Dealer just phoned me to say they have the 1st of the facelifted cars in this morning, going down to see it later. I thought these were not out till next Jan :confused:, Anyone know when they are being launched in the UK?

Well just been to see it and must say it is far better in the flesh than I expected from the photo's .

Not sure about a few aspects of it tho, the new rear lights somehow dont look quite as good and the new lower case name badging on the boot :confused:. I may get used to them but for now feel I liked the older rear end more in this respect:eek:. However the new rear bumper without the rubbing strips is a great improvment .

I do think the changes inside are for the better also , and the dials now light up white so looking forward to seeing the car at night for the 1st time

Seen one in my local dealer in Donegal,Glad now they are not facelifting the vRS till later,

You Mean To Say You Went To See The First Facelift Octavia In Great Britain And Ireland In The Flesh A Potentially Life Changing Car For All Us Briskodians And You Never Took A Camera Shame On You. :thumbdwn: :rofl:

Craig.......

:wrthless:

Reason For Edit -: Bad Geography. (SORRY CHAPS)

Edited 2 December, 200817 yr by SoulRider

Believe it or not, I dont own a camera , did try take some pix with my phone but now cant get them to send to the pc :thumbdwn:, and I doubt they would be very good anyway :eek:

Not great quality but this is it

A few more

You Mean To Say You Went To See The First Facelift Octavia In The UK In The Flesh A Potentially Life Changing Car For All Us Briskodians And You Never Took A Camera Shame On You. :thumbdwn: :rofl:

Craig.......

:wrthless:

Absolutely PMSL at this post. Brilliant

Wonder if they will be face lifting the VRS too hmmm ???

Thems Nice Pics For A Phone Bryan Well Done And Congratulations At Being The First.

Craig.......

that mean there will be an octavia mk3 thread or will this join the mk2 threads? very nice cant wait to see the vrs version, and when they give test drives

Wonder if they will be face lifting the VRS too hmmm ???

I'm sure they will eventually - but if its going to be anything like the job they'll do on the Scout then I'm definately not interested :thumbdwn:.....

:slant: :rubchin: :eyepop: :Yikes: :slant: :zombie: :gay: :eek: :( :confused:

that mean there will be an octavia mk3 thread or will this join the mk2 threads?

This is not Octavia MK3. It's Octavia MK2 facelifted!

You Mean To Say You Went To See The First Facelift Octavia In The UK In The Flesh A Potentially Life Changing Car For All Us Briskodians And You Never Took A Camera Shame On You. :thumbdwn: :rofl:

Craig.......

:wrthless:

lol as they say 'you can't get the staff!!' :rofl::rofl::rofl:

Since when was southern Ireland in the UK?

Nice pictures Bryan.

Since when was southern Ireland in the UK?

Nice pictures Bryan.

Soulrider - I think you upset the Cork crew, thats you finished

Btw I had white dials on an Astra sport, they look nice but you soon will get sick of them, too bright (although in it the whole dial itself was white)

Btw I had white dials on an Astra sport, they look nice but you soon will get sick of them, too bright (although in it the whole dial itself was white)

I had white dials on a Laguna and loved them

I ordered 2 facelift cars initially and one of them a SE DSG Hatch has been built and is at the port in Emden and the other a Arctic Green Elegance Estate TDi is due to be built next week.

Not sure how those guys have got them so quickly! Luck of the draw I guess.

Not sure how those guys have got them so quickly! Luck of the draw I guess.

IIRC some cars come into Ireland through Cork, so that might explain the speed.

Nice pics thanks for posting.Looks good so far:thumbup:

You've got to ask why they bothered. The changes they have made are not to my liking.

Gets the :thumbdwn: from me.

From those pics I think it looks like an improvement. Need to see it in the flesh I think.

Actually I'd like to see the two side by side.

from the 1st pix I saw of the car it was a big :thumbdwn: from me, but seeing it in the flesh, and parked next to the old style car, other than a few exceptions it is a big now

This is not Octavia MK3. It's Octavia MK2 facelifted!

I've been calling it the Octy 2.5 (mainly to annoy the corpoarate spin doctors who will be busy pretending that it is all new and improved and vastly better than the old one