Octavia vRS - Up Close & Personal

[Jake02]

Also noticed the headlight adjustment missing and the chrome badges on the front door speakers don't look familiar to me either...

Adding onto dArK5HaD0w's comment, yeah that's the RS they get in Malaysia. It's like Mahindra here, they're carried by a special importer (not even VW Malaysia). The price? Equivalent to A$62k! I regularly browse that website as I like to find out what's happening in the Malaysian car world . I also noticed that the Bolero radio in the Superb they had there looks a little different to the Bolero featured here.

And Mark, well those speakers are part of the 12-speaker set-up. That appears to be the only high-end feature on the car ... for $62k!!! It also says that's the cheapest way into the 2.0TSI motor ... imagine a GTI price!

[dArK5HaD0w]

Also noticed the headlight adjustment missing...

cars that come with factory fitted xenon lights do not have the manual headlight adjustment.
this car has xenon lights, hence why u don't c it.

[dodgey]

That appears to be the only high-end feature on the car ... for $62k!!! It also says that's the cheapest way into the 2.0TSI motor ... imagine a GTI price!

Check out the price of the RS in Singapore and you might faint

The 2.0TSI motors don't like Malaysia and Singapore that much. Way too hot...

[Jake02]

Check out the price of the RS in Singapore and you might faint

Just did and just did. The equivalent of $105k for my $41k on-road RS liftback. Far out; poor buggers!

[MarksVRS]

cars that come with factory fitted xenon lights do not have the manual headlight adjustment.
this car has xenon lights, hence why u don't c it.

Ahh thanks for the clarification. So is that like an arbritary exclusion like steering wheel controls/6sp man or does the xenon option have a self-levelling facility?

[BlackSuperb]

.....does the xenon option have a self-levelling facility?

The Bi-Xenons do a little dance (up, down, crosseyed, and then opposite to crosseyed) every time they come on which recalibrates them for levels and range of movement and focus.

[dArK5HaD0w]

Ahh thanks for the clarification. So is that like an arbritary exclusion like steering wheel controls/6sp man or does the xenon option have a self-levelling facility?

that's right...they have auto-leveling sensors. they r constantly adjusting - when going up hill; increase in passengers; increase in boot load; etc etc. essentially everytime the pitch of the car changes, the xenons r self-levelled.

as mentioned by BlackSuperb, when u start they car, they recalibrate - go to their max & min points. looks kinda cool
there's a clip on youtube showing this.....can't find it now!!!

[dArK5HaD0w]

there's a clip on youtube showing this.....can't find it now!!!

found it!! -
AFS xenony - nastavení škoda octavia II facelift
YouTube - New Skoda Superb AFS (Adaptive Frontlight System)

while we're at.....check out the dynamic (bending) feature of the factory fitted xenons. the same self-leveling system also does the bending.
bending_xenon
pretty cool too

[Maximus]

Just did and just did. The equivalent of $105k for my $41k on-road RS liftback. Far out; poor buggers!

Don't pity them. They pay next to nothing in income taxes all their lives, their home loans are south of 4% p.a, they can even use a large part of their EPF superannuation to pay off their home loans, and their cab fares are cheaper than our parking charges.

[woofy]

My memory with income tax in Singapore was that it was 30c/$ for everyone and they had super built into that.