Originally Posted By davewasbaloo This morning Sarah's car was pronounced dead, or at least on life support. The 10 year old car (my first newly purchased car), with 120000 on the clock decided to slowly creep towards a death. The repairs costing more than 3 times the value of the car, although slightly ahead of schedule caused us to place an order on a new car. As some of you may know, we have been looking for a while, but put things on hold to save up a decent deposit. Well, we have not saved much, but I dug deep and placed an order for a Skoda Superb Laurin and Klement 2.5 V6 TDI Tiptronic (basically an Audi A6 for a fraction of the price). The waiting list is 3 - 6 months to get the color of one's choice, so to get one soon, we had the choice of Black or Charcoal. We opted for the Charcoal and hopefully will get it next week!!!! We wanted a blue or red, but weren't prepared to wait 6 months. I am very excited! <a href="http://www.skoda.co.uk/skoda3g/content/showroom/superb/superb.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.skoda.co.uk/skoda3g /content/showroom/superb/superb.aspx</a>
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove "luxurious, stylish car owned by wealthy entrepreneurs and royalty alike"
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Thank you. And I forgot to say, because the garage owners are friends, they've offered to trade in our totalled old car, gave us a decent discount off the ticket price, and lent us a car until ours arrives! I'm really excited!
Originally Posted By Ursula Very nice! And look, you can drive it to the snow OR to tennis...or you can pick-up hitch-hikers dressed for the office. How lucky for you!
Originally Posted By Ursula Hhhm, I noticed in the ocean shot, that the peoples are all inside of the car. Typical English weather, I'm sure.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Very cool! (But don't let them give you one with the steering wheel on the wrong side like in the photos. Honestly, the things these car companies try and pull....)
Originally Posted By friendofdd Congratulations. Nothing like a new car to make a man feel he is taking care of his family and getting a new toy at the same time. >>>A great combination of elegance, self-confidence and advanced technology, the Superb Elegance now offers colour satellite navigation, luxurious leather upholstery, hidden mickey in the grillwork and a mickey-as-pirate antennae ball. as standard.<<<
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Lol! Indeed - if only our fellow residents didn't feel theneed to steal our antenna balls!
Originally Posted By avromark Congratulations on your compact mid-size, err I mean in UK large saloon. So you went back to Skoda, Skoda pulled out of the Canadian market about the time Sarah's car was made. So yep I know what a Skoda is. Considering the urban jungle you drive through why didn't you just go with an Escalade ESV? Dark Grey is fine You'd have fun with a Diesel in California wouldnt you? I actually think modern diesels are nicer then most petrol vehicles, the nice pull of torque eh. Welcome to the 2000's Sarah So does the hood still open "backwards" from normal?
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Those old Skodas bear very little resemblance to the modern ones. Since VW Group took them over 10 years ago, the one we have coming has a VW Passat Chasis, Skoda body, Audi A6 engine and transmission. So the hood opens as normal. ;-) I haven't heard of an Escalade ESV before. As for Sarah, sadly she is getting a hand me down, my Skoda Octavia Laurin and Klement Estate (Station Wagon for North Americans).
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Here's the hand me down for Sarah - <a href="http://www.skoda.co.uk/skoda3g/content/showroom/newoctavia/gallery1.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.skoda.co.uk/skoda3g /content/showroom/newoctavia/gallery1.aspx</a> 3.5 years old, 83,000 miles on the clock. Hopefully Sarah can slow this one's audomiter down as she does about 2000 miles a year!
Originally Posted By avromark See welcome to the 2000's Sarah. Hope you enjoy your new extended Passat executive vehicle (Long wheel base version not the Passat Americans think of). An Escalade ESV is basically a loaded Suburban.
