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The Octavia was on our wish list when we changed. On paper it was perfect but once we got up close things went down hill fast.
As other have noted it was incredibly noisy, the wife wanted to take it back immediately as it was hurting her ears, very difficult since we were on the motorway.
It had very little safety kit (we looked at SE spec). To bring it up to the standard of the competition added many hundreds of £'s and made it impossible to get a good deal since it mean't buying a factory order.
It had no spare wheel. No panic, simply add in the wheel as an option. But then you need to add in the raised boot floor for more extra money which robbed the boot space and made it smaller than our C-Max which had a spare as standard.
The rear seats were very low and would have made it very difficult for my mother to use the car. Because they were low you needed to sit with your legs outstreatched and since there was not that much leg room it was not comfortable.
The 2 local dealers we tried were both uninterested in selling us a car. In fairness it was during scrapage and at that time they could sell all the cars they needed to without negotiating but to make customers with money to spend feel unwelcome is not the way to run a bussiness. One was dealer of the year, god help the loosers.
Nice radio.
We didn't buy a VW either, their dealer was even worse.
Put new tyres on the C-Max instead.
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