I'm currently looking at purchasing a car for work, taxi driver.

Only ever driven octavias 1.6 tdi and recently 1.5tsi act.

Test drove a 1.0 tsi se yesterday and was surprised how well it drove, was expecting it to be sluggish with a considerably smaller engine than I'm used to.

Will mainly be used short stop start journeys with an old dear and shopping in the boot with the occasional boot full of suitcases with 4 extra bodies going to the airport

Bit of gogogling suggests carbon build may be an issue that'd need monitoring, anything else i need to know to help make a decision ?

I assume you have factored the lower cost of petrol against the higher MPG of a TDI?

Four passengers with suitcases would suggest a Combi as opposed to a Hatch - If going down the TSI route, suggest looking for a 1.0TSI 110 or 116PS engined version, which, for a manual, have the 6-speed box.

Edited 18 hours ago18 hr by Warrior193
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Even with the advances in engines these days I think you'll find that if you ever travel fully loaded with passengers and luggage the car will struggle.

A car may appear nippy when it's just yourself driving (the default situation for many cars) but if you have the opportunity, try a test drive "fully loaded" to see how suitable a workhorse it may be.

Our local taxis drive a lot of octavias. Reckon every second one is one. Last one I was in was a 1.0tsi and taxi driver said it was excellent. I too was really surprised when he said it was only a 1.0 litre. It felt like my 1.6tdi

Alasdair

1 hour ago, Sofo said:

Even with the advances in engines these days I think you'll find that if you ever travel fully loaded with passengers and luggage the car will struggle.

A car may appear nippy when it's just yourself driving (the default situation for many cars) but if you have the opportunity, try a test drive "fully loaded" to see how suitable a workhorse it may be.

When relative engine power is considered, it was pretty common in the past for a private taxi to have a 2 litre NA engine - a modern 1.0TSI easily matches that!