Say Hello To The New(ish) Skoda Octavia vRS

The Golf GTI's stupidly practical brother has received a little update, with refreshed looks, more power and some chassis tweaks
Say Hello To The New(ish) Skoda Octavia vRS

With the rest of the Octavia range recently receiving a little facelift, it’s now the turn of the hot vRS model. We ran a couple of the pre-update cars last year as longtermers and are big fans, so if Skoda has made it better, you can consider us interested.

It receives the same exterior tweaks as the boggo car, notably a new grille and a split headlamp design. Other than that you’ll find it hard to tell this apart from the old car, but hey, that’s modern facelifts for you.

Say Hello To The New(ish) Skoda Octavia vRS

Under the bonnet you’ll find an extra 10 horses to play with, giving a total of 227bhp in the petrol vRS, making 0-62mph possible in 6.8 seconds. The diesel’s 181bhp output meanwhile is unchanged from the outgoing car.

So far, so minor, but Skoda has made a few changes to the chassis. The rear track is now 30mm wider, and it drops the older XDS electronic differential lock - which uses small brake applications to reduced understeer - in favour of the fancier XDS+ system.

Say Hello To The New(ish) Skoda Octavia vRS

Speaking of differentials, there’s no mention of VW’s clever ‘VAQ’ electronically-controlled physical differential which was briefly available in the vRS 230, but we wouldn’t be surprised to see it make an appearance at a later stage.

We don’t know anything about pricing and on-sale dates just yet either, but expect that information to be released early next year.

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Comments

Anonymous

My dad has the old one, but personally i think it was looking better…i mean that thing looks like a constipated 2011 E-class

12/21/2016 - 07:34 |
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Anonymous

Photos from Grobnik racetrack in Croatia.

12/21/2016 - 07:39 |
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Daily Driver Reviews

First thing that comes to mind.

12/21/2016 - 08:23 |
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Sebastjan Stojnšek

Autodrom Grobnik sure looks nice in the winter (go check it out, it’s amazing track)

12/21/2016 - 09:41 |
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Anonymous

Well I really like it…

12/21/2016 - 10:09 |
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Anonymous

I’ll just leave this here.

12/21/2016 - 10:31 |
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Anonymous

Looks like a bad photoshop

12/21/2016 - 11:29 |
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Vishal Aravinth

The headlights are too small

12/21/2016 - 13:03 |
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Anonymous

Well I don’t like it. It looks like “inspired” by E-class and brutally pushed together. I do not like facelift of Mk. 2 Octavia too. Anyway, meh. It will work on its domestic market. Diesel Octavia is basic fleet car in here. It is mostly sold used car here. From dirt cheap, odometer faked, diesel burning MK.1 to pristine new RS. And everybody driven Octavia at least once people seems to like it somehow

12/21/2016 - 13:09 |
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Anonymous

It looks like a bad nose job.

12/21/2016 - 14:30 |
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