That MkI Octavia vRS is a stunner (irrespective of where it finished) 👌

Mk1 Fabia for me 😎

When you consider that everything else had about 100hp over the Mk1's and 2's, they didn't do badly. The mk1 fabia took a hell of a lot of speed off quickly under braking, I'm guessing it was on the standard brakes and got heat fade.

They might have ran Estates as well as Hatchbacks. Often not the longer roof or even heavier car being the difference, it is the stronger rear springs and the front not going lighter so loss of traction. The other thing is running them all with TC / ASR off.

7 hours ago, Gaz said:

Mk1 Fabia for me 😎

#TheVRSIsNotTheBestFabia

On 04/12/2025 at 16:00, Lee01 said:

#TheVRSIsNotTheBestFabia

Do you mean the rare 2.0l Fabia mk1 is better? The mythical Mustang slayer!

9 minutes ago, Jim H said:

Do you mean the rare 2.0l Fabia mk1 is better? The mythical Mustang slayer!

Nooooo

The MkI Fabia 1.9 TDi Elegance. With a cheeky remap to 155 bhp. Heated seats FTW

1 hour ago, Lee01 said:

Nooooo

The MkI Fabia 1.9 TDi Elegance. With a cheeky remap to 155 bhp. Heated seats FTW

I had a Fabia 1 VRS which was a great combo of low running cost and bit nippy with the 130 hp tdi. Local dealership who sold me that and a few other high performance Skoda also has a SEAT franchise and they had the Ibiza 160 hp version of the 1.9 tdi, and then they got the chip for it, knocking on for 200 hp supposedly and it was too much. Spinning up the front wheels too easy. Loved my mk 1 VRS Octy, have had it wheel spinning right up to 70 mph still in second.

Best speed over was over 150 mph in my my 2 Octy VRS and it was still accelerating.

Favourite Skoda was probably the 1.8 tsi l&k mk 2. Only got it too 135 mph but such a nice car with the short stroke EA888 engine, red line 7k but pulled well from 1500 ram and so nice with all the toys.

I thought I's seen it before. I've just realised the above is an shortened edited version of a race on Carwow's main channel, posted nearly 3 years ago. TBH, I'd prefer if they post drag races on the other channel and kept Carwow for car reviews.

Here is the original drag race vid.

Given the power gap from the mk1’s up to the new ones, and let’s face, a mk1 octy/ furby is now a min 20/21 yrs old, finding a couple of actually unaltered, and running clean and well ones was probably a challenge. So they were never gonna be giving much newer stuff a real run. Even losing 1 horse a year they were gonna be down a good bit.

That said, I do think they both did incredibly well!

17 hours ago, Lee01 said:

Nooooo

The MkI Fabia 1.9 TDi Elegance. With a cheeky remap to 155 bhp. Heated seats FTW

The 5 speed was a far better option than the 6 speed, unless you're looking for some silly top speeds.

4 hours ago, StevesTruck said:

The 5 speed was a far better option than the 6 speed, unless you're looking for some silly top speeds.

The acceleration wasn't too bad with +150bhp There was/ still is a six speed conversion kit for those boxes but the price was too high for my liking. IIRC the adding of the sixth cog and accompanying parts could be done with the box in situ.