I think Skoda is saying that they're only really interested in fleet sales. Or most of their buyers really are that conservative. The sales manager in Croydon who sold me my red car, replaced it with a Dragon Green Sportline hatch very much going against regional advice. He has an electric blue Octavia (don't know the colour name) and a black Sportline hatch. (Makes a nice group on his showroom floor.) "I like bold colours," he said. I wonder what he thinks about the new trend?

I took a look at the German configurator to see if they've dropped Corrado Red which indeed they have.

Of interest is that they've added some additional special colours that they call "individual": Raspberry Red, Space Violet, Nightfire Blue, Highland Green, Patina Grey and Plum Blue.

I've always liked blue, especially the Race Blue (that's your electric blue, @freelunch ), but Petrol/Lava Blue never fully floated my boat. Nightfire Blue, however, would probably jump to my first choice with Space Violet making the choice harder.

I realise the Czechs have a huge range and those shown on the German configurator are but a small sample of them. Until now the Germans had the same colour choices as the UK with one additional white, Laser. If they're getting more options in Germany now, hopefully the UK might follow soon.

13 hours ago, freelunch said:

Yellow is available, but for some reason they call it Dragon green?

 

Just looked and found it, but only on the Sportline...lets hope my company car budget will stretch that far in 2019...

 

(Looks good though!)

It should have been Corrida Red and not Corrado Red. As you've all been too kind to pick me up on that, I'll do it myself. 

 

 

And it's still available for the Octavia VRS!

Edited 1 March, 20179 yr by BillyJim

It's still red.

 

Don't beat yourself up over a non-existent colour! 

 

I've got the colour in question and hadn't even noticed. London Bus Red, I call it.

Add some yellow patches, put a ladder on the roof, and you can go fight fires too!

I was wondering what to do about my grill...

57 minutes ago, BillyJim said:

I took a look at the German configurator to see if they've dropped Corrado Red which indeed they have.

Of interest is that they've added some additional special colours that they call "individual": Raspberry Red, Space Violet, Nightfire Blue, Highland Green, Patina Grey and Plum Blue.

 

The Raspberry Red looks interesting.  Although I do like my Corrida Red I'd have preferred a metallic red, however, all the "individual" colours listed are priced at the same point as the Dragon Green on the Sportline (850 euros on the German configurator which would mean £820 here if the pricing is kept the same).  That's quite some premium in order to get a more interesting colour.

 

I was somewhat annoyed at having to pay extra for Corrida Red which I believe should've been a free option (the same goes for Candy White).

50 Shades of Grey for U.K. Buyers then.  Škoda UK should hang their heads in shame.  It's as if everything is aimed at business sales and private punters are ignored.

3 hours ago, wooyay said:

 

The Raspberry Red looks interesting.  Although I do like my Corrida Red I'd have preferred a metallic red, however, all the "individual" colours listed are priced at the same point as the Dragon Green on the Sportline (850 euros on the German configurator which would mean £820 here if the pricing is kept the same).  That's quite some premium in order to get a more interesting colour.

 

I was somewhat annoyed at having to pay extra for Corrida Red which I believe should've been a free option (the same goes for Candy White).

Was red never free then? Could have sworn I saw it free but maybe not. 

No charge for Red over here in Ireland as it is non-metallic. Currently have a sportline on order in Red...so now maybe I was lucky to get this!!!

@BillyJim Now I remember why Corrado slipped by me so easily. It was Junior Soprano's name.

 

@wooyay Yeah, metallic red, like the beautiful Competizione Red you can order on the new Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio. It comes as a £1,750 option. Sheesh...

16 hours ago, tigermad said:

Was red never free then? Could have sworn I saw it free but maybe not. 

Uk cars.. the Pacific Blue was free, then candy white and  Red was a paid for colour *£150 ish as a solid colour and then the met colours more

21 hours ago, BillyJim said:

It should have been Corrida Red and not Corrado Red. As you've all been too kind to pick me up on that, I'll do it myself. 

 

 

And it's still available for the Octavia VRS!

Haha, I did actually check that I wasn't saying/spelling it incorrectly. 

18 minutes ago, freelunch said:

Now I remember why Corrado slipped by me so easily. It was Junior Soprano's name.

And that name is always in my head because I once owned one - even though it was actually blue.

@wooyay

@freelunch

 

UK configurator has a tasty looking (on the configurator, at least ) metallic red for Octy VRS.

 

Maybe that will come to the Superb????

Corrida Corrado

 

 

5 minutes ago, freelunch said:

Corrida Corrado

 

 

The VAG independent specialist who serviced my Leon has a Corrado in the current process of having the 2.0 TFSI engine and gear box from a Mk2 Leon being bolted in.   Darth Vader would drive a Corrado. 

27 minutes ago, Skoda Al Coda said:

@wooyay

@freelunch

 

UK configurator has a tasty looking (on the configurator, at least ) metallic red for Octy VRS.

 

Maybe that will come to the Superb????

Thats still Corrida Red, you can still get it on VRS at the moment.

7 minutes ago, tigermad said:

Thats still Corrida Red, you can still get it on VRS at the moment.

 

Sorry, my friend - look again.

 

Rio Red Metallic, £380

 

Of course, Rallye Green is THE colour, if you're brave enough.

5 minutes ago, Skoda Al Coda said:

 

Sorry, my friend - look again.

 

Rio Red Metallic, £380

 

Of course, Rallye Green is THE colour, if you're brave enough.

hi, corrida red is still there though. didnt see the metallic one looks purple/brown in the little square example.

26 minutes ago, tigermad said:

looks purple/brown in the little square example.

 

 That's Skoda for you.

 

Facts as known:

-- Described as 'Metallic'

-- Somewhere loosely on the red spectrum

corrida still there on the Rapid also...

I'm hoping that the recent withdrawals of certain colours mean that some new ones may be on the way. I'll be ordering a new MKIII around July time and really wanted something less boring than silver or grey, more practical than white or black.

 

I'd narrowed down to either Jungle Green or Corrida Red and now both have been withdrawn.

 

Gutted

1 hour ago, Twelvebears said:

really wanted something less boring than silver

 

How dare you?