Is current Ocatvia hatch or estate rather than saloon or estate?

My daughter and her hubby have estate but thought choice when they bought was saloon.

I'm pretty sure the Octavia has never been available as a saloon, at least not in the UK. Current shape does look like a saloon though.

It was inevitable that it would grow in size though, partly because that is the overall trend these days, but also because the Scala is a much more spacious car than its (at least theoretical) predecessor, the Rapid. This also implies that the next Superb will be bigger again to put some distance between it and the new Octavia.

bromptonaut, always hatchback and estate, there's never been a saloon.

Indeed it is, but it looks like a saloon, because the boot is large, long and has a shallow rear windscreen. That's one of its (and the smaller Rapid) greatest strengths - decent looks of a saloon at the rear, big boot, decent hatch opening, unlike my Mazda3 saloon, which has a small boot opening and cannot fit large boxes through the aperture.