Whoa Black Yeti Bam-a-lam

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SWH said:

Great little car..

Mrs SWH regularly saw over 60mpg in it (yes the 1.6D Greenline), unfortunately she also wrote it off(!)

We now have two more seats in a Touran... which is functional, and doesn't rank highly on the excitement scale at all; would happily have another Yeti, pre-facelift, probably the 2.0 diesel with the DSG box in fact.

I liked the DSG one I borrowed and I would consider one if I buy another. Mrs SWHs looks nice in white. The two things that I dislike about mine being black are keeping it clean and that the colour hides some of the detail of the design like the black front and rear pillars.

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ecopia said:

Whats the boot like in these any chance of a pic? Would it suit a family 2year old and a 9 month old set up?

I'll get some photos for you.

Been working the Yeti hard this weekend.

Untitled by Nicholas Horne, on Flickr

Untitled by Nicholas Horne, on Flickr

Untitled by Nicholas Horne, on Flickr

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Found a nice local lane to have a potter down on the way from work today.

Untitled by Nicholas Horne, on Flickr

Untitled by Nicholas Horne, on Flickr

Untitled by Nicholas Horne, on Flickr

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Found a useful resource of local greenlanes while scoffing my dinner and decided as one was within 2 miles of where I live it would be rude not to have a nosey and enjoy a beautiful sunset.

Untitled by Nicholas Horne, on Flickr

Untitled by Nicholas Horne, on Flickr

Untitled by Nicholas Horne, on Flickr

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LouD86 said:

Didn't realise you were so local Nick. Loving the car, and nice to see a pic of the other Nick (Skuzzle), he seems to be enjoying running that MX5 doesn't he

That he does, I'm joining him as one of the team of drivers for the Race of Remembrance in november. Should be interesting as we're building a flat bottomed, turbo charged MK2 for it.

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Quite a bit of love of the old Yeti on here, surprising. I know EVO rated them but didn't think many actual petrolheads would actually buy one.

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Been on holiday to Dorset and got one snap of the Yeti, did;t use it much as we were drinking and eating a lot!

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On our return to sunny Hampshire I went out and tried another local greenlane.

Untitled by Nicholas Horne, on Flickr

Untitled by Nicholas Horne, on Flickr

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Been out and done some more this afternoon. I think I have an addiction. ha ha.

by Nicholas Horne, on Flickr

by Nicholas Horne, on Flickr

by Nicholas Horne, on Flickr

A quick bit of video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTKo7hGopr8

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Untitled by Nicholas Horne, on Flickr

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I think 1.2 and 1.4 are the only petrols available in the UK. Peeps on the Yeti owners club seem very happy with the small petrols though, I think the DSG masks it's shirt comings which would be glaringly obvious with a manual box.

I like the interoir but it's not up there with a MQB platform Audi or VW, but neither is the price. My one issue with it is that the leather seats seem to be giving me chronic lower back pain no matter what position I set them in. I'm looking at Physio sessions to see if it's jus highlighted an underlying problem but if it is the car my Yeti ownership could prove short and costly.

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The Yeti left the Horne clan on Saturday after 17 months and 30,000 miles. It was a good car in many ways but in the end I just couldn't love it. It's been replaced with something far more sensible for doing 25,000 miles a year. A MK3 MX5.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...