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Our Fleet Test Drive: Skoda Yeti - 10th Report

Date: 06 December 2010   |   Author: Hugh Hunston

Boot and headroom
Category: lower medium crossover
P11D price: £15,820
Key rival: Nissan Qashqai

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
Mileage3906
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 intervalvariable 10,000-20,000mls
or 1-2 years
Insurancegroup 10E
Warranty3yrs/60,000mls
Boot space (min/max)416/1580 litres
(1760 litres rear seats removed)
Engine size/power1197cc/106PS (105hp)
Top speed/0-62mph109mph/11.8secs
Why we’re running itCan 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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