The Skoda Octavia vRS/RS is an eagerly anticipated, family-orientated performance machine, primarily because it promises to do it all: be practical, good to look at and fast, courtesy of punchy VW-sourced two-liter petrol and diesel engines.
The older model was quite popular in Europe, and it followed much-loved first-gen hot Octavia, which happened to look quite cool in the factory yellow finish, with lime green brake calipers, and had more power than the comparable Golf GTI of the day.
Now, this third-gen model has some very big shoes to fill, which it does so in spades, if only in the interior space department. Being freshly released, there are not that many reviews available on the web, yet, so the one we’ve posted below, courtesy of UK’s CarBuyer is the first critical look at the car we have to show in video form.
Reviewer Mat Watson seems to have a very balanced first opinion of the 217hp (220PS) petrol model, which doesn’t end up corrupting the overall conclusion, as it has happened before… Check out the video below.
By Andrei Nedelea
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