 50 at all speeds. They do a derv Skoda,, but's that;s an auto.And I dont like auto . Much pricier than a manual Insignia. And for the fun of it ,an Insignia is a large Furbia( with comparable MPG ) , apart from the fact that a 1.4 Furby at 70 will see off most other cars in a race to 90+ .

 

That would be with conservative driving, which is what it sounded like you would be doing from your original post. I could get 60 mpg out of my 1.2 TSI if I kept to the speed limit. I actually get 50 mpg driving fast but not accelerating too hard and avoiding braking by anticipating the conditions ahead.

I get 50 out of Furby under all driving conditions, . With hire Insignia's in past, I'v gotten better.  So sorry, Skoda, i'll move on to a car I know s more comfortable for a long trip and returns a known econeny.

First time I've ever heard of a car where the way you drive it (by far the most important factor) makes no difference the the fuel economy! Skoda must be working miracles.

Would it have been better we'd just said that it will do 50 mpg, but then you would have been cross if you'd achieved better?

On 13/04/2019 at 21:36, VWD said:

the fact that a 1.4 Furby at 70 will see off most other cars in a race to 90+

 

Wino- I've hired a few cars in the past few years, but only the first edition Insignia had the same get up and go of mine.

@VWD Since your primary reason for the hire car proposal is seating comfort  I hope you have actually sat in a hire car level Octavia for an extended period because from my recent experience of driving a loan Fabia (petrol, manual, loved it),  there was little difference in the seat type (both cloth) or comfort between the two. both offered similar adjustment and height.

 

 

Unless it says "guaranteed car model" you may not get an Octavia.

 

I've rented estates and gotten crappy tiny 3008 (in Luton), I've rented compact and got poverty spec Octavia (Switzerland), I've rented compact and got some horrible Hyundai mini SUV iX35 (New Zealand), I've rented intermediate and got a horrible C4 people carrier (France). It's rarely what's on the picture and almost always a poverty spec car.

Gerry- I've got an old ( 04 plate Fabia) and I find with hip problems that the new seats , especially on Insignias that they are more comforting than my chair.

WXY- personally ,I'm thinking of insisting on a diesel manual , so I'd expect to get an Insignia. I'm wondering if Skoda has gone down the route of one size fits all.

And it's only when you rent from a maker that you get a decent spec'd car.

Edited 15 April, 20197 yr by VWD

4 hours ago, wyx087 said:

It's rarely what's on the picture and almost always a poverty spec car.

 

As wyx087 says, you are not guaranteed the exact car advertised for most car hires.

 

I use Arnold Clark for work hire cars and the opposite of poverty spec is my experience, the cars are very new, a good spec and I odten get bumped up the car class.

I normally ask for a group 4 (Astra / Focus size) and at times I've had a 320d Msport, 118d Msport, Astra GTC, Insignia D Turbo (with 20" alloys), Focus ST-Line, Mini Cooper, none of which have been poverty spec but rather the opposite.

 

On the flipside, I've had Citroen C4 (like driving a boat), Fiat 500 XL (with the responsiveness of a breeze block), Peugot 3008 (criminally underpowered) and a Fiat Berlingo (just don't go there), but on the whole the spec of car is good. Incidentally, I had an Octavia which I think (?) Was the SEL with ACC.

 

I made the mistake receny of hiring from Enterprise in Leicester and alhough the car was ok (Insignia D Turbo) the car was far from clean (I drove back to Scotland with the windows open to try and get rid of the awful smell), had lots of dings all over and was generally very tired interior-wise.

 

Btw, I am no way affiliated to any car hire company!

10 hours ago, VWD said:

Gerry- I've got an old ( 04 plate Fabia) and I find with hip problems that the new seats , especially on Insignias that they are more comforting than my chair.

WXY- personally ,I'm thinking of insisting on a diesel manual , so I'd expect to get an Insignia. I'm wondering if Skoda has gone down the route of one size fits all.

And it's only when you rent from a maker that you get a decent spec'd car.

Seat comfort is a really personal thing especially if you have physical issues, so you are really on your own as far as selecting what is suitable for your purposes.

If the Insignia seats work for you then somehow that is the car you have to hire although like others I rarely got the car I expected.

My son's driving seat set up is totally unsuitable for me (and vice versa) despite similar physical dimensions.

Any car maker will try to make a seat that suits as many body types as possible, and for the least price. However as you go up the food chain in either, individual models, or across brands then seating options obviously tend to improve.

My wife and I are just lucky that we find local  base model Fabia and Octavia seats comfortable enough not to be an issue even though the driver's seat does not even have lumbar adjustment. We also prefer cloth seats for our South Australian climate.

16 hours ago, wyx087 said:

It's rarely what's on the picture and almost always a poverty spec car.

Whenever I've hired a car in the US I've always got a higher spec than I ordered, usually for the original price.

 

My Octavia was owned by a car hire company for the first year of its life - and I wouldn't call an Elegance a poverty spec.

No doubt, there is always "free upgrades" to higher group of cars (eg. Octavia from compact group, C4 people carrier from intermediate).

 

May be I'm just unlucky, or was expecting too much? I've always owned high spec cars, I was expecting ACC on the Octavia.......