According to WhatCar:

Skoda launches Octavia Greenline

Monday, June 15, 2009

Uses 1.6-litre diesel engine

CO2 emissions of 114g/km

Skoda's new Octavia Greenline is available to order now.

Greenline is Skoda's name for its environmentally friendly models and the Octavia Greenline uses a new common-rail 1.6-litre diesel engine that's more efficient than the standard car's 1.9-litre diesel unit.

CO2 emissions for the Greenline are 114g/km, whereas the 1.9 TDI emits 130g/km. Average fuel consumption is 64.2mpg, compared with 57.6mpg for the 1.9 TDI.

The Octavia Greenline is priced at £16,155.

It's not shown on the Skoda website yet, and I haven't been able to find out details of its performance or trim specs.

CJJE

How utterly stupid. It's just 5g/km and 1.4mpg better than the standard 1.6CR! Same road tax and still 4g/km too high to get 100% corporation tax write-down.

If the figures that have been published for the standard 1.6CR and the Greenline are correct, anyone who buys a Greenline Octavia is an idiot.

Edited 16 June, 200917 yr by wega3k

Those 5g of CO2 reduce the company ar tax a bit and if it is anything like the Golf Bluemotion it will be very economical

My son's did 70+ mpg on the motorway at 75mph!

If it's really slow and horrible to drive I'd rather pay the fuel and the tax.

Having put up with an ECO car (corsa) for a couple of years I will say that I will definitely avoid any car running on skinny ECO tyres from now on. I'm also not keen on lowered suspension.

These ECO variants are also overpriced c/w to a better specd car (with the same engine!).

Having put up with an ECO car (corsa) for a couple of years I will say that I will definitely avoid any car running on skinny ECO tyres from now on. I'm also not keen on lowered suspension.

These ECO variants are also overpriced c/w to a better specd car (with the same engine!).

Whilst the Michelin Energy tyres fitted to my Superb are not skinny, they are particularly hard wearing (22k miles- front 5mm and rear 6mm) and I'm regularly getting 54-55mpg (actual, not MFC reading) on mainly motorway/A-road driving.

The Energy tyres fittted to my Superb have extra load sidewalls which has resulted in the car cornering with the same level of enthusiasm as my Octy II. Only once have the tyres squealed, and that was under provocation!

At the current rate of wear I estimate the front tyres should easily pass 30k miles, which is impressive for a large front wheel drive car. The rears should be good for at least 50k miles.

Its all a complete load of hogwash. "Greenline" or "ECO" vehicles are utter nonsense and awful to drive. Skinny tyres are in some respects a safety issue with considerably reduced grip - 30K out of a set eh? No such thing as a free lunch in my book. Longer gearing means they are woeful to use in town and all for what? A tiny reduction in company car tax which would be wiped out by up-speccing the stereo!

Manufacturers need to focus their resporces on reducing weight - a major contributor to emissions, improving visibility rather than pandering to a flawed NCAP testing regime which actually contributes to accients due to the inability of a driver to actually see properly out of a vehicle - I nearly had a bike the other day pulling out of a junction because of the bloody A pillar thickness. BMW are going the right way with stop-start and I wonder why VW group are leaving it so long to introduce this simple yet blindingly effective means of improving economy and reducing CO2. Basically Greenline is a pathetic and cheap attempt at producing the token "green" car for the range.

It does wind me up when a major manufacturer thinks it can get away with something like this.