Category: Compact MPV 
Price Range: £10,055 to £14,220
Loads of room, extraordinary design, very versatile seating, well made, quiet, comfortable and surprisingly, fun to drive. Good crash test results - and good value too.
You can't fully hide boot contents, gloveboxes are small, no FSI engines and that's about it.
Here's a car of the future, very useful, highly individual-looking and great to live with. It's rational with a wacky twist, and sets Skoda up as its own creative force.
The Roomster has scored the full five stars for adult protection in the Euro NCAP crash tests, plus four out for four for child protection - yet it's not just been designed to score well in these laboratory-condition tests, but in real life as well. Just two stars for pedestrian protection, though it will still meet the required standards of 2010.
There are front, side and curtain airbags, all three rear seats have three-point belts, and Roomsters can have an interesting variation on the cornering lights idea by combining steerable headlights with wide-angle foglights which come on automatically when cornering tightly at low speeds. ABS and electronic brake-force distribution are standard, as usual, and ESP is optional. Thankfully, the company doesn't want to force annoying seat-belt warning beeps on its buyers. Good thing too, we say, given that nearly everyone belts up anyway.
Security consists of the usual immobiliser plus windows laser-etched with the VIN number.
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wrote on 28 08 2007
wrote on 24 05 2007