Skoda unleashes its most powerful and fastest Octavia vRS yet – and it’s a cracking high-performance all-rounder ...

Seen as the Golf GTi with even more practicality, the latest vRS gains more power and technology. Cameron Richards finds out ...

The interior has also got significant changes ... Previously, there was a Skoda Octavia vRS iV Estate, which offered a plug-in hybrid set-up with a rechargeable battery and a petrol engine ...

The Skoda Octavia vRS is one of the most unassuming performance ... chassis technology and interior HMI into the same practical performance package we’d come to love in its predecessors.

Powering the new Kodiaq vRS is the familiar ‘EA888’ 2.0-litre four-cylinder petrol engine, found throughout the Volkswagen ...

It’s the modern day Octavia (it shares its name with an earlier model produced between 1959 and 1971), of which Skoda has sold ... And it has the least annoying interior too, with new tech ...

What’s most notable about this updated Octavia vRS is what’s no ... you’d call an exciting interior. The quality is generally very good and in tune with Skoda’s usual standards – though ...

As for its chassis, the Octavia vRS once again pairs Golf GTI hardware with a longer wheelbase, which has in the past successfully injected control and agility into the car’s practicality-minded ...

The ‘Loft Design’ interior trim ... adaptive cruise control, vRS engine sound and an electronically operated bootlid are standard. Skoda has tweaked the Octavia’s engine line up slightly ...

The interior has also got significant changes ... Previously, there was a Skoda Octavia vRS iV Estate, which offered a plug-in hybrid set-up with a rechargeable battery and a petrol engine ...

The interior is well made with lots of good ... vRS badging and a 13-inch infotainment touch screen. Skoda’s Octavia vRS offers a little bit of everything for everyone. It has the performance ...