Last week I collected my new car:

So far, so good. It's quite red (the only non-white, free colour), which I did fear slightly but I actually haven't noticed too much. It seems pretty quick, both accelerating (and I haven't even tried very hard yet as the manual tells me I must be patient!) and cruising happily at 70 on the motorway.

The leg room in the back is slightly less than the Prius but the boot space is much more and overall the Fabia is a few centimetres shorter. I've found a comfortable driving position much faster than I did with the Prius, although I am still tweaking it a little.

The only downside I've found so far is that there is a noticeable delay between pressing the accelerator and the gear engaging. This is only when initially pressing the accelerator at low speeds or from stationary. When returning to the accelerator at higher speeds or just pressing harder it's very responsive.

I've found that pressing harder, faster seems to get things going sooner. Although you do then have to ease off again quite quickly so as to avoid going nowhere due to wheel spin instead of going nowhere due to lack of engaged drive. I'm still working on it, but hopefully I'll get the balance right soon!