I know bog standard octy vrs handling is not brilliant but just borrowed me old mans car y reg 1.8 mondeo and a nice downhill sweeping left hander which I take in the vrs comfortably at 60-70 was pant staining different in the mondeo. Never again!!!!! Just cant wait to get rarb coilovers and bushes all round on the octy new car to drive basically

I can add at least another 20mph to my 70mph corners by driving the wifes E92 335 without it even breaking a sweat, or beginning to roll at all.

The down side is, I'm not sure how much warning it would give you that you're close to the edge.

 

It is a very sweet handling beast. Which alas, my vRS is not. I had all these big ideas of tweaking the crap out of the handling side, but a quick drive in the BM makes me realise it would just be a waste of money.

 

I'm only too happy to fit uprated parts for local kids though, on their Asda car park remapped MKIV Golf TDi's.

 

 

To be fair, I'd like to make the Skoda a better car, but I just can't justify it, when spending less money moving up to a better car would yield bigger improvements. But it does drive nicely, and predictably. (Well, it does WHEN I actually have decent tyres on it...)

Edited 7 December, 201312 yr by demonufo

My dad bought a Mondeo way back when they came out first (94/95?) i was only a small lad of at bout 12 and thought the thing was crap.

Only car i remember that regularly made me feel travel sick as a kid - nothing before it and nothing since ever has.

and the handling, my dad has told me since, was shocking it felt like it wasn't connected to the road,

and could literally move itself left or right on a straight road for no reason.

Didnt keep it terribly long traded to an E180... bloody tank

I was mostly looking at 56/07 era 2.0 Ghia MkIII Mundano's when I bought the vRS three years back. I thought they were really nice and well behaved. But every one I looked at had crying rust and bubbling at the seams on the inside bottom of the doors. That was NOT acceptable on what was then only 5 to 6 year old motors.

I had a 98 mondeo estate as my first car and found it pretty good to be honest.

OK, well it might not have been good, but It was very predictable and 'let go' very easily. I felt very connected to it and knew exactly what it was going to do through every corner.

I've never felt the same confidence even at low speeds with the Octavia it's just less predictable and feels too big for itself or something.