New Octavia ....when? How Much?

[woofy]

You can pretty much the see the pattern of production and EOFY sales and end of CY sales in those figures. Now they will have stock limitations also skewing sales to particular times of year. I would say 98% of RS sales wanted the tech pack etc, it was nice to launch it earlier, but when you show goodies people can't even really order yet it doesn't make much sense. In effect anyone who has ordered one already was a prelaunch sale pretty much until wk 22 comes into play. The optimist in me hopes by the end of the year presales will give them enough to work with to start buying in floor stock which should help the sales.

[cascade1983]

When you consider there were more Range Rover Sports sold, ie a subsection of a niche brand for a niche sector, than all of the Skoda range - I think Skoda's efforts in Australia are nothing short of ****ing pathetic.

Agree, for the same period of time Subaru sold almost triple of their new WRX, which was introduced couple of weeks after RS (similar size, similar performance, similar price): Subaru WRX smashes Australian sales record | CarAdvice

Very sad, that a poor management ruins what is in general very good car...

[MJKooLio]

Again it's an unknown brand to most Australians. Same with Opel. They'll struggle but continue to sell. Not so much a struggle but low number of sales.

I was surprized when I saw my dealer yesterday a whole pile of RS orders on her desk!

I said no! I don't want to see RS's everywhere!

[Antiplastix]

Just returned from test driving the 132 tsi and 110 tdi Elegance wagons. Realised there would be a lack of power compared to my vRS ,but that 132 is awful, have to rev the guts out of it to go, and then the 7 speed DSG couldn t make up its mind what gear it was in. The TDI is much smoother, more grunty and the 6 speed DSG is soooo much better. You can however feel the difference on bumpy roads with the solid rear end in the TDI.
Called in at the local Mazda dealer to test the 6 Wagon TDI too. The motor is less refined, bit slower off the mark but once moving the torque is incredible. The interior seems nasty and gimmicky and will quickly date.
The big difference is the extra $14k Mazda want for a change over, they re dreaming the Mazda isn t any where near as refined. Why pay more for less ? Bunch of "wankers" too, got shunted from one "bimbo" to another, then they tried to tell me how much better the Mazda was, but apparently none of them had driven the "new" Octavia. I ended up having to raise my voice and get aggressive to get my keys back, sort of place that gives dealers a bad name.

[MJKooLio]

I wanted to check out the Mazda 6... but i don't like the interiors that much. Screens not really up to size, silly flipping up display to show speed and the plastics!

[vEnOm_oz]

Anyone has more updates on the MY15 RS models? The UK car configurator suggests the following updates:

1. Flat bottom steering wheel
2. Option of electrically adjustable front seat - although to have this option you need to select electric mirrors and leather seats
3. Electrically adjustable, heated and foldable door mirrors with auto dimming, Boarding-Spots and memory function

[readerr0r]

Anyone has more updates on the MY15 RS models? The UK car configurator suggests the following updates:

1. Flat bottom steering wheel
2. Option of electrically adjustable front seat - although to have this option you need to select electric mirrors and leather seats
3. Electrically adjustable, heated and foldable door mirrors with auto dimming, Boarding-Spots and memory function

2 and 3 are UK only changes, they're specs previously available else where that they've added with the MY change in the UK market. The actual MY changes were listed earlier. Considering how late into MY14 SkodaAu launched the RS, I doubt there'll be any new spec additions other than those changes.

[vEnOm_oz]

2 and 3 are UK only changes, they're specs previously available else where that they've added with the MY change in the UK market. The actual MY changes were listed earlier. Considering how late into MY14 SkodaAu launched the RS, I doubt there'll be any new spec additions other than those changes.

Does that mean that the electric seats and folding mirrors are available to the Australian market for the RS?

[readerr0r]

Does that mean that the electric seats and folding mirrors are available to the Australian market for the RS?

They are available, but Skoda AU decided not to bring them here.

[vEnOm_oz]

That's just absurd. The Elegance gets it but the RS doesn't! It's now becoming standard on most Japanese and Korean cars. Even if it is a paid component I'm sure people will add it if there are 2 drivers for the car to avoid the inconvenience of repositioning the driver seat.


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