I am hoping there are some people on here who can help me with a new car choice. I currently own a mark 2 Octy 1.9 TDI Elegance 2005 and a Superb 2 Estate DSG 170 elegance 2011. 
I like both cars in their own way. The tech in the Superb 2 is amazing even though old. The Octy has been the most reliable car I have ever owned. Added about 230k to it. I have also owned a Fabia vRS for a short while and that was fun little rocket. I am now thinking of something sporty again. 
Been window shopping an Octy VRS. Manual as DSG is nothing special, in my Superb not as smooth at low speeds and changes up too soon. I crave reliability, don’t we all, so with that in mind and petrol is on the table what car age should I be looking at?

later post 2010 appear to have cam chain related issues?  How about coaked up inlets? The earlier models were cambelt so are they any better?

i would like Bluetooth, SD card. MFSW electric windows and sunroof, again as long as that is trouble free. Any pointers what to look out for and what to avoid? Thanks 

I forgot to add rear parking sensors so that discounts a lot of the cars out there. Coming from an elegance the spec is very much cut back on the vRS models. The fact I got maxidot and MFSW on the elegance was quite nice back in 2009 buying used.