Bought my first Škoda few weeks ago, have had quite a bunch of different cars during last twenty years, from Suzuki Alto to Chevy Caprice and very different year models from early 70's to a brand new Ford few years ago. Tried to be a decent family guy with a newish normal people's family car, but after a while I felt very stupid to burn that amount of money every month for a car that is losing it's value no matter I do or don't, and isn't interesting to me at all. So I let it go and dived back to the beautiful world of ****boxes.

 

I really appreciate practicality in cars, smaller the outside and bigger the inside is what I was looking for. As a bonus you get very odd looks with a cars like that. Was looking for a bit more modern subtitute for a trustworthy Yaris Verso and after some research I found precious Škoda Roomster. It meets my standards in every way, with a front from hatch and rear from a delivery car. Searched for a one with lot of optional equipment (after a Yaris that had nothing but power windows front) and not a lot of price and found one. Stylish black metallic color, acc, 4x power windows, panoramic roof window, cruise control, towing hitch, top of the line 1.6 petrol engine and everything. After those 17 years on northern winters with road salt, ice mud and snow outside and lot of dogs inside there is definitely a lot of work to do, but I'll try my best to give it as much years to stay on the road as possible. At least the smell inside is much more comfortqble after a full wash, next thing is fresh up the brakes and put in some bearing that rolls buttery smooth to let this beast rock and roll nearly as new. In few weeks it's going to be multifuel too.

 

As you might have guessed, I'm probably going to ask a question or two in the near future, so we'll hear!

 

 

Good morning Jatra, welcome to the forum. From your comment about converting to multifuel,  I'm guessing petrol is horribly expensive there?  

Well quite so, these days it's something like 1,8€/l, been over 2€/l some times ago. (R)E85 is not very cheap eather, it's like 1,2-1,4€/l but driving a older car it's a bit of a statement to be able to make it run very enviromental friendly in the middle of all those Teslas and other world saviours with tons of lithium thats running out a lot faster than alcohol. Even if we put it to our tanks and throats.

How big a mortgage do you have to take for a bottle of Scotch nowadays? I can still remember some of your Countrymen visiting Moscow just for the Vodka when I was on a trip there in the 80's

I don't know about the 80's as I wasn't allowed to buy any vodka back then, but today you can afford a bottle of Scotch at the pay day. Not monthly of course, if you want well aged single malt but some blend in plastic bottle is reasonable priced and still better tasting than E85. These days we don't visit Moscow for any reason, but Riga is told to be the right place for some vodka tourism if you need a lot of that.