Had our yeti nearly a year now. It’s great. Dealers (in the north east anyway) are shocking though – technically inept and incompetent. Not helped by the fact skoda uk outsource their customer service to serco or crapita, I can’t remember which.
The boot is a bit small, but you can make it bigger by sliding the back seats forward. The centre seat doesn’t slide, but you can easily remove it. You can also remove the others.
For bike carrying I’d really recommend speccing a tow bar and using something like an atera or thule rack. Yes you can get bikes inside, but a towbar rack is much easier. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES allow the dealer to suggest an aftermarket tow bar. There are a myriad of threads on briskoda about problems with coding, ecu failure (mine) and general shoddiness of work. Avoid avoid avoid.
Economy wise, I get about 40mpg from the 170tdi. Not great, but not bad for 1500kg 4×4 driven by a moron. For some bizarre reason our thule roof box makes the thing more economical on a run – we regularly saw 45 on our trip to Austria this year, almost matching my dad’s superb.
Oh and it’s fast. Indecently fast for what it is. And handles really well. The get up and go from the 4motion system is astonishing. 😀