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Our Fleet Test Drive: Skoda Yeti - 10th Report
Date: 06 December 2010 | Author: Hugh Hunston
Boot and headroom
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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.
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