New member here. Considering a face lifted combi. Can confirm the facelifted vehicle sounds significantly better than the old one and the sound actuator is gone. I wondered whether the pops in sport mode on the overrun might have been synthetic because I thought you couldn’t get stock cars anymore with that because of particulate filters etc.. turns out you can. I know the EA888 is seen as a good engine but not a very sonorous one but I have test driven a bunch of them in different vehicles and the new Škoda sounds by far the best to me ears.