RE: One-owner Skoda Favorit for sale

[daytonavrs]

Hmm all old Skodas bad bandwagon, jump on the hate / bullst train!

I don't think these are "bad" If I just wanted a runner cheap I wouldn't rule any half decent car out

If its aspiring after certain older Skodas.....pre VW......I'd be seriously tempted by a RS130....it looks great and seriously fun looking to drive too !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grKQr4OgmGI

The rapide isn't even bad, imagine it being souped up a fair bit ?
https://youtu.be/OzdFIN_QCj8?t=75

A modern take of a RS130 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxGrNZ0sbH8

[TyrannosauRoss Lex]

daytonavrs said:

Hmm all old Skodas bad bandwagon, jump on the hate / bullst train!

I don't think these are "bad" If I just wanted a runner cheap I wouldn't rule any half decent car out

If its aspiring after certain older Skodas.....pre VW......I'd be seriously tempted by a RS130....it looks great and seriously fun looking to drive too !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grKQr4OgmGI

The rapide isn't even bad, imagine it being souped up a fair bit ?
https://youtu.be/OzdFIN_QCj8?t=75

A modern take of a RS130 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxGrNZ0sbH8

Whilst it may not be "bad" it is listed at £4500, you can get much better for the cash, and even of its time it wasn't very good, much less so these days.

[daytonavrs]

TyrannosauRoss Lex said:

Whilst it may not be "bad" it is listed at £4500, you can get much better for the cash, and even of its time it wasn't very good, much less so these days.

I don't disagree particularly on this car, saying just addressing the "all skoda bad" BS the thread comes along with ( by those who probably know very little ).

[TonyMac]

waynecyclist said:

jerrytlr said:

If the condition is as good as it looks, I'd say worth every penny! Cracking colour too.

How much input did VW have on these, or are they pre-VW?

These were pre VW, the Felicia is VW based etc

Bonkers money, sorry but it will never sell for that

Felicias aren't really VW based either. They used the VW diesel engine and IIRC the 1.6 too, but the 1.3 was the old OHV 1289 Skoda lump (early 8v Fabias used the Skoda unit too in 1.4 form). Chassis wise the Felicia has a lot more in common with the Favorit than with VAG stuff, though VAG had a hand in the styling and trim there were a lot of odds and sods that looked like VAG parts but weren't. I had a Felicia for a little while and I'd like a Fav but not at that money.

[stevesingo]

As an apprentice mechanic at a Ford dealership in the '90s, one of these came in as a trade in for a Fiesta or some such. I was given the job of prepping for sale and on the test drive all I could think about was the fact it drove so much better than the Fiesta of the day. The ride was almost Peugeot like, the non-assisted steering lighter, quicker and more feel-some and the engine more eager.

[biggbn]

These were great wee cars, wonderful ride, peppy little engine. The old rear engined ones were only a 'joke' to badge obsessed brand snobs. Yes they were old fashioned but huge fun to drive, only problems we had was an appetite for head gaskets. Made had one with a rally prepped engine in it and it ran and ran with no problems. The Estelle won its class in the RAC rally for many years, good, solid cars. I'd love an s130r or the newer Rapid which the press always lauded as a paupers porsche.

[devnull]

Often thought the hated and piss taking of Skodas in the rear engines days were down to the fact they weren’t a “British” ford or Vauxhall and was just social prejudice. They were good cars.

[Eazy71]

FOUR THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED QUID??? Surely a wind up?

[Eazy71]

devnull said:

Often thought the hated and piss taking of Skodas in the rear engines days were down to the fact they weren’t a “British” ford or Vauxhall and was just social prejudice. They were good cars.

No they weren’t. They were terrible. My Dad’s mate bought one brand new. The rate that it broke down and bits fell off it was comical.

[biggbn]

Eazy71 said:

devnull said:

Often thought the hated and piss taking of Skodas in the rear engines days were down to the fact they weren’t a “British” ford or Vauxhall and was just social prejudice. They were good cars.

No they weren’t. They were terrible. My Dad’s mate bought one brand new. The rate that it broke down and bits fell off it was comical.

Yet I know many who ran them for many, many miles with zero issues. Apart from ours. Which had headgasket failure at 36k miles and every 400yds thereafter. I'd still have another though.

[Raydu]

Wow! That is some mark up to what they gave me for it . Two owners not one. Strong money for a favorit.

[sjabrown]

I can see the attraction in this. A good old basic solid reliably no frills vehicle. Okay £4500 seems a lot but in this weird world there's not much choice of anything at low prices. I reckon this could see a few years of good service, or be kept as is low mileage as an oddity.

[Brinyan]

Doesn’t seem over priced to me. £4.5k for something that appears in great condition, will probably keep going for many years to come, simple to maintain & is genuinely intriguing would be money well spent - IMO.
From an era when Skoda’s were interesting & individual, rather than just a dull clone of a mass produced model.
The Estelle & those that came before were even more interesting.

[anonymous-user]

devnull said:

Often thought the hated and piss taking of Skodas in the rear engines days were down to the fact they weren’t a “British” ford or Vauxhall and was just social prejudice. They were good cars.

I think that, especially when you consider the dog logs that people were chomping down on and imagining it was chocolate from Ford and the Leyland kennel of losers. They were all crap to drive, fell to bits, and were full of holes by 7 years old; at least the Skoda was cheap in the first place and didn't even pretend not to be rubbish.

[ettore]

daytonavrs said:

I don't disagree particularly on this car, saying just addressing the "all skoda bad" BS the thread comes along with ( by those who probably know very little ).

There isn’t really any of that in this thread?

[Southerner]

I 'inherited' one of these from my father years back when he'd had enough of it, it was a sort of turquoise blue colour on a J plate. F'king awful thing! No power steering, no go, looked, felt and performed like a tank. The S reg Felicia that he had later wasn't much better, come to think of it.

Nevertheless, nice to see a minty survivor living on!

[Jon_S_Rally]

These couldn't have been that bad. They ran a pretty successful rally series for them for a while, and people seemed to rate them quite highly for that at the time.

It's not a BMW obviously, but I think people are being a bit hard on it. There are plenty of Skoda enthusiasts out there, so I suspect someone will want it, even if the price has to be dropped a bit.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Manic Street Sleeper said:

Largechris said:

Manic Street Sleeper said:

Decimation is the "killing" of one in ten ... not nine in ten.

A popular misconception. Both are accepted usage in OED, Collins and MW.

It's not a popular misconception it is a shift in use of the word.

The author was referring to 200 left out of 2000 (therefore nine in ten) which is inverse of the original meaning.

But still a correct usage today. Language evolves, and if something is used wrongly often enough, it eventually becomes right. Decimation is now ok to use to describe almost total or even total destruction.

[The spinner of plates]

Objectively I’m pleased it exists.
But I’d never be interested in buying it, at any price really.

I’m sure someone will give it a home though.

[Manic Street Sleeper]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Manic Street Sleeper said:

Largechris said:

Manic Street Sleeper said:

Decimation is the "killing" of one in ten ... not nine in ten.

A popular misconception. Both are accepted usage in OED, Collins and MW.

It's not a popular misconception it is a shift in use of the word.

The author was referring to 200 left out of 2000 (therefore nine in ten) which is inverse of the original meaning.

But still a correct usage today. Language evolves, and if something is used wrongly often enough, it eventually becomes right. Decimation is now ok to use to describe almost total or even total destruction.

Yesyesyes, decimated fish stocks and all that but I believe the author was using decimate to illustrate that only 10 per cent were left.