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Quite fond of mine in black.

Graphite grey with sports kit... Mmmmmm

Looks good as does the black, guess i will have to see the two cars in the flesh to see if i will buy either.

I prefer the Octy II in estate varient as well. Although the grey one in the pics looks a bit high on the suspension.

Raar estate turned out to be a hatch... not impressed.

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My fiance has an octy II estate in 1.9tdi form. Strangely, when I drive that, road noise is better than on the octy II vRS hatch I test drove for a day last week. This I put down to 16" wheels with a comfy tyre and softer suspension on her estate.

In the same form, I can believe that there is no difference at all, but so much depends on road noise.....size of wheels, tyre choice, suspension. If I had an estate, I'd have 17's with a tyre with bigger trye wall, but the hatch I'd have the 18's to benefit from gained lateral grip. I'd then expect the hatch to have greater road noise to the estate.

I say just get the one you like the best. I'm getting a hatch, cause I don't need the room and it's a more focused drive.

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Yep... dog. The exact reason I got the vRS in estate version

I just liek the ability to throw anything in or sit in the boot and have a coffee or food in the boot of the car.

Back to my point about the flush floor in the Elegance, great for walkers, especially if its raining when you need to put your boots on & off, and put on waterproofs etc.

Can sit comfortably in the back with tailgate open, and, providing you have parked head to wind, keeping quite dry.

Not really possible with a hatch.

Echo the point about dog, although we don't have one anymore.