Our Fleet Test Drive: Skoda Yeti - 10th Report
Date:
06 December 2010
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Author: Hugh Hunston
Boot and headroom
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Category: | lower medium crossover | P11D price: | £15,820 | Key rival: | Nissan Qashqai | |
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Having taken four years nurturing the Yeti from wacky concept to fairly radical production reality last year, Skoda's interior designers have made the Yeti's interior a civilised place to travel.
A restrained, sober dark grey interior, with regulation anodised metal strips across the dashboard, incorporates plenty of well-placed storage places including a handy flip-up fascia-mounted cubby hole.
Meanwhile, more than generous headroom allows the discretionary wearing of top hats. Genuine off-roading owners with 4x4 variants, arguably almost as rare as the 'real' Yeti, would benefit from not clattering their heads off such a high ceiling when indulging in shake, rattle and roll rough terrain adventures. The Yeti provides front and rear grab handles for those infrequent occasions.
Also, a 10.3m turning circle has been a boon on metropolitan streets, although power folding mirrors would help.
The Yeti has redeemed itself on the economy front, partially through adroit use of cruise control on a return journey from Oxfordshire to south Wales. We registered 46mpg during that 420-mile spell, nudging the average to not far short of 40mpg.
Skoda Yeti 1.2 FSI petrol SE five-door, 6-speed manual | Mileage | 3906 | Claimed combined consumption | 44.1mpg | Our average consumption | 39.5mpg | P11D price | £15,820 | Model price range | £13,990-£22,640 | CO2 (tax) | 149g/km/18% | BIK 20/40% per month | £47/£95 | Service interval | variable 10,000-20,000mls or 1-2 years | Insurance | group 10E | Warranty | 3yrs/60,000mls | Boot space (min/max) | 416/1580 litres (1760 litres rear seats removed) | Engine size/power | 1197cc/106PS (105hp) | Top speed/0-62mph | 109mph/11.8secs | Why we’re running it | Can Yeti extend Skoda’s footprint and challenge Nissan’s Qashqai? | Positive: | Improved long inter-city economy | Negative: | No auto-folding mirrors for a wide vehicle |
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