I inherited Vladimir the Favorit from my mother after I passed my driving test and she immigrated to America. She bought him three years ago for

It will be a big and good step up for you!

don't let anyone put you off buying a Fabia VRS as I have lately seen many Octy peeps putting people off when they introduce themselves to wanting to buy a VRS FAB. It's shocking to see it on a skoda forum.

good luck in fixing Vlad!

Poor old Vlad.

Our L reg Fav (bought for £1,000 and written off 2 years later for £1,200 ) was always pretty reliable actually - not very fast, maybe, but it did everything reasonably well for the couple of years we had it.

And it survived the 70 mph writing-off accident without any significant body deformation and not a scratch on me, which can't be bad.

Hope you can get Vlad back to behaving properly!