CAR Mag's first drive of the TDI vRS Octy...

Skoda Octavia vRS TDi - Hot Hatch - First Drives - Carmagazine.co.uk

"About as sexy as Miss Marple":D

Nice review.'Interior as good as if not better than the Golf GTi'.

What car said the same sort of things re petrol/diesel vRS

I liked -

The price you pay for really putting your bladder to the test is a big drop in refinement. Direct injection means the petrol unit isn’t the smoothest but the TDi unit sounds like a toddler playing drums on a pots and pans kit from cold and even when warm only gets its act together further up the rev range.

That review reads as though the writer wanted to hate the vRS TDi but couldn't find enough things wrong with it.

That review reads as though the writer wanted to hate the vRS TDi but couldn't find enough things wrong with it.

And he also doesn't know his common rail from his Pumpe Duse...

So much in the eye of the beholder...

This is a genuine hot hatch.

As a hot hatch, the Octavia is just not quite there.

The Skoda

Ive been reading some other reivews and it seems CAR like dis-agreeing with other mags too.

Is it too late to vote for the pic on page 7 as a candidate for the Briskoda calendar?