Octavia vRS Mk3 Pics - They're finally here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dArK5HaD0w]

a different color interior......

[MJKooLio]

Wonder if the update of this new 2014 model will have keyless start? Perhaps keyless entry too? Anyone know if VW do this?

Also, cigarette lighter near gear box? Could have been a start button?

Ohhhhhh, the volume scroll on the steering wheel?! Why??? Why can't it be a button setup like in my new Polo GTI!! Or the new confusing version in the new Golf..

Also, what's with the red reflector strip along the back of the Combi? I'd want to get rid of it!

But I do want this as my next car! But again, I want an SUV... Ughhhh so many choices

[woofy]

On the Czech website it has Kessy as an option. Probably would be an option here too and not std. With competition including it on 20k cars though they might include it as std.

[MJKooLio]

Kessy?

[zei20t]

'Keyless Entry and Start' or something like that

the alternate interior looks the goods too!

[MJKooLio]

White stitching on the gear box. I like that better than red.

[K1W1]

Also, cigarette lighter near gear box? Could have been a start button?

It's a 12v power outlet in this country. AFAIK Skodas in Australia have never been offered with cigarette lighters or ash trays as standard.

If you zoom right in on what appears to be an ignition switch on the steering column it looks like it is not actually a switch. It appears to have three lines of text on it. I suspect that in this picture at least this car is fitted with a start/stop switch.

[K1W1]

+1
i don't see how a traditional manual handbrake makes a car "look inferior" to one with an electric handbrake.

Have a discussion with an Audi or VW salesperson who has been in the job more than 10 seconds. I guarantee that if the subject of Skoda comes up the mechanical handbrake is one feature they would use to show why the Audi or VW product was more sophisticated and therefore worth more than the Skoda.

[FSI 220]

This handbrake dialogue can go round and round for ever...

I get ya... I do.... non enthusiasts ... graduating out of the Camry or US Accord are going to coo over it...

Personaly .... if a dealer tried to tell me that a "push button handbrake was more sophisticated than a lever" line I would be suggesting where said button might be installed on their person...

The only improved push button over hand brake lever ever is the horrid thing in the Commodore VE replaced in the VF... (I would even take a Torana foot on hand pull off arangement over the VE aberration.. ) but everything else has been a step backwards...

First thing I did when i stepped out of the B7 V6 into the roadster was make sure the HB worked!

[MJKooLio]

I can hear and feel the handbrake go (push/pull button) in the new 2014 Golf, don't like it