While a 0-62mph time of 6.7 seconds (0.1 seconds quicker than regular vRS) is actually two-tenths slower than the Golf GTI, it feels every bit as fast and the precise six-speed manual gearbox Sign In. Forgive my ignorance, but as the title suggests how can you tell if a VRS is a 230 or 245? My brother in law has asked me to go look at a facelift petrol vRS estate but I s there an obvious way of knowing, just so they don’t try pulling a fast one saying it’s one or the other. It was so much easi AED 27,000. 2. Learn about the Skoda Octavia 2024 2.0T VRS in UAE: Get updated car prices, read reviews, ask questions, compare cars, find car specs, view the feature list and browse photos. Octavia vRS Mk1 (2001-2006) Apparently it’s because Ford’s lawyers had a problem with Skoda sticking RS badges on its fast-ish road cars (like it does everywhere else in the world), that in The Octavia offers an exeptionally good value route to some of the best VAG engines around. The 1.8T, 2.0T and the modern 1.8TFSi are imminently tunable. We have seen power gains on these engines taking power up in excess of 300bhp! The vRS is a real stormer of a car and shows what the tuning potential is on the Octavia. Boot. There’s even more benefit to the Octavia is you open the rear hatchback. Whereas the Golf and Leon have 380-litre boots, the Octavia swallows up a massive 590 litres with the seats up. The 2020 Octavia vRS iV is the first performance Skoda model with a plug-in hybrid drivetrain. It also joins other electrified Octavia models like two mild hybrids and a less powerful plug-in. Skoda Octavia vRS Estate 2020 UK first drive By contrast, you need at least £32,925 for a petrol manual Octavia vRS estate, or £34,605 for an auto. For a diesel auto, like our test car, it’s Regarding the v in vRS, this was explained in a letter from Skoda (below). Skoda UK said: Reference: SD-2010/04-006667 Dear Bertee, Thank you for your letter dated 21 April 2010, regarding the meaning of Vrs Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to your email but your question required a bit more research and I wanted to make sure that I gave you the correct answer. 31 January 2019. Skoda has launched a fully loaded special edition of its Octavia vRS hot family car, called the vRS Challenge. The new version of the hot family car features a claimed £4535 tynP.