RE: Skoda Octavia vRS - diesel, AWD confirmed

[ahenners]

ash73 said:

Nothing screams tight git more than these.

Can't speak for other Octavia VRS owners... But I've had one for 4 years and I'm a proper tight git

[ToothbrushMan]

Wills2 said:

daytonavrs said:

Yes very unimaginative isn't it.....
"Yes Herr Diess, we are keeping the numbers static so as not to upset anyone at VW"
Then idiots read this sort of crap off the internet treating it as "facts".

In reality 220hp to 230 then 245hp and not even 0.1s difference on the 0-60? VW Bull

Stage 1 basic S/W tuning only no other mods mine did a confirmed 13.7 quarter mile ( have paperwork and some videos of a few runs) and that was my first time as a novice first drag run I ever did.
That included one were I slowly came off the line because I was getting sick of judder, the 2009 335D had launched like a mad one..... but I'd caught and passed it by the lights. They are meant to be 5.5s 0-60 at that year apparently.

Not sure what the 60 was to that but puts in the same category as Elise111R, 2007 550i M sport etc for the quarter?
The elise is 5.1, so is the 550i, if thats with stage 1 mapping, it reasons that the standard now improved tuning car got to be a fair bit better than 6.7 if its gone from 220 to now 245 ?

Yeah, ignore the bull artificial stats from VW regarding Skoda, be good if something just "corrected" this by now.

The fan boy is strong in this one, digging back 13 years to try and twist a comparison with a 550i for a 4 pot Skoda? Really? Nice touch on shoe horning an Elise 111R in as well...FFS.

I wish I had £1 for every fool in a vRS that tried to show me how fast his car is over the years...I see one on the road and think "tool" onboard, M cars are cat nip to them.

Edited by Wills2 on Sunday 5th July 00:25

id like to say this ones been watching too many guy ritchie movies....

[daytonavrs]

Try looking up information for once in a while Wills rather than smoking out your own ahole, you might learn something.

Edited by daytonavrs on Tuesday 7th July 21:53

[jbcalvin]

Disappointed that the TSI isn't being offered with AWD. Why diesel only? Surely as it's based on the Golf platform they could have used the R drivetrain? Or are VW scared that people would buy the Skoda instead..... petrol and 4WD would have pretty much assured my order.....

[daytonavrs]

Wills2 said:

The fan boy is strong in this one, digging back 13 years to try and twist a comparison with a 550i for a 4 pot Skoda? Really? Nice touch on shoe horning an Elise 111R in as well...FFS.

I wish I had £1 for every fool in a vRS that tried to show me how fast his car is over the years...I see one on the road and think "tool" onboard, M cars are cat nip to them.

Edited by Wills2 on Sunday 5th July 00:25

Wow, you posturing like you have an M5 and turns out its a diesel M "Sport". Impressive.

[Court_S]

Nickbrapp said:

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.

It was the case a few years ago; the Golf GTD would had things like adaptive cruise standard, not on the A3 he had. The A3 was the 184bhp diesel, S Libe and definitely had less stuff on it than the GTD and cost him more in contributions for a ‘posher’ company car. The Golf GTD matched his grade, so other than BIK was no extra cost, the Audi was above so he contributed £70 per month or £3,360 over the four years of our company leases for the badge. The VW was deemed the lesser car despite using the same chassis, same engine and missing stuff like adaptive cruise. This was for a company car....nuts.