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To cut a long story short - I wanted to get back to a "petrol car" after driving a diesel for 1.5 years. Kept a budget of between 8-9 lacs and started my search for a used car.

Shortlisted cars - The Skoda vRS , Honda Accord ( old and new ) , Ford Mondeo.

Honda Accords - over priced in the used car markets.
Ford Mondeo - got a well maintained car but the history made me drop it like a hot potato.
Skoda vRS - very very difficult to find in the used car market.

Heart was set on the vRS (which i could not find) so decided to check out the Accords but then Lady Luck smiled .........

So guys - introducing the new beast in my garage - The Skoda vRS.

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Nov 2004 Company regd., MH-01 regn , single owner driven , 22800 kms done. I checked up the service history and the car had been maintained as per schedule ( 4 services done ). Was over the moon , struck the deal ( A VERY VERY GOOD ONE ) and got the beast home.

So far have driven it for close to 2000 kms - and these are the positives and negatives that I have seen and felt. I will not go into how the engine performs or how it rides , we all are aware of that. Just a few observations.

Positives - Power , Handling , Front seats , FE , engine

Negatives - Front seat travel is limited , sun/moon roof leaks (has a few drops of water always after I wash it) , no electrical power front seat and ORVM controls for closing and opening (Optra has electric OVRM's)

Have done a couple of Bbay - Pune and Bbay - Silvassa runs. Used the Cruise Control and fell in love with it. Used the sunroof and fell in love with it , the xenons are brilliant ( specially as I have a film on the front windscreen )

Avg FE - with a 50-50 mix of highway and bumper to bumper city traffic comes to about 9-9.5 kmpl while cruising at 80 kmph on the highway gives me close to 14 kmpl and absolute jam packed traffic gives me 7 kmpl.

Have kept the whole car stock except for the ICE. The car comes with Alpine 9830 HU , have kept that and the Sony 444 amp from the older car. Changed the front spekers to JBL 607 components and got a JBL CS1004T tube in the boot. Rear speakers are stock , might go in for a change this month.

And I changed the tyres on the vRS with the Goodyear NCT5 on my diesel Octy. The Dunlops on the vRS were not impressive.

What else ? Well it feels good to be back on petrol now. Attached are a few pics - better ones will follow...















Cheers

Edit - Oops, forgot to tell you fellas that I have the Harmon Kardon Drive + Play as well. And offcourse Jet Black tints. :)

Welcome back to being a PETROLhead!

Now there's something Mr. Monkey would be smiling about! He finally has someone else with the same problem!

Nice report NC..
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Whose the model in the last picture posing with the car?????
EDIT: This feb would be 2 years that I have my L&K with a sunroof that DOES NOT LEAK!!!:D

Finally the cat comes out of the bag ... Good to know you got a car in the same condition as I got mine :)

Enjoy pal

With an FE of 9 (i am surprised, but then its you) the VRS makes good VFM for a used buy. Congrats for the new set of wheels again pal.

manson.

Car looked very good when I saw it. Congratulations.

Congrats - out of curiosity, how does is compare driving wise to an OHC Vtec?

Congrats NC. I heard about the new aquisition from Rudra. Fantaststic deal. Drive safe.

Congrats NC for the much acclaimed RS !!!

Since you have already driven Octy diesel, how do you compare it in a few words to this petrol beast?

Congratulations, sounds like a real good deal to me. Take good care of her & enjoy the experience! Nice crisp review by the way...

I'll butt in here. my personal experience is that the car though powerful & very stable is quite remote compared to the VTEC. The road feel, steering feel etc. are absent & thus is very different to drive. If you don't mind that then you would quite like it, especially the power & accelaration.

Mind you the ride is not what I would call soft!!

congratz dude!! neat one!!

Congrats Dude So you got two Silver Octys In your Garage (Or have you sold your Diesel ?)

@iraghava: Doesnt a Car which is designed for Power & handling have stiff suspension & hence a Not Soft ride ?

Yes, but there are varying degrees of stiffness. IMHO (I mentioned as much in my post) the RS has too stiff a ride for my back (I have a back problem) & hence I posted that. If I were to buy one I would prefer to buy a Rider Petrol & then mod it according to my requirements.

I don't get it. You find an RS's ride stiff but don't mind the bouncy OHC? I love the taut feel of the RS. Its not stiff, its just right!