Evening all,

I’m back after owning a 2016 superb petrol back in 2017 ish.

Anyway, since Covid and getting a large mortgage, I’ve recently bought a 2010 Octavia 1.4 tsi elegance. It needs a bit of a tidy up, but I love the colour and the drive of the car. It’s done 89k and been very well looked after!

10 hours ago, DavidGee said:

Evening all,

I’m back after owning a 2016 superb petrol back in 2017 ish.

Anyway, since Covid and getting a large mortgage, I’ve recently bought a 2010 Octavia 1.4 tsi elegance. It needs a bit of a tidy up, but I love the colour and the drive of the car. It’s done 89k and been very well looked after!

I remember thinking a 1.4 would have been far too small for a car that size - the Kodiaq we’ve just got is a 1.5!

(Whether engine capacities that are odd numbers should even be allowed is a different question! 🤣 )

Yes, when the smaller engines first came out I always thought that, it’s become the norm now!

18 hours ago, ap0gee1978 said:

I remember thinking a 1.4 would have been far too small for a car that size - the Kodiaq we’ve just got is a 1.5!

(Whether engine capacities that are odd numbers should even be allowed is a different question! 🤣 )

To be honest, it all depends on your usage. We’ve had everything from a 3.2 and a 4.0, to a 1.0 and a 1.4.

The current cars are 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 - all do different things and all are equally happy going around town, or sitting on the motorway.

That said, power and capacity are a strange thing with regard to power curves. My first car was a 1.0 Focus which we had concurrently with a 1.4 A3. Despite only having 15bhp or so more, the Audi felt so much… I was going to say faster… so much less slow! That 1.0 110ps was simply not enough for a car that size. Fast forward to the subsequent 1.4 150ps Leon, and that thing was a rocket ship!

Sometimes power curves and the like are more important than raw figures or capacity.