The same platform, the same engine, similar size, many shared components … The "internal bickering" within the Volkswagen Group they are well known, but this time each brand prints a different personality to these versions.

After knowing the intentions of the current president of Volkswagen Group, Bernd Pischetsrieder, to reorient the four basic pillars-Audi, Seat, Volkswagen and Skoda- consortium to define them in such a way that they complement each other (will not be for arrival VW Phaeton to rival the A8), then perhaps understand everything better. Meanwhile, the confusion is even anecdotal between this new version of Toledo, which receives engine 1.8 Turbo 180 hp, and the Skoda Octavia RS, which already takes a few months on the market.

The arrival of this Toledo V5 replacing the 170 hp is a maneuver dictated to trial since sportsmanship that has been assigned to Seat, although the expected complement Seat differentiator within the Group with its "agile chassis", Already mounted Ibiza and Leon Cupra R, it has been halfway through a simple but perfect adaptation of springs and dampers facing increased performance.
If we speak agile chassis, this is the one presented by his behavior the Octavia RS, which frame has been clearly defined by sporting paths, oblivious to what we knew to date on the mark. But this is not reciprocated sportsmanship in its fullness by the gearbox used, 5-speed, when normally in the rest of the group this engine is associated with a change of 6, as in the case of Toledo. Sure, it’s the differentiating factor price of Skoda Octavia and specifically what recommends this technical decision, some might say … if not because it is 2,385 euros! more expensive than Toledo. What a mess.
Without going into whether the personality of each model is correct for the brand they represent, what is certain is that the Skoda is a sportier model that transmits sensations when Toledo is a vehicle of more refined manners. The Octavia besides being a very efficient car, it seems from the first moment we started driving. Its firmest setting of suspensions reduced to a minimum vertical movements of the body. And the direction, with a harder moron, filter less what happens under the wheels. -of to the brake pedal metal surface, such as clutch and THROTTLE comes to this definition, with a shorter and firm path that allows more tactfully modular braking, but we managed shorter distances with Toledo, which premieres ADAM Brake Assist. With all this, Octavia tread is more solid and especially accurate if changes occur support. And in this territory also brings out the Skoda shown one behind more participatory in leading to the mass transfers.
After knowing the intentions of the current president of Volkswagen Group, Bernd Pischetsrieder, to reorient the four basic pillars-Audi, Seat, Volkswagen and Skoda- consortium to define them in such a way that they complement each other (will not be for arrival VW Phaeton to rival the A8), then perhaps understand everything better. Meanwhile, the confusion is even anecdotal between this new version of Toledo, which receives engine 1.8 Turbo 180 hp, and the Skoda Octavia RS, which already takes a few months on the market.

The arrival of this Toledo V5 replacing the 170 hp is a maneuver dictated to trial since sportsmanship that has been assigned to Seat, although the expected complement Seat differentiator within the Group with its "agile chassis", Already mounted Ibiza and Leon Cupra R, it has been halfway through a simple but perfect adaptation of springs and dampers facing increased performance.
If we speak agile chassis, this is the one presented by his behavior the Octavia RS, which frame has been clearly defined by sporting paths, oblivious to what we knew to date on the mark. But this is not reciprocated sportsmanship in its fullness by the gearbox used, 5-speed, when normally in the rest of the group this engine is associated with a change of 6, as in the case of Toledo. Sure, it’s the differentiating factor price of Skoda Octavia and specifically what recommends this technical decision, some might say … if not because it is 2,385 euros! more expensive than Toledo. What a mess.
Without going into whether the personality of each model is correct for the brand they represent, what is certain is that the Skoda is a sportier model that transmits sensations when Toledo is a vehicle of more refined manners. The Octavia besides being a very efficient car, it seems from the first moment we started driving. Its firmest setting of suspensions reduced to a minimum vertical movements of the body. And the direction, with a harder moron, filter less what happens under the wheels. -of to the brake pedal metal surface, such as clutch and THROTTLE comes to this definition, with a shorter and firm path that allows more tactfully modular braking, but we managed shorter distances with Toledo, which premieres ADAM Brake Assist. With all this, Octavia tread is more solid and especially accurate if changes occur support. And in this territory also brings out the Skoda shown one behind more participatory in leading to the mass transfers.