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Old 4th June 2008, 01:54   #31
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Rumour has it that Skoda will revamp this to enter launch in India and China and position as a cheap no frills car like the Logan
What about resale of existing cars & the service costs? A guy looking for a Logan or slightly above will never accept their service/spare costs.
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Old 4th June 2008, 02:33   #32
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The Laura is already outselling the Octavia.
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That too by a huge margin. ACI says that Laura outsells Octavia by around 50 %.
Thanks for that info both GTO and aaggoswami. Btw, what numbers is Octavia doing per month/ quarter? Any information on this?

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As far as I know , and I am sorry for reviving this thread, the V//RS has been discontinued.
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Yes and a sad fact that is.I had a talk with their sales VP regarding this.I even asked him i'll pay you an extra lakh if you can give me one VRS.but never happened.
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Yes and a sad fact that is.I had a talk with their sales VP regarding this.I even asked him i'll pay you an extra lakh if you can give me one VRS.but never happened.
Any idea when it was discontinued? I am pitching for one my self. Gonna try and search the entire Northern region for one.
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Any one has any idea when the RS was discontinued?
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about the same time user id abhinavgupta bought his .. he was saying his was amongst the last RS to be sold in India.
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about the same time user id abhinavgupta bought his .. he was saying his was amongst the last RS to be sold in India.
When did that happen?
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search his vRS thread. A few months back .. forget exact date.
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Old 9th November 2008, 22:35   #40
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it was stopped in december last year.abhinav bought it in i think mid of this year.it was a left over piece with them.
i've contacted them all.chd,delhi,ludhiana,jaipur,lkh...all of them.
even in mumbai,pune,chennai,cbe,hydrabad,bhopal,ahmdabad..
called all of them up.didn't even get one.
although the a delhi dealer has a rider 1.8 tpi left.it was a slight spec above the ambeinte model now available.

another thing you can get done it get a ambiente 1.8tpi.and mod it up.spend some 10 lakhs on it and it'll be a mindblowing showstopper with performance to boot.
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From what I have been hearing on the grapevine, the Octavia will not be discontinued any time soon. rather they are planning a facelift sometime mid-2009. And continue selling it. Maybe they will come up with a lower capacity engine for it.
In fact even the Laura is apparently being considered for a facelift.
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it was stopped in december last year.abhinav bought it in i think mid of this year.it was a left over piece with them.
i've contacted them all.chd,delhi,ludhiana,jaipur,lkh...all of them.
even in mumbai,pune,chennai,cbe,hydrabad,bhopal,ahmdabad..
called all of them up.didn't even get one.
although the a delhi dealer has a rider 1.8 tpi left.it was a slight spec above the ambeinte model now available.

another thing you can get done it get a ambiente 1.8tpi.and mod it up.spend some 10 lakhs on it and it'll be a mindblowing showstopper with performance to boot.
Chalo, I am gonna call em up and ask for a search of the northern region and see if I can get my hands on one.
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when the octy was launched way back in 2001 it was a great car, an awesome car. but now its old. either skoda give a really good facelift to it or kill it.
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all the best dude.i hope you find one.
try calling up the skoda plant and talk to the sales VP or some senior manager over there.
you might have some influential contact there.
why don't you get the new octavia VRS shipped down here.it should cost you in the region of 25 lakhs here.
else you can wait for the evo 10 to drop in anytime now.probably above 30 lakhs.maybe even 35 lakhs.
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@Karan
any thoughts of pimpin a 1.8 rider?
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