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SKODA OCTAVIA RS 245
Overdrive
|January 2021
Still the best bang-for-your-buck fast car in India?
Too close to premium brand rivals in price
Type 1,984cc, Inline-4 turbo petrol
Max power 245PS @5,000–6,700rpm
Max torque 370Nm @1,600–4,300rpm
LxWxH (mm) 4,689 x 1,814 x 1,469
Price ₹45.21 lakh (on-road Mumbai)
OD Rating
Strong engine, grippy limited slip-diff, racy looks, practical daily driver
As we wind this year down, very few of us will look back at it with any sense of fondness. But driving a car that you didn’t think you’d ever get your hands on, and one with a reputation such as this one, we’ll take that as a nice goodbye gift from 2020.
Launched just when the pandemic turned our world over, all units of the hot Skoda Octavia RS 245 were accounted for until the economic downturn that followed led to some cancellations. Lucky for you and us, there’s now a few of them still going around.
Didn’t we already have an Octavia RS?
This story is from the January 2021 edition of Overdrive.
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