Skoda Octavia vRS CR in Candy White

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Some of you would of already seen this as another member here must of seen it on Photobucket and posted images already.

Got it almost a year ago today. Covered 30k and its been faultless so far.

In the cabin its a similar size to the A3 and A4's that I have driven but the boot is cavernous. 60 odd litres bigger than the A8 and 5 Series.

Its quick and quiet, although not as quiet as a BMW soot chucker.

The only mods so far are colour coded grill, LED replacement interior lights and recently gloss black wing mirrors. Mods to come: Black Grill Surround, Parking Sensors and maybe a remap.

Some pics:

chrome grill

white grill

wonderfull snow foam

black mirrors


Interior:



And my outgoing A3 Sportback Sport 170 PD with my new vRS:

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James_N said:

Thats lovely Always liked the vRS.

Thank you, I liked the old one but the SWMBO had a bit of badge snobbery then so got the Audi, this time round the fact it was bigger and was £4k cheaper swayed it a bit. What other soot chucking saloon/hatches are available at £16.7k? not many good ones i can tell you.

Moley RUFC said:

Brothers! Love the grill too but then I would.....

Amen



recognised you from the recent delivery and grill over at BRISKODA

al1991 said:

There's a lot of Skodas appearing on these pages recently.
Got to say, I'm enjoying them all.
I'd love a Fabia VRS.

The new Furby vRS looks great and its a cracking engine and gearbox despite some issues with DSG. Driven a Golf 1.4 TSI with dsg - amazing. the sound of the supercharger is great.

DaveL86 said:

I love the new vRS , very nice and love the grill mods people are doing although not sold on the black mirrors with white.

How are you finding the CR vs the PD?, I drove a 2.0 PD140 a while back and felt it lacked the torque my 1.9 PD130 has, it drove a bit more like a petrol in terms of usable rev range though.

The CR is much better than the PD - its marginally not as punchy as the PD but fuel economy is so much, much better now. 37mpg vs 55mpg. The power is more linear than the PD which seems to run out of steam very quickly. Its a lot quieter as well, which never bothered me before as music was always on. Like the PD first and second will wheelspin in wet and dry so there's aplenty of torques.

Disco You said:

I like it and I'll be interested to see how it looks with a black grille surround.

The seats I'm not sold on though, there are too many different colours and materials making them a bit busy.

I was initially dubious of the seats as well, but they are great, mesh near the sweaty bits, leather on the sides and alcantara at the front of the base and at the shoulders. Seems to the best of all worlds especially when wearing shorts during the 3 days we have blistering sunshine.

phillyctr said:

looks lovely in white,black grill would make it more aggressive for sure,still looks the dogs with the white thou.

Cheers, just waiting for some dryer weather to get the grille surround done (again).

mcelliott said:

That's a very good looking car you have there bud.

Cheers - will check out yours in a bit.

Edited by prolfe on Friday 14th January 18:34

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Old Gregg said:

The white grille surround makes a heck of a difference, it looks loads better.

Nice car, OP.

Thank you. it does get a fair few looks when out and about, and doing 70 on the motorway is fun too, people wrongly assume plod.

Shaw Tarse said:

Old Gregg said:

The white grille surround makes a heck of a difference, it looks loads better.

Nice car, OP.

Howsabout Blue
I'd still like to see it in black.

as soon as its black i'll get a couple of photies up.

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Aphex said:

I saw a suspiciously similar vrs on my way home from bluewater on wednesday, they do look much better for the colour coding

eek

why suspiciously?

what were you in and what time was it?

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Aphex said:

Well its the first i'd seen on the road and had the same colour coded grill.

Crikey I cant remember the time.. possibly half 4, 5 ish?

I was in a completely filthy black mk3 golf gti, there was a guy and his family (iirc) in the skoda and the plate started a8. I took note as I knew it would be a long shot but I thought it could be this one

That and it seems I have a liking for stalking readers cars.. haha

Nah not me, although I did see a black golf, looked like it was lowered, not 100% sure if it was a MKII or MKIII though

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Fitted some cheapy aftermarket parking sensors today, they work well and were a doddle to fit.