Category: Compact MPV 
Price Range: £10,045 to £14,210
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.
Most economical is the 80bhp 1.4 TDI, which manages 54.3mpg on the urban fuel test cycle - better than the 70bhp version manages, although the latter is cheaper to buy as, unlike the more powerful version, it's offered in the Roomster 1. Thirstiest, unsurprisingly, is the 1.6 petrol with an official average of 39.8mpg, still a respectable figure. The engines' relatively low power for their size should keep insurance costs down, too.
The Roomster range is cheap for what it offers, but its quality and Skoda's improving reputation should keep residual values firm. These will be cheap cars to run, helped by 10,000-mile/one-year servicing intervals. The guarantee is the usual three years or 60,000 miles.
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wrote on 28 08 2007
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