SKODA Octavia VRS WRX ?

thepharcyde · 11 Jan 2008 at 21:39

WHO CARES!!!!!!! you bickering bunch of girls.

[TW]Fox · 11 Jan 2008 at 21:41

thepharcyde said:
WHO CARES!!!!!!!

You clearly or you wouldn't have posted. If you don't wish to discuss Skoda Octavias may I suggest you kindly vacate the Skoda Octavia thread :rolleyes:

thepharcyde · 11 Jan 2008 at 21:42

[TW]Fox;10871209 said:
You clearly or you wouldn't have posted. If you don't wish to discuss Skoda Octavias may I suggest you kindly vacate the Skoda Octavia thread

Which has gone totally OT funnily enough by you?

Scuzi · 11 Jan 2008 at 21:42

thepharcyde said:
WHO CARES!!!!!!! you bickering bunch of girls.

Not everyone cares about your mulitple failing cars but they just choose not to post in your threads. Take a hint.

thepharcyde · 11 Jan 2008 at 21:43

Scuzi said:
Not everyone cares about your mulitple failing cars but they just choose not to post in your threads. Take a hint.

Again OT!

[TW]Fox · 11 Jan 2008 at 21:43

thepharcyde said:
Which has gone totally OT funnily enough by you?

a) Discussing a Skoda Octavia in a thread about Skoda Octavias is not OT
b) Please consider attending night classes so you may learn to read. It was not me who started the M3 v Skoda Octavia debate.
c) Go away and stop posting off topic rubbish.

Your post is the first off topic post in this thread. You are a hypocrit.

Again OT!

Is irony lost on you or something?

Scuzi · 11 Jan 2008 at 21:44

thepharcyde said:
Again OT!

You're the one who took it off topic :confused:

Back on topic now. If you have nothing to contribute to the thread I suggest you refrain from posting.

tblocksom · 11 Jan 2008 at 22:00

[TW]Fox;10871171 said:
No, not really. You make it sound like it's some sort of amazing toy - a toy you'd happily give up becuase you've got a Renault Espace instead. Interesting.

If it's as good as you say it is it sounds the perfect weekend toy for the odd aimless blast. Never do these make more sense than when you've already got another car for commuting or if you don't even need to commute at all.

It costs next to nothing to keep a car like this for infrequent use - just tax and insurance, as petrol is proportional to its usage.

Guess you still live with mum and dad then? When you're a bit older and have a family of your own, you'll appreciate how much it really costs to support a family of four :rolleyes:

[TW]Fox · 11 Jan 2008 at 22:01

Way to end a discussion on performance cars :rolleyes:

Insurance is what, £500 a year for you? Tax £200?

A whole £58 a month for a hobby like that. Most people spend more on Golf, the Gym, whatever other hobbies they have despite having a family. Just seemed a bit odd thats all - you seem to think its quite a weapon yet you don't want to keep it now you can justify just having it to play with.

Infact you probably save more than £58 in petrol now since you changed jobs right? So in actual fact you'll still be better off even keeping the car?

tblocksom · 11 Jan 2008 at 22:01

Scuzi said:
Your car is not an M3 beater. Stop kidding yourself.

Don't fancy that cuppa then?

Scuzi · 11 Jan 2008 at 22:03

tblocksom said:
Don't fancy that cuppa then?

Not really, no. I suspect a conversation, especially about your car, would be quite dull based on some of your responses in this thread.

tblocksom · 11 Jan 2008 at 22:05

[TW]Fox;10871346 said:
Way to end a discussion on performance cars

<primary school> you started it </primary school>

You're as welcome as Scuzi btw. In fact, anyone who feels a bit adventurous is welcome for a spin (if you don't mind, I'll do the driving though).

tblocksom · 11 Jan 2008 at 22:05

Scuzi said:
Not really, no. I suspect a conversation, especially about your car, would be quite dull based on some of your responses in this thread.

I won't say a thing... I promise

[TW]Fox · 11 Jan 2008 at 22:07

I will say I find your car interesting even if I don't think it's an M3 beater. No true petrolhead can find a Skoda Octavia with over 300bhp boring

tblocksom · 11 Jan 2008 at 22:12

[TW]Fox;10871346 said:
Insurance is what, £500 a year for you? Tax £200?

A whole £58 a month for a hobby like that. Most people spend more on Golf, the Gym, whatever other hobbies they have despite having a family. Just seemed a bit odd thats all - you seem to think its quite a weapon yet you don't want to keep it now you can justify just having it to play with.

£640 insurance, and £190 tax. And I don't think it is quite good, I know it is quite good. It's my 2nd vRS, and I've driven over 100K miles between them. I love them, and once I'm in good fortune again I will have one again (but this time I fancy an Mk2 Estate). But for this new job I have to make sacrifices, and selling the car is one of them.

Can we now close the subject of my financial situation?

tblocksom · 11 Jan 2008 at 22:16

[TW]Fox;10871388 said:
I will say I find your car interesting even if I don't think it's an M3 beater. No true petrolhead can find a Skoda Octavia with over 300bhp boring

Certainly not boring

Let's get back to the WRC edition... I prefer them without the stickers.

[TW]Fox · 11 Jan 2008 at 22:21

tblocksom said:
Let's get back to the WRC edition... I prefer them without the stickers.

Without the stickers its just a white Octavia. The one I saw today turned my head. It looked cool

tblocksom · 11 Jan 2008 at 22:39

[TW]Fox;10871463 said:
Without the stickers its just a white Octavia. The one I saw today turned my head. It looked cool

Ah, but us Skoda anoraks know that it is either an (ex) police car, or a WRC

And I have a soft spot for white cars...

Liverpool-Lad · 12 Jan 2008 at 03:06

Scuzi said:
The Octavia is not a high performance car. My Toledo is pretty much identical, same engine, same platform, same chassis, same brakes & suspension (I believe) and everything and I would tend to refer to it as reasonably quick rather than high performance.

Some of this is true, however the KW3 suspension costing 1k+ is not, and will make a world of difference although if wet the FWD platform will be a downer, it dry I can see them being close.

lordrobs · 12 Jan 2008 at 10:14

tblocksom- I knew you had a modified Octavia but never knew it was that one (I'm also on Briskoda)

I wonder what you have to do to stop the stickers looking rubbish after a few years? I guess a start would be to never polish it or make sure you polish around them (how much of a chore would that be

) and never go near it with a pressure washer?

The worst one I saw had all the stickers removed apart from the green bumper tops. That looked... odd :confused: