Nice. Yes, I love them, nearly always have except for the dark times. Not sure I would have been able to swap yours for an Octavia either.
It was a 'weekend car' essentially, as we also had a (truly) horrendous Ford C-Max too
The XKR wasn't too bad to insure on a limited mileage policy (circa £350 FC, I think?)
I'd even seen 30MPG from it, on a long run, to Cardiff!!
Colleague at work has just sold his 16 year old Octavia 1.9 diesel estate, 230k miles and still going well. Still on the original exhaust and clutch although he did say most of its life was spent on major roads/motorways. The guy he's sold it to (another colleage) has sent him a photo of the fuel consumption he achieved last week...72mpg, although that was driving steady.
I'd have brought it myself given half the chance.
Taken care of, they must be a bloomin good car.
Mechanical fuel pump at that age???
I've seen more;
This average MPG was 2014, according to the date
A trip down M1, to East Midlands Airport to pick SWMBO up
A couple of weeks ago, we went to Birmingham
I filled up/brimmed at closest retailer to the house
It showed the hypothetical range as 545 miles
I drove to Birmingham, into Edgbaston, to where we were stopping (the Conference Centre Hotel, at the University)
By this time, it was showing about 120miles, with a little diversion en-route, yet the hypothetical mileage was now 670 miles
On a similar vein, regarding high mileages, I'm reminded of a work-collegue has a half-share in a taxi (black & whites), with his brother
He used to have a Astra 3 estate 1.7TD (Isuzu engine?; so he told me)
Due to licencing restrictions (maybe Wakefield Council, or nationwide, I don't know), he had to sell it at 5 years old (or similar)
They'd put over 350,000miles on it!!!
On original engine & 'box (regular oil changes @ 10,000 miles)