Having driven many different Skoda Octavias over the years (even a first-gen vRS with the 5v/cylinder 1.8-liter turbo), I’ve grown in my own personal opinion from thinking it’s a cheaper VW Golf clone with few merits to now understanding its qualities and its appeal for others.
However, for me, the thing that made any Octavia cool was the fact that you could get it as an RS (vRS for those living in Britain). Even cooler was that from the very first generation onward, they also made it available as a hot estate, a real kudos-builder in Europe, where people just seem to like their kind.
Now, in its third generation, the Octavia has grown to almost VW Passat dimensions, leaving room in the range for the equally-overgrown Rapid, and bringing it closer in size to the Superb, which despite being a Passat rival is also bigger than its German counterpart.
As always, the RS models are the ones people want to see (not necessarily buy), and now we don’t simply have to contend with studio shots, because they have been photographed out in the open, in a Czech parking/dealership lot.
The photos are limited in number, and probably taken with a phone, but they do show the RS estate in green, which is not something we’ve seen before, despite the fact that it’s actually the brand’s official color – virtually all old vRS models were either finished in blue, black or white, so these additional new colors are more than welcome.
By Andrei Nedelea
Story References: Octaviaclub via Autoforum
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