My partner's new 77tsi red Fabia wagon manual has arrived.

We love it.

It has the new badges, the first one our dealer had seen. New Skoda badge has silver winged arrow instead of green, and Skoda name is now in plain capital leters on the boot, instead of on the round Skoda badge. A couple of other minor changes too - extra chrome around gear lever knob and boot, I forget what else. The dealer is John at Peninsula Skoda in Frankston, a long way from home (we drove past 3 other Skoda dealers to buy from there) but he was great to deal with. He seems genuinely a Skoda enthusiast.

John mentioned that the day our car arrived, a new Superb also arrived and it was a bit funny that the little Fabi had the new badges but a new Superb built the same time has the old green badges.

Our car has manual trans, climate control, reverse beeper & display on radio screen, privacy glass, sill scuff plates, floor mats and BRIGHT red paint. It also has hill start assist (holds handbrake on a second so you don't have to do handbrake starts) which isn't mentioned in the brochures anywhere. It's a wee ripper.