A Mk2 Octavia vRS is a quick, do-it-all family motor from ￡2000. John Evans offers valuable buying advice on the car with hot VW Golf GTI and sensible Skoda in its DNA. A Golf GTI with a bigger boot: that's often how the Octavia vRS Mk2 of 2005-13 is described. Obviously, there's a lot more to the VW than how many (or how few) suitcases it'll swallow, but that fact is that, until 2009, the Octavia ran the same 197bhp 2.0-litre turbo petrol engine as the Mk5 Golf GTI and, after that date, the same chain-driven 2.0-litre that powered the Mk6 Golf GTI, although still with 197bhp. The diesel-powered Octavia vRS also had the same 167bhp 2.0-litre diesel engine as the Mk5 Golf GT TDI. To cap it all, the model is based on the Golf Mk 5 chassis.
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