Skoda Yeti - Top Gear "Review"

**sabloke** · 27-01-2011, 01:19 PM

The Beetle was destroyed in the name of "science", so why yell at poor TG presenters? Who knows, gravity might be the way of the future in car propulsion!!!

**Ryan_R** · 27-01-2011, 01:21 PM

If it shuts Hammond up re. the Porsche 911 then well worth it I say, but this is a VW forum, and there must be a few Beetle owners around here.

**Inego** · 27-01-2011, 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by K1W1

The same one Audi used on the TT when it was first introduced? I think I drove some Siroccos in the US in the 1980's that had the same shape "stick shift" knob as well.

I can't find a pick of the original TT knob, but Golfs right from the get-go had a dimpled black ball gear knob, just like a golf-ball

**K1W1** · 27-01-2011, 03:01 PM

A friend of my had one of the first TT's in Vic. It had the same design knob but it was a brushed alloy finish.
He took me out to lunch to show off his new car and parked facing into the sun. When we came out of the restaurant and we got in the car to drive off he nearly burnt is hand on the gear change. That's why I remember it.

Edit: I think it was something like this one so it wasn't quite the same as the Golf one, just similar.

**Inego** · 27-01-2011, 03:24 PM

That knob is the only one I could find for the TT as well (interesting someone listening to the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack

) No, I meant this one....

**K1W1** · 27-01-2011, 04:46 PM

I know which one you meant I just thought the TT one I saw was exactly the same only brushed alloy finish. Maybe it was or maybe it was just and alloy finish version of the picture I posted. Doesn't really matter I guess we have hijacked the thread enough.