Size matters

I recently made the acquaintance of Chester’s Pepper Street car park, and if you’re a local, you’ll know what a joy that was.  Apparently dating from the early 1960s and abutting Chester’s city walls, the Chester Live website was moved to describe Pepper Street thus: “Cramped, damp, dirty. Ugly, ill-planned, unfitting. Concrete, but not even […]

Skoda Octavia vRS 2.0 TDI DSG AUTOMATIC

Old habits die hard, I guess. I was pretty confident that we’d turned a page with Skoda, as all was going to be well after our somewhat problematic Octavia estate that preceded the vRS. After all, and I’ve said it before, the perceived improvement in build quality of our vRS is really noticeable. It’s a […]

Skoda Octavia vRS 2.0 TDI

Well hello there game changer – the sportiest set of wheels to be found in the Our Cars pages of Diesel Car & Eco Car, currently. We’ve switched from the modest cabbie’s favourite up to the full fat choice of the UK constabularies and got ourselves an Octavia vRS, Skoda’s take on a Golf GTI […]

Skoda Octavia Estate SE-L FIRST EDITION 2.0 TDI

Report Seven So the Octavia hasn’t exactly been good as gold whilst with Mr Fossdyke, but as far as I’m concerned, the car comes to me with a clean sheet, and we’ll see how long that lasts. Niggles encountered aside, James was positive towards the Octavia, and who can blame him. It’s a Skoda and […]

Skoda Octavia Estate SE-L FIRST EDITION 2.0 TDI

Report Six Despite being back from the menders’ and supposedly fixed, it comes as no surprise that the Skoda’s electrics are still playing up. Thankfully, issues are a lot less frequent than before, with just the occasional error message flashing up on the dashboard, but it’s still common enough to be irritating. It’s a shame, […]