The fast side of practicality

摘要

Skoda's Octavia estate promised pace with real-world usability. And over 24,000 miles, it delivered OBVIOUSLYHE MEANT itto apply to wallpaper and chairs, but William Morris's dictum that you should "have nothing in your house that is not beautiful or useful" applies equally to the garage. I'm not sure I could have ever described the Skoda Octavia as beautiful - it's not a bad-looking car, in its own way - but it has been immensely useful. If that sounds like damning with faint praise, it isn't. This car has been a life-saver. I got married in August. And instead of doing it the easy way -paying someone else to sort it all out for us - we decided to do it all ourselves. It took months to turn our venue, a commercial garden nursery, into the kind of place we'd remember for the rest of our lives. And the Octavia estate played a big part in that transformation.