Mileage 11,708 List price £20,030 Target Price £17,892 Price as tested £21,200 Test economy 44.8mpg
THE SKODA OCTAVIA has become a mainstay feature of our annual Car of the Year Awards, being named as our Family Car of the Year four times in the past five years. Plainly, then, this is about as good as such cars get.
And yet, I wondered, would the Octavia’s shine rub off if I had to live with it every day? This is undoubtedly a very practical and spacious family car, but it’s not what you’d call adventurous, and even the optional Corrida Red paintwork of our car doesn’t brighten that exterior up much.
Still, as the road test team continue to remind me, aesthetics are purely subjective, so rather than dwelling on the…
