Spy Shots: New Skoda Octavia Combi RS is a Family Man's Golf GTI

Don’t let those tiny wheels with the low-cost hub caps fool you; what you see here is the Combi variant of the new generation of the Skoda Octavia RS (labeled the vRS in Britain), the sedan, or rather liftback version of which, we saw through a series of leaked screenshots from an online car configurator in December. Read more »

Spy Shots: New Skoda Octavia Combi Caught on Public Roads

There's really no point in trying to hide the styling elements of the new generation of the Skoda Octavia Combi since the liftback version has already been formally introduced and we've even seen the station wagon without camouflage (albeit from a distance), however, the Czech carmaker continues to circulate lightly masked prototypes like this one, nabbed earlier in the week. Read more »

Skoda Prices All-New Octavia from £15,990 in the UK

About a month after Skoda began series production of the new Octavia Mk3, the Czech automaker opened the order books in the UK with deliveries to begin on March 16.

The new generation of the Octavia starts from £15,990 for the base 1.2-liter TSI petrol model, with prices rising to £23,240 for the range-topping 2.0-litreTDI diesel connected to a dual clutch DSG transmission.

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Skoda Confirms Six New Model Presentations for 2013, Can You Guess What They Are?

The VW Group's pride and joy from the Czech Republic has plans to release six new models onto the European market in 2013, according to a teaser card published by Skoda France on its social media account. Read more »

Review : 2013 Skoda Octavia

Russian assembly of the third generation of popular Czech model starts in the summer.

With a length of 4614 mm and wheelbase of the new Octavia is 2 686 mm (+108 compared to the previous car). Trunk volume, by contrast, dropped to 590 liters (-15). It is also known that the weight of the car down to 1153 kg (~ 102).

The list of optional equipment Octavia appear adaptive cruise control, automatic on beam tracking system for marking, multimedia system with touch screen 8 "audio Canton 750 W and more.

Skoda Octavia for our country will gather in Nizhny Novgorod in July.

Spy Shots: Get a Close Look at a Thinly Veiled 2013 Skoda Octavia

Over the past few days, we have shared with you two spy videos of the new generation Skoda Octavia, which is due to be revealed online in November ahead of a world premiere at the Geneva Motor Show in March of 2013.

Needless to explain why, video footage of a car traveling on a highway can't offer the same details provided by a close up with a high-quality camera, which is where our spy shooters step in.

These latest scoop pictures afford us our best view of the new Octavia to date, allowing us to decipher reality from illusion, and by illusion, we mean the crafty decals placed on the headlights, the fog lamps, the upper bar of the front grille, the C-column and the rear combination lights by Skoda's people to trick us.

The best way to describe the shape, proportions and styling of the third iteration of the Octavia is a more modern interpretation of the current model with some sharper details here and there such as the front end and the profile window line.

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Scoop: All-New 2013 Skoda Octavia Caught on Camera Again

Here's some fresh spy footage of the of the next generation of Skoda's Octavia compact model, captured only a few days after another YouTube user posted a video of a black prototype with hardly any camouflage.

The silver-colored example seen in this clip offers us an even better look at the Czech carmaker's upcoming notchback model, though keep in mind that the front and rear lights may be covered in phony decals, a practice commonly used lately by the VW Group.

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Scoop: New 2013 Skoda Octavia Mk3 Filmed on the Road with Barely any Camo

Czech carmaker Skoda is wrapping up the development of its highly important Octavia III, as a prototype of the compact model was recorded on the road virtually camouflage-free, with the only parts of the car covered being the rear window corner and the a section of the headlamps.

While not straying too far away from the current model's shape, the third generation Octavia adopts Skoda's smoother design language with a lower and more sharply styled front end.

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Spied: All-New 2013 Skoda Octavia will Share Platform and Engines with New Golf 7

After eight years in the market, it's time for Skoda's successful family notchback to slowly give its place to a brand new Octavia that will make its world premiere sometime next year, either at the Geneva Salon in March or at the Frankfurt Motor Show later on in September.

For the first time, our scoop shooters seized a prototype of the production Octavia Mk3 as the Czech firm's engineers were performing high-speed tests at the Nürburgring track in Germany.

Evidently, it's not east to tell what's going on under the psychedelic-themed camouflage, but we can see that the third generation of Skoda's bread and butter model has a more athletic shape than the current Octavia with a lower front end and a sleeker roofline.

We cannot be completely sure from these images, but it is likely that the new model will keep the Octavia's traditional notchback styling that disguises a hatch tailgate.

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