We I agree that the engine is a peach. Very smooth, like frappuchinno. It is not erratic, like phcyso who wants to murder everyone around but delivers Tyson punch. I owned vrs mk2 mapped and megane sport and it feels as fast. My friend owns 530d gt and I am faster, tried many times! And 530d 0-60 times are around 6 secs. So how 2.0 dsg can be fater? To be honest I am afraid to map it as I am afraid I will spoil it:) may be this all is just in my head:)

We I agree that the engine is a peach. Very smooth, like frappuchinno. It is not erratic, like phcyso who wants to murder everyone around but delivers Tyson punch. I owned vrs mk2 mapped and megane sport and it feels as fast. My friend owns 530d gt and I am faster, tried many times! And 530d 0-60 times are around 6 secs. So how 2.0 dsg can be fater? To be honest I am afraid to map it as I am afraid I will spoil it:) may be this all is just in my head:)

A 530D GT should take around 6.2 - 6.4 seconds to get to 60 depending on spec. Its a very heavy car and isnt hat sprightly off the line (its essentially a 7 series underneath, not a 5) I can well believe that a DSG equipped TSi VRS can do 60 in 6 seconds as I've achieved this myself. Sub 6 seconds however is notoriously difficult to achieve on fwd, especially with a lack of tricky diff and sticky tyres. No doubt it's a great range of engines but I'm of the firm belief that awd is of great benefit when your dealing with 280bhp compared to a front wheel drive setup, especially given the fact that its damp on our roads for the majority of the year.

Well I live in Finland where it snows most of the time:) and I still can live with fw car. in fact I have just sold mitsu outlander, decided I don't not really need it:)

Well I live in Finland where it snows most of the time:)

So the 0-60 times are almost irrelevant then as you won't see the manufacturers figures achieved on snow, let alone better them. I've always found my awd yeti running winter tyres far more capable when driving in Germany/Austria/Switzerland than my fwd Ford running winters.

Well when we finally get grip in summer, it feels so good. well I would go for awd in a very big suv diesel, good for crawling around the forest in winter, something like Pajero. In other cases I am ok with fw or rw drives:) and even in winter fw is quite capable, trafic light starts are surely not very effective butwhen you get rolling you can drive it preatty fast on ice as well.

So after a visit to my Skoda dealer to buy a Citigo (for the wives commute), we got chatting and they brought up that there was 'very likely' to be a new version of the octavia coming soon and would i like to be contacted when they have the information.

 

I said yes and asked what it was going to be (already having seen the new prototype pics and read the various reports about a new more powerful model). They said a 280ps version was 'very likely' to be on the horizon and that it may be 4x4 or the GTI dif to handle the extra power - they didn't know for sure.

 

Exciting!

It's going to be the seat Cupra spec so nothing new I bet