Skoda Octavia Scout - First Drives - Carmagazine.co.uk

Seems to be aimed more at the traditional Scooby driver rather than the Sloan Square/School Run, brigade.

It is clearly a case of Car magazine doing their usual damming with (less than) faint praise.

Bottom line is that this car is designed for the suburban, modern-perhaps-locally-prized-housing-estate-dwelling, pretentious and gullible folk, who pay (for them) big bucks for how their relatively crappy vehicles look on the driveway to the neighbours peeping through curtains drawn, or while they block the roads on the school or supermarket run.

As a long-standing reader of Car, I assure you this is the true between-the-lines review. They are saying you should buy a basic diesel Octavia, cut the cr*p, and go for value rather than the BS.

It is clearly a case of Car magazine doing their usual damming with (less than) faint praise.

Bottom line is that this car is designed for the suburban, modern-perhaps-locally-prized-housing-estate-dwelling, pretentious and gullible folk, who pay (for them) big bucks for how their relatively crappy vehicles look on the driveway to the neighbours peeping through curtains drawn, or while they block the roads on the school or supermarket run.

As a long-standing reader of Car, I assure you this is the true between-the-lines review. They are saying you should buy a basic diesel Octavia, cut the cr*p, and go for value rather than the BS.

I agree to an extent, but I think CAR have forgotten about the type of driver than needs occasional 4x4 drive. I come from a hilly part of the country and 4X4 is almost essential, the downside being that the roads are always blocked by faux 4X4 drivers and so you can not drive anyway. But the original Scoobys developed a trusted following not because it had an all alloy, quad cam, frameless window design, but because it was good in the mud and snow. If we didn

it's also in autoexpress this week

Looks like they've all been getting their mitts on one.

Follow the link for Autocar's take on the Scout

I appreciate their closing comments, but a Freelander, CRV or X-Trail will struggle to match an Estate Car on mpg. But a Diesel Forester....... now that would make my next car choice a lot harder!

Niall

Not a bad review, I tend to rate Carmagazines reviews better than Topgears still though.

Given that Skoda have just announced the 1.8TFSI is replacing the 2.0FSI, I presume this will find its way to the Scout too?

Perhaps they've forgotten people who need a 4x4 but simply don't like the SUV style of Landies, etc. Not everyone wants a car based on a training shoe. Our local smallholders 15-20 years ago drove 4x4 hatchbacks and seemed to manage.

I like the cout, I work on sites around cumbria, often up lanes and frequently scrape my MK1 octavia on the ground. Therefore somehting with 4x4 and raised ground clearance is a good choice, plus as stated it will benefit from lower running costs than a SUV.