The good thing about the Skoda version is you can get it in five door liftback and estate, manual/auto, petrol/diesel/petrol plug in hybrid forms.

Anyone (not in North America) wanting a better looking VW Golf GTi and in estate form, there is the Skoda Octavia vRS 242bhp 2.0TSi 6 speed manual.

Let me help you.

It’s the best pastry for a good pork pie and other savoury items.

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Ye’, though insurance is an odd ball. A neighbour whose parked car was hit by one of my colleague had his insurance go up, even though the colleague admitted clear fault and the colleagues insurance handled all of it. The neighbour didn’t use his insurance, merely told them the car had been knocked. When he asked why…

Ye’, it’s a tricky one because it’s where the costs are near equal to both parties, but also when equal fault by both parties, and also no fault can be established over the other individual.

In the U.K. it’s called a 50/50, where the liability or fault is shared.

Saloons just don’t make practical financial sense to me. Hatchbacks, liftbacks and estates make so much more sense.

Well Skoda did it for the Passat based Superb.

So 276bhp from this manual petrol car.

North America should of got the Focus Active estate.

Like I replied to Mehpisto, a Mokka then!?

So................. erm, Vauxhall/Opel Mokka then!?

I only found out the other month Suzuki offer a re-faced Toyota Corolla estate hybrid called the Suzuki Swace, that is only available in one engine size, petrol hybrid 120bhp 1.8, one transmission, automatic and one body type, estate.

Ye’, but what I’m saying is the Jimny is seen to be using a loophole, the Landcruiser is simply a commercial version of a regularly available vehicle just like the Fiesta, Zoe, etc...

i’m surprised it still has rear side windows.

It’s not really ‘under the same guise’ as we do still get the Toyota Landcruiser SWB and LWB both regular and commercial.

Subaru classes the Outback as an estate (U.S. wagon).

I like targa top cards or cars with only small sections of roof that fold away, much less metal to take off and hide.