Skoda Octavia RS Hatchback test drive since 2009 hatchback

Frozen orange ...

... rolls in the last snow
We know how to ride! And most importantly, we love to show this skill! We are young, reckless and successful. Our age is just beginning. It will then be thorough limousines. In the meantime, four wheels, a hard suspension and the most hound in the gamut of the motor. A pretty girl nearby? Do you want adrenaline? Get it in full. Even with an overkill. Powerful and rapid Ford Focus ST, Skoda Octavia RS and Opel Astra 2.0 Turbo at your service.

Ford Focus ST

at the wheel of the ST version, it is easy to imagine yourself as a super sportsman.
The snowmobile from the focus turned out to be excellent. It remains to pick out the snow from the grate.
Under the hood
Engine: working volume 2522 cm3,
compression degree 9.0: 1,
max. Power 225 liters. With. at 6000 vol./min,
max. moment 320 nm at 4000 rpm/min
Fuel consumption (EU): 6.8/13.8 liters
100 km
Fuel tank volume: 55 l
Maximum volume: 362 l.
For a hatchback, the trunk is not bad. The opening is great and unlimited
   
The number of places 5
Front drive
Suspension
The front is multi -link
The back is multi -link
Gearbox aut. 6th.
Dynamic characteristics
Maximum speed, km/h 241
Acceleration to 100 km/h, from 6.8
common data
The mass of equipment./Full, kg 1392/1860
 
Skoda Octavia RS

Octavia RS combines a violent temper with the comfort of larger cars
The current Octavia RS is infinitely far from the still encountered posterior counterparts of the Dopolkswagen era.
The wing on the back cover crings a massive stern, adding the silhouette of the dynamics.
The formidable muzzle emphasizes the sports character of the machine. Sharki Roth and Schildik on the lattice correspond to the habits of this predator.
The gap in the adapted Skoda is the most impressive. No snow is a hindrance to her.
Under the hood
Engine: working volume 1984 cm3,
compression degree 10.5: 1,
max. Power 200 liters. With. at 5100 about/min,
max. moment 280 nm at 1800 rpm/min
Fuel consumption (EU): 5.9/11.0 l per 100 km
Fuel tank volume: 60 l
Maximum volume: 560 l
The trunk is beyond any competition. Champion in the classroom, despite the opened openings of the opening
The number of places 5
Front drive
Suspension
The front is multi -link
The back is multi -link
Gearbox aut. 6th.
Dynamic characteristics
Maximum speed, km/h 240
Acceleration to 100 km/h, from 7.3
common data
The mass of equipment./Full, kg 1310/1970
 
Opel Astra 2.0 Turbo

The true lines of the machine are almost indistinguishable under a pile of stickers. The curls on the rear law are forced by the driver to tremble continuously when rebuilding to the right.
Opel Astra has good aerodynamics. Confirmation of this is the lack of snow vortices behind the stern.
Under the hood
Engine: working volume 1998 cm3,
compression degree 8.8: 1,
max. Power 170 liters. With. at 5200 vol./min,
max. moment 250 nm at 1950 rpm/min
Fuel consumption (EU): 6.8/12.9 liters per 100 km
Fuel tank volume: 52 l
Maximum volume: 350 l.
The trunk for cars of this class is quite roomy, but the opening is very limited by oblique lines of the rear lights
The number of places 5
Front drive
Suspension
The front is independent
The rear is independent
Gearbox fur. 6th.
Dynamic characteristics
Maximum speed, km/h 217
Acceleration to 100 km/h, from 8.5
common data
A mass of equipment./Full, kg 1310/1850
 
Who is what
Ford Focus ST
The price of a tested car is $ 29 950
Max. Power 225 liters. With. at 6000 vol./min
Max. speed 241 km/h
Acceleration 0100 km/h 6.8 s
 
Skoda Octavia RS
The price of a tested car is $ 34,200
Max. Power 200 liters. With. at 5100 vol./min
Max. speed 240 km/h
Acceleration 0100 km/h 7.3 s
 
Opel Astra 2.0 Turbo
The price of a tested car is $ 31 820
Max. Power 170 liters. With. at 5400 vol./min
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b217 km/h
Acceleration 0100 km/h 8.5 s
 

Safety
Ford Focus ST
The result of the Euro NCAP crash test in 2004
Front 16 (100%)
BOK 18 (100%)
General score 35
The Focus II crashed into the round five earned two of the four stars for protecting pedestrians and four out of five in the section of children's safety. Ford is worthy of imitation!
 
Skoda Octavia RS
The result of the Euro NCAP crash test in 2004
Front 11 out of 16 (69%)
BOK 16 out of 18 (89%)
General score 27
Skoda, created on the MK5 Golf platform, inherited good protection when hit. The driver’s legs were bumping the very little, and in the disciplines the pedestrian and the protection of children in Octavia are the same indicators as Focus MK II
 
Opel Astra 2.0 Turbo
The result of the Euro NCAP crash test in 2004
Front 14 out of 16 (88%)
BOK 18 (100%)
General score 34
Opel perfectly opposes the frontal impact and even better side. Very low the level of exposure to the driver's head. Astra earned only one star from four for protecting the legs of a pedestrian and four out of five in the protection of children.

How they will look
Ford Focus ST

The enthusiasm in each line of this animal pressed to the ground. The silhouette pleases the eye
 
Aluminum steering knitting needles make it visually weightless. Every element of the Ford Focus St.
Ford Sidushka is beautiful in itself and is equipped with a convenient crushed roller
The rings around the instruments are a good delimiter. The graduation is optimal. The speedometer and tachometer are very different in appearance. It is very comfortable
The central console of Ford is designed in a family style. It should be recognized as the best
Skoda Octavia RS

In recent years, Skoda has created a characteristic family face. Equally solid and rapid
 
The finish with aluminum inserts is extremely successful. Two -color seats emphasize the individuality of the machine
Skoda seats sample of lateral support. From the side of the pillow, a pocket for little things perched. Household note
Divisions and a small digitization of Skoda devices illuminated by a dim green light make it difficult to read the readings. And there is no time to look at the hood two hundred forces!
Skoda console demonstrates the unity of aesthetic perception and user comfort. Everything spoils the crushed knob of the transmissions

Opel Astra 2.0 Turbo

Astra consists of continuous curved lines. But they, it turns out, can weave a laconic silhouette
 
The interior of Opel Astra GT is not much different from a standard machine. Opel liked very comfortable buttons on the steering wheel and a short handle of the KP selector
The Opel Astra seats transmit tremors from road bumps less than others. The armrest here is fixed on the back, which means always at hand
Opel laconic shield is easy for perception. Grading is convenient for reading. Yellow backlighting is contrasting, but not irritating the eye. Everything is successful here
The central console in the corporate identity. Many different buttons and little information. At night, illuminated buttons look prettier, but it does not make them more convenient
 
OUTSIDE
How do they look? Yes, great: thoroughly and a little aggressively. True, aggression becomes noticeable only in such a company as this one, where the triple turns into militarily irreconcilable rivals in the struggle for the souls and hearts of consumers. All representatives of long -established brands. In this regard, in their design you can not notice a drop of admiration for momentary fashion. They are classics. Cognitiveness from the face, thanks to a long -formed style characteristics, is clear and instant. However, Mercedes is also identified by its class belonging, because the pharyn-far like C-Class has no one else in the modern DaimlerchrySler line. The Audi style in relation to the family hierarchy is less determined, and in conditions of insufficient visibility, the four can be mistaken for an older member of the family of four rings. The face of the BMW treshka demonstrates the characteristic of Bangle's handwriting, and its personality is easily manifested. The side is simply beauty in its true sense. What lines, what silhouettes! Strange, but German love for order no longer strangles emotions. However, due to the high window sill Audi line, they look a little heavy, and the impression of excessively brutal form does not even save the image of the sports car. Another thing is Mercedes. The swift and ease of its lines will remind both S and SL, while each owner will see something of his own, although necessarily belonging to the signs of the family and its style. The BMW profile is, of course, the extremely minimalized front overhang and the reverse tilt of the rear rack S. behind all stylists, as if conspiracy, put a fat point in recognition using the shape and pattern of the rear lights.
INSIDE
In a reasonable German design, it has always been accepted: everything is identical inside and outside, and it seems that the exterior and the interior drew and did the same designer. Finally, the American Bangle pulled up to this level. However, this does not impoverish perception. On the contrary, it only enhances the feeling of integrity, reliability and comfort. Despite the fact that the architecture of the instrument panels is clearly T-shaped and organized according to the unified ergonomic scheme of the panel are different. Different exactly as much as these cars are different from the outside. Here are the steering wheel, their design clearly works out the given topic: Mercedes, sports charisma in BMW and congenital intelligence in Audi.
 
SUMMARY
What can I say? Trust your intuition and eye. In the end, the style of a small sedan with clearly expressed sports charisma is corrected precisely for individuality. Yours, including.
Hot hatchbacks and snow road things at first glance incompatible. But driving schools capable of giving winter driving skills are enough (read about one of them in the material about the Quattro school). It is interesting to drive these cars, they are in constant demand. In the yard spring, their time comes, and we decided to organize worthy wires to the last snow.
ERGONOMICS
All our lighters are not new. The interiors are familiar and many times common by our hands and eyes. Nevertheless, we note the brightest details.
We open the long orange door. It is heavy, and open it from the inside, so as not to melt the neighboring car, you need a neatly ordinary business for a two -doors. We look into the gigantic opening. Immediately, we note that we can easily hide and shift the seat with one light motion to get into the rear seat in Ford, we return it back to the other.
Aluminum pedals and a box of the box are cheerfully played inside the Ford Salon. In the center of the torpedo, an additional unit of the instrument temperature, oil pressure and boost sticks!
Dense seats comfortably take a rider. There are enough adjustments. The only inconvenience is far to reach for the middle rack behind the belt. A hook or loop would not have interfered here. Anyway! The main thing to steer was convenient.
The steering wheel is great. With three metallized knitting needles and thick, well glued to the hands of a rim. Take it and feel the charge of Vitamin C, flowing directly from under the orange hood. And at the same time, light vibration of the engine. Not too much, really annoying. A convenient handbrake is an important touch for lovers of artificial drift.
Devices and control buttons of Ford are simple and convenient. As, however, in the next tested Skoda.
Skoda Octavia RS, of course, is the most spacious. The places behind and in length and in height are more than enough. Moreover, a capacious trunk has been attached.
Two letters RS added to the name added aluminum inserts on a dashboard and a central console. And how did these inserts come to the face! The gray and boring torpedo of simple versions, RSCA looks like a slender set of comfortable areas. Forms have gained dynamics and expressiveness. Plasticity of polished aluminum lines emphasizes the excellent work of designers. Salon is comfortable, modern and hospitable. So all Skodam!
Two -color seats harmonize with the torpedo. They have pronounced support. Almost like real sports. The seats are hard, but the landing is comfortable. With ergonomics, the driver’s place in the concern’s products never had problems.
Skoda’s steering wheel is good. He has a convenient section, but I touched the protruding hub with a quick steering, scaring around with a sudden bi-bip.
Skoda owner of the most convenient internal door handles. The external mirrors of our entire trinity turned out to be extremely convenient. Both for adjustments and location. Everyone is large.
Opel seems to be the least pronounced fighter. Opel Astra GTC would have approached this test more, but we did not find this.
At first glance, his fiery nature does not particularly give out anything. Having looked closely, we note the characteristic details. The three -spoke steering wheel is so logical and simple in shape that it can be considered a model of conciseness and harmony. It overlaps the devices less than others.
Astra’s seats are slightly softer than that of competitors, and they have slightly sophisticated adjustment. It should be noted that Opel has more places for the feet of the rear passengers.
Opelian shield has only one small device, which is why it only wins in perception. Astra torpedo is standard, like a console. The set of familiar, not very comfortable handles and switches is preserved here. However, we will not focus on them. The main drive.
DYNAMICS
Not forgetting that your companion may dizzy, we will try each of the handsome men in business. Since we still want to stay intact, we will take care of the companion: are you fastened? They rushed!
Half a liter of extra motor is a large business! In addition to the symbolic meaning (it is after half a liter that the grief of the drivers wakes up a craving for tragic exploits), the advantage of twenty-five horsepower cannot be noticed. Ford is objectively the most frisky. In addition, he has the most responsive gas pedal. No delays even in the range when turbo does not blow. Budget is accompanied by a noticeable hiss under the hood and the deviation of the indicator arrow. There is still no time to look at it: our groovy citrus, receiving a second wind, immediately rests with his nose in front of the ride. The city is poorly suitable for racing.
An attempt to stand on the racing highway ended with an impressive snowdrift. Not one step back! We try to play the snowman and gently plow the nose of a half -meter height of the snow shaft. Work is not at all for such a machine, but with the disconed ESP (press and hold a button), this car hung with low spoilers slowly crawled three hundred meters of virgin lands and took us to solid ground. It turns out that he has good cross -country ability. And the apron remained intact. Winter to the hard for the nose of Ford Winter? We cleaned the grate from the snow, and went in our own way.
The box at Ford switches easily, and the gear rates are perfectly selected. Despite the fact that a couple of times I twisted the motor, the program still easily stuck.
Focus brakes well too. Disc brakes in a circle of an indispensable attribute of any serious car. Ford corresponds to this level.
Noise accompaniment at the focus manifests itself mainly with severe gas presses. The wheels are also audible, and in general I would like more sound insulation, but within the framework of our genre, the whistle of the wind is rather a plus than a minus.
Skoda Octavia RS on paper loses exactly half a second in the acceleration of Ford. Subjectively, they go to the nostril in the nostril. Largely thanks to the wonderful motor of the turbo FSI, which is able to realize the maximum torque from 1800 revolutions. Here, turbocharged soft pickup is not so felt, but there is still a frantic craving from the bottoms familiar along the Audi A3. As a result, almost similar Ford acceleration with a quieter sound of the motor.
The gear rates of the shkoda boxes are also well selected. And the shift handle upset. And before it was noted that the flat sidewalls of the handles make it uncomfortable. In more sports versions, this drawback crawls very visibly. And so you hold on to her, and this does not work out natural and laid -back grip. Four faces are interfered all the time, and the pen seems square.
Obviously, the RS version needs a simple, albeit less stylish, but more spherical handle. At the same time, on a flat road, the motor thrust allows, even turning on the fifth instead of the third, to continue dynamic movement. Turbo FSI great power!
The handbrake in Octavia is quite shifted back, and it is inconvenient to operate on a spectacular turn. However, not a single factory instruction provides for such a procedure.
In steep turns, developed lateral support was very useful. The body practically does not move relative to the pillows. The passenger can not even hold on to the handrail, especially the passenger.
Thick front racks of the roof, although they inspire confidence in their unbending strength, are stronger than others from the review.
Of course, Opel loses to everyone at the start. At the same time, its acceleration is very confident, although you can’t call it recklessly. This has a very tangible positive side of Opel is much more economical. Its consumption was an average of a couple of liters less than that of competitors. And this is a lot in this class.
The Opelian box pleased with the clarity of the inclusion and the correct handle. And she alerted with too weak a ring of blocking the rear speed. He pressed his fingers slightly, and standing behind you at the traffic lights already sees reverse lights, with all the ensuing circumstances from here.
From the point of view of sound insulation, Opel is not inferior to competitors. Vibrations in it are the least, but the wheels are listened. True, toothy and studded winter tires are heard in all three machines. In summer, on soft wide slides, the sound picture will be completely different.
CONTROLLABILITY
Over the four months of winter, studded rubber traditionally rises the asphalt of our highways to the previous layer. The ruts in the left row the phenomenon is universal and especially manifested in early spring. How will our experimental react to them?
It turned out to be quite good. The champion for ignoring the longitudinal grooves was Skoda. Movement on them will not cause a deviation of the steering wheel or lateral displacements. Octavia simply does not notice them.
The suspension was not noticed. Skoda is moderately comfortable.
Ford holder of the most sensitive steering. Its wide wheels transfer any longitudinal irregularities to the steering wheel. However, the car does not leave the trajectory. Just the steering wheel is much more informative than the rest. This cannot be called discomfort rather, the key to full control with intense drive. The natural fee for stable and full information content is a rather strict suspension. This is the law of life: if you want 100%control on 100%comfort, forget.
Opel was also not going to scour along the ruts. Speed \u200b\u200bcorrection was required for him. I pleased the naturalness of these movements. Here, as in everything else, the Astra is closer to ordinary cars and is more suitable for the driver with little experience. Everything is familiar.
Compared to other Ford, it looks like a front -wheel drive classic. Read all the weight on the front wheels, on the steering wheel. A light back always follows in front. Strong gas in the bend causes a retaliatory demolition, which is very easy to dose the engine speed (thanks to accurate gas). It is easy to achieve a controlled sliding of the front axle and easily fend it off. This shell is very suitable for regular exercises and developing the first skills. At least passengers will not get bored.
Skoda has similar qualities, only slightly damped. It will not allow so frankly crawling out in the bend largely thanks to the center of gravity shifted back. Nevertheless, here the driver will receive a lot of emotions if he wants to perform a snake between the unfortunate neighbors by stream or in attempts to overtake the lost time.
Opel will not force you to extract a modest supply of sports skills from your memory. It allows you to go quickly, very quickly, but to the same extent easy in the steering wheel. The non -clogged ESP simply does not bring the car to all kinds of demolition or slippers. Electronic gas itself will remove excess ardor. And the quiet crack of brake automation will tie the car into the desired turn. And all!
And where is the drive? You just ask you. Between extreme and comfort, Opel chooses the second. To someone and so much adrenaline is more than enough. As they say, everyone according to his abilities.
SUMMARY
And everything is very simple. Ford Cavor Orange from the first to the last breath, a real incendiary mixture. In addition, he is the cheapest. An experienced driver will be able to squeeze a lot of pleasure from him. The main thing is that the companions do not get out of the orbits.
Skoda is more comfortable, spacious, most expensive and half a hundred below in terms of recklessness.
Opel is another extreme. In everything except dynamics, the usual car, and even a new girl can easily cope with it. She will not be scared to give such a horse if the walk under the roar of the turbo engine will be continued. Spring after all!
Text Eugene Khapov
Photo by Leonid Grandfather
 

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