Hi to all; a few words of introduction!

Until about 4 weeks ago, DH and I had very clear motoring choices. His - a rather tasty Triumph motorbike; mine - a similarly tasty (in my opinion at least!) Peugeot 206CC.

Sadly now, we have one trashed bike, one husband in a plastercast and one semi-pressing need for a bigger car with an autobox.

A friend suggested Octavia might be the way to go; I've test driven one and fallen in love!

Thought I'd find out what they're like to own, drive, run, etc. All comment and advice gratefully received.

hi and welcome to briskoda.. good choice of car, hubby could fit in the boot with his crutches...

Hello and welcome. Would make a good choice the Octavia. I think they drive very well, and suspension is well set up for British roads. Good levels of kit and the boot space is huge. Hope the recovery goes well.

Welcome

I brought mine as I needed a bigger boot for my golf & fishing stuff.

Nice cars with loads of room

Welcome and nice intro.

The Octavia is a very competent car which in most cases seems to please it's owners. I don't think you'll be dissapointed.

Hi and welcome

I have a red mkII octy and love it, you wont be disappointed.

Welcome to Briskoda

David

Hi , welome to the site! Having had 2 Mk1 Octavias I can thorougly reccomend one! What model and year are you looking at?

Hi and thanks for the welcomes!

I fear perhaps I'm being over-specific but I've been looking for a 1.8T, preferably in Estate (though so far have only driven Hatch, is Estate more "boomy" inside?).

Probably Elegance spec though if we could find an L&K I'd be tempted; it would give me the bells and whistles of my current toy :-)

Flexible on age; budget is around £5k as we need to keep something over for the husband to have a run-about when he's ready to go back to work.

Welcome :wavey:

If you need the boot space there isnt really much difference between hatch / estate ( except the lower floor in the hatch).

Not noticed any boom in the estates that I had been in, maybe this was due to the boot cover being on.