RE: Skoda Octavia vRS - diesel, AWD confirmed

[mooseracer]

Augustus Windsock said:

Got to ask an honest question, why didn’t Porsche get arsey as the 911 2.7 RS surely appeared around 3 years after the first Ford RS (escort circa 1968/70) so did Ford throw their rattle out or come to an agreement.
Plus Audi use the nomenclature too
Not trying to provoke an argument, I’m genuinely ignorant as to the facts without lots of Wikipedia mining...

I've no idea. The Skoda 130rs was around from 1975 onwards - though not as a UK model - so maybe it was just Ford getting upset that an Octavia would tread on their toes whereas Porsche and Audi less so?

[tim-jxv5n]

loskie said:

ash73 said:

Nothing screams tight git more than these.

What utter tripe you speak. What you do mean is "excuse my badge snobbery".

He's rate though

[Court_S]

tim-jxv5n said:

loskie said:

ash73 said:

Nothing screams tight git more than these.

What utter tripe you speak. What you do mean is "excuse my badge snobbery".

He's rate though

Not really. They’re not exactly cheap these days.

I had no end of such pisstaking about mine, but it was a bloody good car if a bit dull.

[tim-jxv5n]

Court_S said:

tim-jxv5n said:

loskie said:

ash73 said:

Nothing screams tight git more than these.

What utter tripe you speak. What you do mean is "excuse my badge snobbery".

He's rate though

Not really. They’re not exactly cheap these days.

I had no end of such pisstaking about mine, but it was a bloody good car if a bit dull.

I know they're good cars but uk folk cant get past the image, dont think they'll ever shake it to be fair

[Court_S]

tim-jxv5n said:

Court_S said:

tim-jxv5n said:

loskie said:

ash73 said:

Nothing screams tight git more than these.

What utter tripe you speak. What you do mean is "excuse my badge snobbery".

He's rate though

Not really. They’re not exactly cheap these days.

I had no end of such pisstaking about mine, but it was a bloody good car if a bit dull.

I know they're good cars but uk folk cant get past the image, dont think they'll ever shake it to be fair

We do love a badge in the UK.

People genuinely couldn’t work out why I chose my vRS on the company car scheme over a poverty spec 118d SE!

The worst offender for taking the piss paid an extra £70 a month in contributions for an A3 TDI with the sane engine as the a Golf GTD for the badge despite the worse spec.

[aelord]

Awful rear, aping Volvo. All in all rather ho-hum and one to pigeonhole alongside Vauxhall and SEAT.

[dgswk]

Court_S said:

We do love a badge in the UK.

People genuinely couldn’t work out why I chose my vRS on the company car scheme over a poverty spec 118d SE!

The worst offender for taking the piss paid an extra £70 a month in contributions for an A3 TDI with the sane engine as the a Golf GTD for the badge despite the worse spec.

They are just dull, loads of them on the road, badge irrelevant. Good enough car though, not really very inspiring with or without ‘badge’.

[OddCat]

Summit_Detailing said:

Just hope the ride is better than what I endured with my old 2015 VRS - the only reason I changed out of it!

Eh? Is this a young person thing?

[apc321]

Lovely estate car.

Horrible wheels.

[Nickbrapp]

Court_S said:

We do love a badge in the UK.

People genuinely couldn’t work out why I chose my vRS on the company car scheme over a poverty spec 118d SE!

The worst offender for taking the piss paid an extra £70 a month in contributions for an A3 TDI with the sane engine as the a Golf GTD for the badge despite the worse spec.

That’s not actually true, I’m on the hunt for a new car, so I specified a Leon, a golf, and an A3 all to the same spec

they all came out at £31k. The Leon is cheapest but you have to add options to get it to the same spec as a A3, and when you add the options to a golf it then becomes more expensive than a A3

All based on the 1.5TSI automatic.

All where with metallic paint, LED headlights (optional on the golf) and all based on the Sporty looking trim.

[Export56]

As about about appealing as cold porridge, why do they bother. Skoda are pretty dull workhorse cars, no idea why they do an RS version.

[Gluggy]

Not sure, I'm a big fan of estates but this one seems a bit "try hard" or "tick boxes", the actual shape is ok but the huge plastic grille and fake exhausts just look out of place - for something top of the range it looks a bit cheap, kinda like all the base spec (performance wise) models that are tarted up in an attempted to look like the real McCoy.

[Mercury00]

ash73 said:

Nothing screams tight git more than these.

They're about £30k aren't they? I definitely couldn't afford one.

[MadDog1962]

Octavia's are great cars, and the higher performance models pretty wonderful.

The latest versions appear to offer only minor tweaks to a winning formula.

[J4CKO]

ash73 said:

Nothing screams tight git more than these.

Hmm, checks garage, you still got the sixteen year old Jag ?

[stevemcs]

Not sure about the wheels, the rear or the front, for that money I’d take a focus st.

[Augustus Windsock]

Nickbrapp said:

That’s not actually true, I’m on the hunt for a new car, so I specified a Leon, a golf, and an A3 all to the same spec

they all came out at £31k. The Leon is cheapest but you have to add options to get it to the same spec as a A3, and when you add the options to a golf it then becomes more expensive than a A3

All based on the 1.5TSI automatic.

All where with metallic paint, LED headlights (optional on the golf) and all based on the Sporty looking trim.

Is that quite true of the Leon though, I thought when I bought mine the only things you could choose were the model (including differing engines and gearboxes) and the colour, no options as such (ie if you had the FR you got sports seats, privacy glass, etc which weren’t available say on the SE?
I get what you’re saying though but I’m surprised they all work out the same
Got to to say I’m happy with my Octavia but accept that the plastics are hard to the touch and the flourishes you mighty find in the Audi equivalent are missing (as is the availability of quite a few options) but I’m
Happy with the car for what it is.
I guess if I had the funds then I may have bought something a little better / faster / bigger but in reality it covers all of my needs 95% of the time.

[Terminator X]

J4CKO said:

ash73 said:

Nothing screams tight git more than these.

Hmm, checks garage, you still got the sixteen year old Jag ?

Oh dear, garage fail

TX.

[triathlonstu]

ash73 said:

Nothing screams tight git more than these.

I think driving a 12 year old smart car might take it to the wire.

[Deep Thought]

And when BMW do a grille that big they're monsters