I must be mad. I am swopping, with a cash adjustment to the dealer, our 07 Octavia Ambiente tdi with just 9,000 miles for a Fabia Sport, 57 plate, in the less than desirable Red colour in 1.9 Tdi format. The Octavia is faultless no squeaks, no rattles, great car with big boot for a fabia suffering wind noise around the mirrors, small boot and ugly too high appearance. Why am I paying money to do this - well I just like the Fabia sport specification. The fabia will be our family car - but no good for camping holidays?

Am i the only person in the UK to like the fabia sport? Even worse am I the only person to be buying one? Pick up is Monday? Advice and views

seems a bit daft to me, unless you really must have a smaller car

Theres a few Sport owners on here I think! Have you had a go in one before you ordered it??

I traded 05 Ambiente 1.9tdi and now enjoying Fabia 3 1.9tdi in red. Its been a good choice, good build quality and going well. Enjoy

I must be mad. I am swopping, with a cash adjustment to the dealer, our 07 Octavia Ambiente tdi with just 9,000 miles for a Fabia Sport, 57 plate, in the less than desirable Red colour in 1.9 Tdi format. The Octavia is faultless no squeaks, no rattles, great car with big boot for a fabia suffering wind noise around the mirrors, small boot and ugly too high appearance. Why am I paying money to do this - well I just like the Fabia sport specification. The fabia will be our family car - but no good for camping holidays?

Am i the only person in the UK to like the fabia sport? Even worse am I the only person to be buying one? Pick up is Monday? Advice and views

Good for you

It's your money and your choice - The Fabia Sport looks very good IMO, far better than a fairly basic spec Octavia II.....

You frequent this site therefore your obviously a car enthusiast, being a car enthusiast means that common sense often dosen't come into running/buying cars.... and I should know - who else would swap a 50mpg 1.9 TDI for a TFSI Octy VRS when they know dam well that their milage is going to double over the next 12+ months and fuel prices are rocketing

Swopping a 1.9 Tdi for a TFSI VRS is not that daft. You currently pay 45 pence more for a gallon of diesel. The VRs is tremendous with diesel type torque and looks fantastic.

Good on you. I like Sporty skoda cars they are under rated and subtle.

Swopping a 1.9 Tdi for a TFSI VRS is not that daft. You currently pay 45 pence more for a gallon of diesel. The VRs is tremendous with diesel type torque and looks fantastic.

Good on you. I like Sporty skoda cars they are under rated and subtle.

Is that based on running it on bog standard unleaded or V-Power? I'm paying the same amount for V-Power as diesel costs, so I'm definately loseing out

As you say though, perfromance and looks wise it more than makes up for it

Agree 100% with you on Sporty Skuds as well - the aim is to get the other half in to a Fabia Sport come September time... thing it will look great on the drive next to the VRS