Apologies if this has already been posted or is common news, but noticed this on the What Car website.

No Octavia hot hatch until 2005

27 May 2004

Hot hatch buyers will have to wait until late next year for a performance version of the new Skoda Octavia.

Although mainstream versions of the new hatch arrive in July, an RS-badged hot hatch won

That's even quicker than I thought! Was guessing 2006 or even '07 myself. No wait, that's probably for the 4x4...

Yes, I can confirm this too as I asked at the NEC Motorshow today.

(Don't ask them how secure the roof-rack onto of the silver Octavia Estate is though - I made them realise that it's a little unsafe - nearly got away with the