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Top Gear - and so it proved to be

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Purely by accident I happened to catch the top Gear repeat on BBC3 last night where Mr Clarkson did his level best to destroy the then new Yeti, including landing a helicopter on the roof. He clearly came away very impressed with all aspects of the car and, after 13 years of owning mine (and neither trying to land a helicopter on the roof nor using it as a mobile tattoo studio) I have to say he wasn't wrong. I'll repeat that as you don't often hear it. Jeremy Clarkson wasn't wrong. Yes, the Skoda Yeti has proved itself to be Top Gear.

Loved by many Car Reviewers / Journalists / Vloggers over the years. There are some big time Youtube Vloggers that have done vids in the past couple of years bigging up the Yeti. Funnily none seem to have ever bought or owned one, just driven ones lent to them.

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Had two Yeti's 2014 1.6D + 2017 2ltr D SE Drive.

Both fantastic cars. Would have got a new one in 2025 but alas no more new Yeti's.

Sad to say, after looking for ages went for a Yaris Cross hybrid GR.

Still miss the Yeti, now if they made a new Yeti 1.6petrol Hybrid & just shaved a few Kg off.......

I am certain that Skoda will use the name again for an SUV in the future.

As it might be several years away and it probably won't be anything like the original, apart from the concept, I would enjoy your Yeti. If you have the 150ps 2.0 diesel, it's got 300,000 miles in it - so that should do for 20 years more 🙏

Never owned a Yeti myself but always liked the look of them.

If you go to just before 11 minutes in this video you can see this one has 395,000 miles on the clock - a great testament to the long-lived potential of the Yeti if looked after well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sl1skp8ZD8

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