Category: Small Family 
Price Range: £16,966 to £16,966
Value for money, well-built, solid-feeling, neat, unostentatious styling.
Not a lot of rear legroom, nor the most inspiring or entertaining to drive.
If your priority is efficient, dependable, comfortable family motoring, why pay more for a VW or Audi?
The Octavia was the car to really bring Skoda back into the mainstream European car market, and deservedly so. It is a practically sized hatchback or estate, built on the same underpinnings as the Volkswagen Golf and Bora, but bigger than both; it's not quite as large as a Passat or Audi A4, though. It is the well-priced, well-equipped but no-frills and no-pretensions family car in the VW Group range, and is a comfortable, well-engineered all-rounder. The Octavia might not be the most sporting, quirky-looking or sophisticated European family car, but it's built to a high quality and delivers decent levels of satisfaction (it consistently scores well in consumer surveys).
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wrote on 13 09 2007
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