After enduring a long hot summers weekend without aircon and an a working drivers window - the Golf TDi sealed its fate. Out we went looking for a new car and happened to stumble across a car that I didn't even know existed. From the outside it looked quite sporty with its big alloys, low profile tyres, big bumpers and spoiler. The VRS badge made me immediately think its was powered by the 1.8 petrol used across the VW GTi range, I was quite wrong. It's actually powered by the same diesel unit most commonly found in the GT TDi mk3 golfs, kicking out 130BHP and a shed load of twist.

After a brief test drive I was sold. It pulled like a train and returned amazing economy when hypermiling. It combined all of requirements for my perfect car: efficiency, performance and comfort.

Here it is

So far its been returning low 60 MPG but not only I am getting used to it I am also finding it hard now to put my boot down. I will report back in a few more weeks on how the little Skoda performs with some hard core Hypermiling.