Been on hols for a few weeks and returned today to be told car is ready to collect - whoop whoop!!

Congratulations.

Do you mind posting some pictures of the interior, you'll probably be the first person on here to have the new black/red interior option. Mine is on order but not due till March, so would be great to see some real life pictues of it in the flesh!

Dougall

Yes, that interior combo will be good to see

Thats what I have ordered can't wait to see it for real

just to through a spanner in the works, the 2.0 TSI used in some of the newer Audis is slightly different! they have Variable Valve Timing, (kinda like Vtec) giving them more Torque than ours!

Thats what I have ordered can't wait to see it for real

Same as me, ordered thinking it should look good but never seen it in the flesh.

fingers crossed for some pics

Just home with it and it's dark and raining :( so pics will be done tomorrow. But initial feelings YAY!!!!

Just home with it and it's dark and raining :( so pics will be done tomorrow. But initial feelings YAY!!!!

Cool..........can't wait!

OK, some pics as promised

Edited 21 January, 201214 yr by firstborn

Very, very nice. Unobtrusive, classy & fast. A sleeper!

Love the seats.

Enjoy it.

Are those standard seats ? They're much more practical than the white/grey (eventually black) alcantara...

Me likey.

LOVE IT!!!!!!!!

Can't wait for mine now.

Thanks for posting the pics

It is now. Look at the Skoda website.

http://skoda.co.uk/GBR/Documents/brochures/cars/brochure_octavia.pdf

As a complete aside, I spent 32 years working for Unisys - see first and last pages/picks

Love that!

Can't wait to get ours now

Lovely motor. Seats are a great improvement

Seats are an option, was in one yesterday, the revised interior with the carbon black makes a huge difference, much more upmarket feel to it.

Very nice the new interior,probably the best iv seen and way nicer than the full leather,is this interior standard now or an option?

It's now a no-cost option.

You get the choice of the standard seat finish, or the alcantara now. The alcantara option then means red stitching to the steering wheel too. You can't have one without the other...

Since when has it been a no cost option? I ordered mine about 4 weeks ago and had to pay something like £83 for it (£100 less tax) - just been on the Skoda website and it's showing as a cost option on there. Should I be speaking to my dealer?

Weird. Didn't add anything to the cost when I ran the configurator on their website earlier this week.

Checked again and it has indeed added £100 to the cost. Apologies for the confusion; blame Skoda

Still easily worth it though

Weird. Didn't add anything to the cost when I ran the configurator on their website earlier this week.

Checked again and it has indeed added £100 to the cost. Apologies for the confusion; blame Skoda

Still easily worth it though

I agree looks great worth £100!

Really like that new interior and all the red stitching

Would have got the Xenon's - they really are 2.6 times better - although the full beams are still normal so you get a white/yellow effect then!

So the carbon interior is now the standard?. I test drove a 61 plate one just before ordering and it had a brushed silver trim in it. Dealer didn't mention that it was now carbon.

Glad I went for the Alcantara though.