From Mk1 to present day; does the Skoda Octavia vRS stay true to its roots? 🤔
This is an origins story, which means it’s all about comparing and contrasting between old and new. Taking an original and tracing its DNA through the subsequent generations, discovering not only how a car has evolved, but also how it has stayed the same. Is it still true to the original formula? But when looking at the Octavia vRS, it’s impossible not to begin by comparing it with another original:original in fact. The Golf GTI.
After The Wall came down there was a lot of wrangling between western car manufacturers to wrestle control of Skoda from the Czech government. BMW, Fiat, Ford, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Renault, Volvo and, of course, VW, all wanted a piece of the action and were furiously filing business plans. By 1991, VW had won the boardroom battle. It had bought a 30 per cent share, which it planned to grow steadily over the decade until it had Skoda sewn up lock, stock and barrel by 2000.
The EA113’s a good engine, too. Not legendary, like the high-revving box of tricks you’d find lurking under the bonnet of an EP3 Type R. It’s more stoic than that; more beefy than peaky. It all starts with plenty of low-end, turbocharged muscle, so there’s no need to wind it up to make great strides across the countryside – just keep it smack-bang between 2,000 and 5,000rpm and you’ve got all the flexibility you need. But, of course, you’ll want to wind it up just for the hell of it.
There’s no interim phase, here; no gentle onset of understeer. There’s just understeer. The binary kind, like you get with a cold set of Cup2 Rs. Funnily enough, the vRS wasn’t on Cup2 Rs, though I reckon the tyres may have been to blame for the staccato grip. When Harry was taking a few pictures I had a look at what was on each corner. I clocked 205/50 17s all round, which is as it should be, but Kumho Ecsta at the front and Lassa Imperius at the rear.
Right then, on to the current vRS. I’d say the first similarities can be seen from outside. It might be more chiselled than the Mk1, and in this shade of Phoenix Orange it’s not a shrinking violet, but the basic tenet of its design is still clean and classy, and the vRS additions remain restrained. You can trace the lineage inside, too.
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