Skoda Octavia: Our Octavia was spacious, impressively frugal and barely put afoot wrong

摘要

PLAY WORD ASSOCIATION with Skoda and you'll probably come up with 'no-nonsense', 'roomy' and 'cheap'. While those words are perfectly okay, a year with our Octavia has proved that VW Group's budget brand offers a lot more. Our favourite version is the 1.2-litre petrol but because I do a lot of long journeys, I was keen to try a diesel. The 2.0-litre model caught my eye, seeing as it is both powerful (148bhp) and economical (52.5mpg, according to our True MPG tests).