So after a year of ownership time has come to say goodbye to LR60xxx. After waiting 26 weeks for delivery the experience was great, my race blue VRS with every option really stood out in the company car park and on a regular basis people enquired about her. For me, almost perfect, apart from the DSG gearbox which just always felt like I was in the wrong gear, too geared for economy, manually changing gear solved this but in traffic it then dropped down into 1st to easily, making the drive a little jerky.

For the price which included the VAT being knocked off there is no better car, the options I got were amazing, the best of which were the full leather and bending headlamps.

So what next? A promotion at work see's an increased budget so I've opted for a 5 Series 520d M Sport, its clear that this car is in another league to my VRS I just hope I get the same feeling every time I press the start button. Spec wise a few options, mainly upgraded navigation and audio, otherwise standard as the pricing is crazy!

Time to disappear off into the crowd, thanks for the advice and maybe just maybe when my wifes MINI ends its lease a VRS will return.

Cheers

Dan

cant believe your ditching us for a 520d id want a 535d M sport to give up the old skoda :p Congratulations on promotion and enjoy the new motor just dont turn into a BMW driver on the motorways ......

Is it too late to get you old job back?

:p

That BMW is in another league, a league far below the Skoda.

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Edited 18 May, 201214 yr by Tim31

I do quite like the new shape 5 but agree the 520d will bore you to death.

Well done with the promotion but its allowed you to get a car that are (in your own words) crazy prices.

Personally its a league above i miss my 525dm something terrible (for space & comfort although i suppose i could have bought a superb) BUT and its a big but....it was boring everytime i step into the Vrs i feel like a teenager

Personally overall i prefer the Skoda depsite its problems.

On and your 520d wont be any quicker its 177hp compared to the 170 of a tdi vrs or the 200hp of the petrol even a remapped 525d is slow compared to a mapped petrol vrs, i love blowing past them in my "teenage spells"

So after a year of ownership time has come to say goodbye to LR60xxx. After waiting 26 weeks for delivery the experience was great, my race blue VRS with every option really stood out in the company car park and on a regular basis people enquired about her. For me, almost perfect, apart from the DSG gearbox which just always felt like I was in the wrong gear, too geared for economy, manually changing gear solved this but in traffic it then dropped down into 1st to easily, making the drive a little jerky.

For the price which included the VAT being knocked off there is no better car, the options I got were amazing, the best of which were the full leather and bending headlamps.

So what next? A promotion at work see's an increased budget so I've opted for a 5 Series 520d M Sport, its clear that this car is in another league to my VRS I just hope I get the same feeling every time I press the start button. Spec wise a few options, mainly upgraded navigation and audio, otherwise standard as the pricing is crazy!

Time to disappear off into the crowd, thanks for the advice and maybe just maybe when my wifes MINI ends its lease a VRS will return.

Cheers

Dan

I'm not restricted by a budget that would stop me getting the Beemer, but I would choose the vRS everytime over it. Have sat & driven both and much prefer the vRS.

Now a 335d / 535d is a different argument altogether!

Good luck with your new job (I'm sure they would let you keep the vRS if you asked)

Being RWD it will be absolutely awful in bad weather.

RWD = awful in bad weather? Eh.... Not if you can drive probably.

Congratulations on the promotion. Shame you're loosing the Skoda but I hope you enjoy your new car similarly.

RWD = awful in bad weather? Eh.... Not if you can drive probably.

Congratulations on the promotion. Shame you're loosing the Skoda but I hope you enjoy your new car similarly.

Same driver attempting to get an Octavia vRS up hill in the snow, followed by same driver in the BMW. I know what the outcome would be.

A poor workman always blames his tools

That BMW is in another league, a league far below the Skoda.

What are you smoking? The 5er is a great car for making progress and the driver experience.

The snow is the only thing where you're likely to have me agreeing.

Sure it costs more, but you know what they say about having to ask the price.

You will have to learn to drive like a knob now too. Hog the middle or outside lane on the motorway, drive up people's arses and bully them out of the way etc.

The interior in a BMW is horrible all of them. I agree with the comment above a league below

Actually that tends to be VAG drivers these days. Mainly A3 (often 1.6) and Golf (MK IV 2.0 GTI) from my experience.

2 Cars ago I had latest shape 5 series. The worst car I have ever owned & put me of BMWs for life! 10 dealer visits in 2 years were the reason I hated it so much. So it went the day the warranty expired. It was a 2004 early model (I was beta tester by the looks of it!). I'm sure the electronic gremlins are well sorted now.

Same driver attempting to get an Octavia vRS up hill in the snow, followed by same driver in the BMW. I know what the outcome would be.

Yeah, the skoda would be going backwards....... up the hill!!;o) (provided the driver knew what they were doing???!!)

Edited 29 November, 201114 yr by TommyC

A poor workman always blames his tools

I'm familiar with that expression, but it doesn't make sense in the context of the example I posted.