I have been looking for acceleration times for the Octavia VRs TDI for bragging points. Unfortunately I can only find 0 to 62mph times which are not the most flattering. Does anyone know the in gear acceleration times (i.e. from 30 to 70mph) and how these compare to the petrol VRs and/or other performance hatches.

P.S. I test drove a Mazda 3 MPS yesterday. It was superbly quick (licence lossingly quick infact) but very boring in both looks and feel. You would hardly know it was a performance car from the outside and the drive left you a bit dead inside. When you have 256bhp through the front wheels you would expect/want some thrills when you press on hard. There is no feed back through the steering wheel. In fact they have over refined it so that there is no torque steer to mention (a big engineering feat but leaves the car with no character/soul).

it doesn't wheel spin much or torque steer much because it has equal length drive shafts and an LSD as standard :confused:

i personally count this as a good thing in a car

people on here have done back to back tests and found the petrol mk2 vRS to be quicker in every way

There are some figures here, it's actually a comparison table between the vRS TDi and the Mondeo ST TDCi.

Mondeo v Octavia vRS TDi

Taken from Skoda Octavia vRS TDI v Ford Mondeo ST TDCi

Dave.

Cheers for the comparison with mondeo. Would be great to get the same figures for the petrol Mk 2 vrs as well to compare. I would also be interested how it compares to times for my current mk 1 octavia vrs. Surely the TDi should be quicker when in the gears as it is only 10bhp down on the power but has nearly 50% more torque.

I never said the Mazda 3 was not a good car, just that it did not excite me.

It's actually down more than 10bhp on power compared to the petrol. I found the above link by Google, why not try doing a bit of research and bring the findings here? I think in many cases the TDi may feel faster in gear, but the TFSi will edge it.

Dave.

I did try and research using google etc. but got no joy (I had found the article with the Mondeo but not the table you found). That is why I tried asking the question on here. The 10bhp decrease in power is when I compare the new octavia TDi to my current Mk 1 1.8T Octavia VRS and not comparing it to the new TFSI VRS (more like 30bhp decrease).

Would be great to get the same figures for the petrol Mk 2 vrs as well to compare.

as i already said although they didn't time it some other members have already done these tests whilst having the cars side by side and found the petrol to be quicker in every way be it in gear tests or through the gears from any speed to any speed.

Be careful when looking up times as 30 - 70 mph times are usually 'through the gears' not 'in gear'. Generally 'in gear' are quoted in 20mph increments.

Before buying my vRS TDI I did some magazine research and came up with the following for 50-70 mph in top (long 6th for the vRS TDI but only 5th for some of the cars quoted) and 30-70 through the gears.

Remember that the in gear favours the torque of a TDI and through gears favours power of a petrol car;-

Increment 50-70 30-70

Octavia vRS TDI - 8.0 7.6

Octavia vRS TFSI - 7.7 6.3

Mondeo ST TDCi - 11.3 9.6

BMW 320d - 9.6 8.4

BMW 330d - 7.6 7.9

Saab 9-5 V6 TDi - 7.7 7.6

Impreza WRX - 9.6 5.8

Astra VXR - 7.5 5.7

PS> Its difficult to set out the columns but 1st time is 50-70 in top & 2nd time is 30-70 through gears

so as i said earlier..................