New Octavia ....when? How Much?

[Sword_Dude]

I was talking to the Sales Manager of Brisbane Prestige yesterday about the upcoming release of the Scout and he told me that on release day there would be 160 of them in Australia on 26/3 for sale. He indicated that most are coming with some options (ie tech pack, sunroof etc). However he did say that he thought most would probably be pre sold.

He did give indicative drive away prices of $40k for the 110 TDI, $44k for the 132TSI and $47k for the 135TDI, about what I expected.

cheers

[nickd]

No wonder we're all waiting longer for ours... They're flat out building launch stock of Scouts!


2007 Golf 2.0 TDI Comfortline DSG/ESP
MY15 Octavia RS Wagon 135TDI, Race Blue, 18" Black Pack, Tech Pack, Comfort Pack, Auto Tailgate (on order)

[GeeMatt]

Unicorn in the house.

[brad]

No wonder we're all waiting longer for ours... They're flat out building launch stock of Scouts!

on BriSkoda they are concerned about trade-in prices as there is a glut of new stock sitting in dealerships...

[pologti18t]

Not sure if posted. Its the Octavia RS 230 - the Golf PP equivalent.

2015 Skoda Octavia RS 230 unveiled

[Mi16 Man]

New Octavia ....when? How Much?

Not sure if posted. Its the Octavia RS 230 - the Golf PP equivalent.

2015 Skoda Octavia RS 230 unveiled

Is this 'standard' or an option???? Lucky I saw this as I've got a car broker on the hunt now and 2x dealers on a mission to get my business for a white RS Wagon (manual).


MY13 Kluger KX-S AWD / MY09 308 XSE HDi SW

[brad]

Is this 'standard' or an option???? Lucky I saw this as I've got a car broker on the hunt now and 2x dealers on a mission to get my business for a white RS Wagon (manual).


MY13 Kluger KX-S AWD / MY09 308 XSE HDi SW

read the article again - not confirmed for Australia. Even if it was there'd be a 12 month wait

[KWICKS]

Congrats Matt. I'd have ordered silver except my last car was silver and I wanted something different. Looks good. Enjoy.

[Benj]

GeeMatt,

Out of interest, what tyres did you RS come with?

[techdave]

Finally my car is scheduled to be loaded in Belgium!
I see 58 vehicles in the same itinerary..plenty of people in Melbourne will be getting their cars in April!

Vessel is ANIARA:

ZEEBRUGGE	BELGIUM	26/02/2015	28/02/2015
SOUTHAMPTON	UNITED KINGDOM	01/03/2015	01/03/2015
EAST LONDON	SOUTH AFRICA	19/03/2015	19/03/2015
DURBAN	SOUTH AFRICA	20/03/2015	20/03/2015
FREMANTLE	AUSTRALIA	02/04/2015	03/04/2015
MELBOURNE	AUSTRALIA	07/04/2015	07/04/2015

[GeeMatt]

GeeMatt, Out of interest, what tyres did you RS come with?

ContiSport Contact 2 (18 Black Pack)

[brad]

Does anyone find it interesting that the CSC2 was superceded and production appears to have ceased for a fair while (and no stock available) and suddenly it's become very common as an OEM fitment?

[GTR27]

I had them on my 2010, MY11 rs, and have them again on the new Octavia. They are a decent tyre with good grip levels, but wear strangely and become noisy with age. But better than the **** a lot of other manufacturers put on their cars. Would be great if they were csc5s instead or ps3s, but cost would be the driving factor in these. I bet they are getting them for a song.

[brad]

I had them on my 2010, MY11 rs, and have them again on the new Octavia. They are a decent tyre with good grip levels, but wear strangely and become noisy with age. But better than the **** a lot of other manufacturers put on their cars. Would be great if they were csc5s instead or ps3s, but cost would be the driving factor in these. I bet they are getting them for a song.

Sure, they are a good tyre. I had them as OEM on mine too. Mine wore evenly and I got 45k but got noisy at <50% (but no worse than the RE050A I'm running at the moment).

It makes me think that they might have packed up the tooling and moved it somewhere with a cheaper cost base.

IIRC, Contis don't have the country of manufacture printed on them, just "Engineered in Germany" or similar. It would be interesting to see where they are made.

[woofy]

I've still got the Michelin PE2s at 65k wearing beautifully, no noise, still grip and still astounding me they have a reasonable amount of tread left. Being replaced with PS3s for sure, but wish the PS3s came stock on the new RS.