kinda kept up with a scooby wrx one night but i know had he wanted to he'd have murdered me!

Kept stuck to the chuff of a WRX one night :D

One confused Subaru driver :rofl::rofl:

I joined a local forum on the Island....got the usual **** takes...but after going to many a meet I was very welcome. Bear in mind I'm 30 and most of these are in their early 20's i thought that was a result. I'd often be convoying on meets with the Skylines, CTR's and other Jap stuff as well as the common pest known as the Saxo....they get more grief here!!

I followed a Skyline once here and I thought I kept up well. When we all got out he gave some nice comments on the car....then realised I wasn't an unmarked!!

Those who came out in it who owned a Beemer 328 and a Cossie were well impressed.....the Superb seems a little harder for them to get their heads round, but I've been on my local cruise site for years now!

Well i know the occy vrs and i owned one at 19 so some young lads do have taste

BMW and Merc drivers get very annoyed when they get blown away by a skoda. On the motorway when I realise their intentions, I accelerate at their pace to give them confidence until we meet traffic. As the traffic clears I accelerate hard and blow them away. That annoys the hell out of them

yea i had a bmw pushing me down the outside lane so i pulled in and give it a bootfull only to have myself left for dust badge on the back said 335D i have never seen anything pull away as quick as that did my friends supra included

yeah i owned a octavia at 18 and finally the vrs at 21 both mk1, but then my dads always had skodas, guess its ur upbringing lol

RichM ,yeh to a certain degree I miss the Cossy, more of a drivers car and more basic, and gave more feedback if you knew how to drive it on boost (which as you know with 300bhp+) can easily scare the **** out of you. What I don't miss is the single figure fuel consumption (emptied the tank in 147 miles once, 16 gallons!ouch) or silly oil consumpsion, silly insurance premiums and being scared of parking it where you can't see it.

The tavia Vrs on the other hand, never put a drop of oil in it (in 30,000 miles) does 35mpg all day every day (even does 30mpg when playing with an S type jag V8 @ twice the legal speed limit, I was on private land at the time your honour)!Insurance is the right side of £350 full comp and can park it where I like.

The Jap stuff isn't all bad, I also have a Suzuki Swift GTI (1300cc) rally car running around 130bhp and weighs in at 742kg, but couldn't live with it every day, noisy, smelly, hard work to drive but boy does it put a smile on your face when you blow away a 330 csi BMW up to 100mph.

CheeRS

Andy

RichM ,yeh to a certain degree I miss the Cossy, more of a drivers car and more basic, and gave more feedback if you knew how to drive it on boost (which as you know with 300bhp+) can easily scare the **** out of you. What I don't miss is the single figure fuel consumption (emptied the tank in 147 miles once, 16 gallons!ouch) or silly oil consumpsion, silly insurance premiums and being scared of parking it where you can't see it.

The tavia Vrs on the other hand, never put a drop of oil in it (in 30,000 miles) does 35mpg all day every day (even does 30mpg when playing with an S type jag V8 @ twice the legal speed limit, I was on private land at the time your honour)!Insurance is the right side of

Liking the sound of this Sierra of yours

Castle Combe, you in the west then? I'm in Gloucester but work Chippenham side of Bath (don't take the Tavia, use the wifes Toyota Starlet to keep the miles down) The rally car is going to Circuit motors (in Castle Combe village) in the new year to get the cams set up and get a Dastek ECU mapped (hope to get around 145bhp and 125lbft of torque) should be good for Scooby baiting!

Castle Combe, you in the west then? I'm in Gloucester but work Chippenham side of Bath (don't take the Tavia, use the wifes Toyota Starlet to keep the miles down) The rally car is going to Circuit motors (in Castle Combe village) in the new year to get the cams set up and get a Dastek ECU mapped (hope to get around 145bhp and 125lbft of torque) should be good for Scooby baiting!

Yep I'm in Melksham area

I can have some fun with my Octy too - local area plod use an unmarked silver one, makes the local boy racers look twice

Liking the sound of this Sierra of yours

oh.. Tiff Needell in the Puma and he started off in front of us

I'm hoping I can get similar pics of the Octy this year

The blackpool car community respect skodas, they all want one now.

I used to be unique :(

Nice mate,is that,what is it you call it,a flat eric i see peeking out from the back seat??? As for being unique theres plenty of skodas around my immediate area but i only know of 1 other Octy VRS immediatly nearby.

The one enduring thing that puts the cossie apart from the rest is the way it puts that stupid :D on your face EVERY time you get in that has lasted 6years ..

The vRS doesn't really do the same, but I'm hoping a remap combined with the turbo-back exhaust that is already fitted, may change that!

oh.. I've managed 3/4 of a tank in 70miles with the cossie (9mpg?) lol - 70 miles of Castle Combe mind you, not the Queen's Highway I can't see the vRS ever reaching that lol

I got 8.4 mpg average from my Octy round Knockhill at a trackday :eek::eek:

Before it got the exhaust, cat and hairier remap :O

Knockhill you say,whats that like to take the octy round? Keen on taking mine round there someday when i get the cash.

Knockhill you say,whats that like to take the octy round? Keen on taking mine round there someday when i get the cash.

Not a fast circuit, but very twisty. Good fun :thumbup:

Yea it's the Merc and BMW guys who always try to prove a point. Had this C200kompressor fellow try to prove a point to me. I let it be for a while, then showed him exactly wat the vRS can do. Punched the car all the way upto 205km/hr....the guy was duly chastened I beleive.

Don't be surprised by the 335d I have one and I have embarrassed a Jag XKR on the A14 they have a sequential turbo engine and pull like nothing else I have ever driven including a R34 Skyline!!! I have now de-badged the beemer but the duplex exhaust is a give away!!!

Still its not as much fun as my Octy thanks to Jabba sport!!!

Hmmm, that might explains what happened last night. I was driving home last night with my family on board, so I wasn't booting it or anything, when a Chavo booted it off a roundabout up behind me, I moved over and he dropped back, he didn't seem to want to race suddenly.

I have an Blueline diesel, which means I have the same rear spoiler as an vRS, I wonder if he thought I was.......... :confused:

Nothing like seeing the face of a beemer/merc driver when the grey skoda esate leaves them in a cloud of smoke