ST in Francis Seat Leicester

[lard-ajc]

Well, what a dissapointment. Having read the reviews online and comments here I thought that the Exeo ST would be a good replacement for my Octavia estate (old version)

I admit that I didn't get to drive it (only arrived at the dealer the previous day) so it was just a sit-in and look around.

The one thing that was better than I expected was the front end - in real life it actually looks pretty good. But apart from that the looks are nothing to write home about - back end looks far better in the photos.

The model they had was the Sport ST which, while having ver good seats, was a mass of grey plastic (with some shiny black trim), buttons were very clunky and the steering wheel was a nasty cheap plastic job (was expecting leather like on our Leon Sport). I was also expecting a cavernous boot but (without measurements) it seems smaller than my mark 1 octavia.

It would be interesting to take it for a drive to see if that makes up for some of the short-comings but at the moment the pre-facelift octavia estate is a far nicer car to be in and will be where I spend my money in the next year or so when it comes to retiring the old one.

Would be interesting to see what other people's thoughts are about this.

 

[Leigh15]

The A4 was always a small estate - what were you expecting?

In terms of the interior - the whole interior is lifted straight from the old A4 convertible, so I'm surprised you were unhappy with the quality - my A3 interior is certainly a lot better quality than standard SEAT fair.

Interestingly, according to SEAT all models SE and above should have a leather steering wheel - so it seems odd that yours didn't

I've not seen a ST in the flesh yet, but I had a good poke around a saloon Sport in a dealership a little while back and was impressed with it - just about everything in it was standard Audi equipment

 

[canonman]

Yes the SE comes with leather steering wheel