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Just a quick hello, after being away from the Skoda fold for nearly 3 years, it's so good to be back behind my 6th Skoda overall and 5th Octavia. It's not new, it's a 2012 elegance spec 1.6TDI, but having no longer deal with the guzzling Mercedes C200K it's night and day in terms of fuel economy and space. There's 200K miles on her, but it's got a spanking new NCT, interior looks as good as factory fresh and the previous owner looked after her for 9 years.

Your right, I was using the images as a place holder as the 3rd car I'm considering is nearly the exact same other than engine size, but waiting on pictures of it. I accept bias, I've had an RS TDI and loved the effortless torque from its engine, even my current 20-25MPG 200 Kompressor does bring a smile when the slush box auto decides to engage. Haven't heard about Pedal Box, I must give a Google.

So I've been away from the Skoda fold for the last 18 months, and am hopefully looking at 3 potential options on a Superb. 1 is an Ambition spec car, I believe the UK SE equivalent, and 2 are in Style spec (SE L). The Ambition and one of the Style spec cars come with the 1.6TDI 120PS engine and the other comes with the 2.0TDI 190PS engine. I personally feel the 1.6 would struggle considering the size of the Superb Prices are pretty much the same on the cars ~ €15,000. The only real difference is 10k miles, they all are at the 100k mile mark and 6 month gap between the registrations. Other than that they are 1 owner cars with full service history's. The heart is leading towards option one in the images, which has the 2.0TDI but out of the 3 attached which would be best?

Look at the background photo of this. I believe that is without doubt the new Superb estate I also believe the white estate beside it is also the new Passat estate.

Delighted for ya Shevlock after what probably felt like such a long wait. Enjoy all the miles ahead in her 👍

Quick tip, go to Menu - Settings - Voice Control and you can turn off the hot word for Laura so she doesn't annoy you.

The later build cars seem to be better built. I know my car is not a UK spec, it's Irish with the Columbus D head unit and is set to imperial units. ACC sees the KPH speed signs and converts and slows to the correct speed in mph on the virtual cockpit. The in built sat nav shows the distance in miles but I prefer using Google Maps/Android Auto which thankfully show directions in the virtual cockpit which can be seen in the attached picture. I do feel sorry for the many left frustrated here and hope Skoda UK will resolve such issues.

Well she's finally plated and my god what a leap it is from my MK 3 RS in terms of technology, which touch wood has been absolutely flawless even though it's only day one of ownership. The ambient lighting, kessy, wireless Android Auto, digital cockpit, and the voodoo that is ACC are things I could never do without now in a car.

So the car came in to Corbett's, just needs to be prepped and registered and we will be driving it on Friday 😁😁

Nice result there @Aarond 👌 and sorry for the slightly further wait @Shelvock hopefully it'll be on the next ship 🙏

Looks like our cars are off the coast of Cornwall on the Parana at the moment. Dealer rang me just there, should be in Waterford tomorrow or Saturday and will be ready for collection middle of next week 😁

Ah sorry man it's the Style version I've gone for this time round, comfort has now over taken speed 😂 I think it'd be the SE-L spec equivalent in the UK but we get the reverse camera, scrolling rear indicators and 18" wheels as standard but no option of electric boot, rear heated seats or matrix LED lighting. Certainly exciting though I'll be checking marine finder religiously once I get word on shipping.

@Aarond It's a bit of a list, it would've been more but sadly Irish VRT being what it is means no sunroof or Canton for Irish spec cars.

So just a quick update on my original post, dealer rang me today. He could have the car in the dealership by next weekend depending on how full the ferry is to Dublin port. He will contact me next week to confirm for definite but having the car in a little over 10 weeks from initial order and all the optional extras is one hell of a result.

The Accord had a drag cd of 0.30 this generation Octavia is at 0.25, so it cuts through the air much cleaner. The downside to this is when you open the window especially rear ones the whole airflow is completely disrupted, it has a term the Helmholtz resonance. Much like blowing over a bottle top the air resonates at a high frequency, in a car it's more a thump due to the volume of air being displaced inside the vehicle.