Skoda has trumped chancellor Alistair Darling by taking steps to ensure its customers do not have to pay VAT on Octavia purchases.
Last Monday (November 24th), Chancellor Darling announced that the rate of VAT paid on goods and services would be reduced from 17.5 per cent to 15 per cent for a limited time, effective [...]
Skoda has livened up the hot hatch market yet further by increasing its standard specification on the sporty Octavia vRS.
From the beginning of September, all Octavia vRS ordered will be fitted with more items as standard.
These will include 18 inch Zenith Alloy wheels and dual zone climate control.
New Skoda owners [...]
Once reviled for its marque, the Skoda has a brand to celebrate as the two millionth Octavia rolled off the Czech production line in Vrchlabí back in April last year.
Then the Octavia won the 2007 Auto Express Driver-power survey ‘Car of the Year’.
The Czechs started to produce the Skoda Octavia (Tour) in 1998 and [...]
What Car? magazine has hailed Skoda’s Octavia estate vehicle as the Best Buy Estate under £15,000.
The model beat the Ford Focus, Vauxhall Astra and Kia Cee’d to the gong at a ceremony held at the Grosvenor House hotel in London.
Available to customers from £12,995, the Octavia 1.6 FSI Classic proves that motorists do not [...]
A motor magazine has handed awards to two of Skoda’s larger models.
The Octavia 4×4 and Scout vehicles were acknowledged with three awards at by the Planet 4×4 publication.
Judges deemed the Octavia 2.0 TDi 4×4 - which picked up the Best Crossover and Best Budget Crossover gongs – to be appealing to those who find [...]