Bit the Bullet..

vectra

And ordered my new Car today

Vrs Tdi in white with Leather option :cool:







Roll on 21st August ..!!

Big thanks th R.O.R for all his assistance in making my decision.

Cookie_Monster

Roll on 21st August ..!!

Long wait

tobsey

Is that even a gauranteed date? Nice choice by the way, best of luck with it.

staker

I'll keep an eye out for it. Nice and rare.

EPM

Lovely!

It's going to be an agonising wait...

Henry Ford III

Car thieves nationwide are now on high alert

Max Power1

Now you'll have to subscribe and change your username :P

Berty

One in Donegal but no leather if you couldn't wait.

http://www.carzone.ie/search/Skoda/Octavia/VRS-2.0-/201012197325265/advert?channel=CARS

Neilw

Why buy a new car in August, wait til Jan 2011?

Lord Nikon

The back looks the same as the old one.

Max Power1

Neilw wrote: »

Why buy a new car in August, wait til Jan 2011?

Its the Octavia - cant be waiting that long surely!

Midnight_EG

Neilw wrote: »

Why buy a new car in August, wait til Jan 2011?

It really doesn't matter when you buy a car, if you have to resort to the first 2 numbers on the reg for vanity, well then you need checking out!

CONM

Midnight_EG wrote: »

It really doesn't matter when you buy a car, if you have to resort to the first 2 numbers on the reg for vanity, well then you need checking out!

I've never bought a new car so i don't succumb to reg vanity, but i think that to buy a new car in the second half of the year is mad. If he waits an extra few months he'll have a newer more valuable car for the same money

R.O.R

Vectra has a disability exemption for part of the cost of the car and I think that dictates the delivery date of the car.

I've a couple of DSG Elegance models on order since the start of Feb. One is now in shipping but the other isn't being built until next week so is still 3-4 weeks away. Manual's are coming through in about 10 weeks now they have sorted the supply issue with the radio.

unkel

Well wear (once you get it)

Eoin

Edit - thread cleaned up. No more trolling please.

vectra

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Car thieves nationwide are now on high alert

SHUT UP..!!! :D

I am gone past that stage now to be honest.
Good quality alarm going into it anyway

Thanks for the best wishes guys,
As R.O.R said.
I have to wait until 21st August as I qualify for the disabled drivers scheme and that is my change date.
Any sooner and I have to repay 80% of the allowance I got for this car :eek:

That would knock the fun out of it

robtri

nice motor.... fair play dude......

enjoy the ride

Crazy Taxi

Well done and good luck, full leather option is a complete waste of 3k, I have it in my Octy and its only the facings of the seats which are genuine dead cow, the rest of it is artificial leather (or Leatherette as it was once called) and it doesn't wear as well as the real stuff. I'll go with the standard half leather next time.

vectra

Crazy Taxi wrote: »

Well done and good luck, full leather option is a complete waste of 3k, I have it in my Octy and its only the facings of the seats which are genuine dead cow, the rest of it is artificial leather (or Leatherette as it was once called) and it doesn't wear as well as the real stuff. I'll go with the standard half leather next time.

I only paid 680 euro for it..

Crazy Taxi

vectra wrote: »

I only paid 680 euro for it..

I paid almost 3k for full leather back in 06 on an Octy Elegance. Maybe the VRs comes with a half leather interior as standard so you only had to pay for an "upgrade". Well done either way.

vectra

Crazy Taxi wrote: »

I paid almost 3k for full leather back in 06 on an Octy Elegance. Maybe the VRs comes with a half leather interior as standard so you only had to pay for an "upgrade". Well done either way.

Yeah.
The standard seats are half leather.

Mr Benevolent

Is it a DSG OP?

unkel

Crazy Taxi wrote: »

I paid almost 3k for full leather back in 06 on an Octy Elegance.

Paying 3k for leather on a 20k car is madness!

vectra

Confab wrote: »

Is it a DSG OP?

No
DSG was out of my financial reach this time round.:(
But hey
with 170bhp & 6spd box who is complaining

Preset No.3

Just throwing it out there.....a potential for the Garda when their fleet replacement eventually comes?

challengemaster

Preset No.3 wrote: »

Just throwing it out there.....a potential for the Garda when their fleet replacement eventually comes?

Seriously.... you'd swear the country doesn't waste enough money already.. in a recession you want to give them 30k cars? Are you insane, by any chance?

vectra

challengemaster wrote: »

Seriously.... you'd swear the country doesn't waste enough money already.. in a recession you want to give them 30k cars? Are you insane, by any chance?

But they would not be paying 30k would they??
Probably about 15 ish without vat/vrt,,bulk purchase discount.

Berty

challengemaster wrote: »

Seriously.... you'd swear the country doesn't waste enough money already.. in a recession you want to give them 30k cars? Are you insane, by any chance?

The cars are 25,600 in a dealership so buying in bulk should knock 15-20% off the top of that again.

Not an expensive fleet and great for GTC at the very least.

vectra

Berty wrote: »

The cars are 25,600 in a dealership.

What dealership are they available at that price??

Berty

vectra wrote: »

What dealership are they available at that price??

Noel Deasy, Cork.

Actually €25,400 after checking the e-mail

Noel Deasy Dealership wrote:

The best price I can offer you the Race Blue Octavia 2.0 Tdi Vrs is €25,400 on a straight deal.

SV

TDI, eugh.

Looks gorgeous though!

roosterman71

Can I ask, what would the price of this car be if I were to go and try buy one? Note: I don't wanna know what the OP paid, just what would the asking price be if someone went to a dealer to buy it

R.O.R

SV wrote: »

TDI, eugh.

Looks gorgeous though!

Cough***TDI***Cough

Berty

roosterman71 wrote: »

Can I ask, what would the price of this car be if I were to go and try buy one? Note: I don't wanna know what the OP paid, just what would the asking price be if someone went to a dealer to buy it

See my post above ^^^^ EDIT Asking price is €28,000

Noel Deasy Dealership - Cork wrote:

The best price I can offer you the Race Blue Octavia 2.0 Tdi Vrs is €25,400 on a straight deal.

Autostation quoted me on Tuesday at €26,000 on a blue one as well, sitting in the showroom but Im sure you could get him down to €25,400.

If one dealer can go the others should be able to.

The dealer in Navan will have a black VRs in around the middle of June, found this out Tuesday as well.

Berty

Dealer in Banteer Co Cork will have two VRs ex demo cars due in a few weeks. These cars were/are currently being driven by Skoda head office.

One is Silver, I think the other is blue.

You should get a better price on these as well.

Gophur

Anyone any idea on the lead-time for a "different" SKODA Superb?

R.O.R

Gophur wrote: »

Anyone any idea on the lead-time for a "different" SKODA Superb?

Define "different"

The dealer in Banteer have a 2.0Tdi 140bhp Elegance in Black with Cream interior in stock. Should have been a 170 so it's free stock.

Berty

R.O.R wrote: »

The dealer in Banteer have a 2.0Tdi 140bhp Elegance in Black with Cream interior in stock. Should have been a 170 so it's free stock.

What does that mean, "free stock"?

R.O.R

Berty wrote: »

What does that mean, "free stock"?

Not ordered specifically for someone.

Fairly rare for any dealer or manufacturer to have any free stock this year.

2 Espressi

Brave choice of colour V, but if anything, it should make it even more of a sleeper!
Bonus cool points if you decide to remap it!

I should make a trip to Banteer again, if only to see what I'd get for the van...

Gophur

R.O.R wrote: »

Define "different"

............

Different = 2.0 Tdi, 170BHP AWD

It's for Jan 2011.


(Skoda Ireland don't have one, never did, and don't anticipate having one! Unless someone like me places an order? )

R.O.R

Gophur wrote: »

Different = 2.0 Tdi, 170BHP AWD

It's for Jan 2011.


(Skoda Ireland don't have one, never did, and don't anticipate having one! Unless someone like me places an order? )

There was a 4x4 Estate in Phoenix when I was there a few weeks ago!

I'd allow 16 weeks for delivery on that. Should be quicker, but no harm if it sits in the Skoda compound over Christmas so it's ready for you in Jan.

SV

R.O.R wrote: »

Cough***TDI***Cough

TestTransmission

SV wrote: »

Shhhh u,don't be slagging Skoda

Happy motoring with that
White cars are great at looking clean in the dry periods, the dust doesn't show on them at all.

SV

TestTransmission wrote: »

Shhhh u,don't be slagging Skoda

Nothing wrong with Skoda, Skoda are excellent..it's the diesel I have a problem with!

voteforpedro

CONM wrote: »

I've never bought a new car so i don't succumb to reg vanity, but i think that to buy a new car in the second half of the year is mad. If he waits an extra few months he'll have a newer more valuable car for the same money

sorry to go off topic but this is the weirdest quote!!! august is only 3 months away. If we all waited 'a few' extra months nothing would ever be sold lol! By this ideology, why not buy the car this time next year coz it'll be a year newer than now lol:rolleyes:

All the best with it OP!!! VERY JEALOUS:cool:

challengemaster

CONM wrote: »

I've never bought a new car so i don't succumb to reg vanity, but i think that to buy a new car in the second half of the year is mad. If he waits an extra few months he'll have a newer more valuable car for the same money

And if we all keep waiting for what's around the corner, we'd all have no cars and just keep waiting for something newer.

TestTransmission

SV wrote: »

Nothing wrong with Skoda, Skoda are excellent..it's the diesel I have a problem with!

that skoda has only 10bhp less than mine tho!probably has more actually tbh with the age of mine now.
very jealous OP,love the colour!
Make sure to join up on Briskoda

vectra

SV wrote: »

TDI, eugh.

Looks gorgeous though!

Will drive gorgeous as well
170 HP EEC @ 4,200 rpm;
350 Nm @ 1,750 rpm
maximum speed (mph): 140, maximum speed
acceleration 0-62 mph (secs): 8.3

And a very quiet engine to go with it

Happy days

R.O.R wrote: »

Define "different"

The dealer in Banteer have a 2.0Tdi 140bhp Elegance in Black with Cream interior in stock. Should have been a 170 so it's free stock.

They actually have a 09 Black Superb with cream and 170bhp in stock

TestTransmission wrote: »

that skoda has only 10bhp less than mine tho!probably has more actually tbh with the age of mine now.
very jealous OP,love the colour!
Make sure to join up on Briskoda

In already
Thanks for the good luck :cool: