The most desirable hot hatches are often the low mileage, run-out specials. Even the diesel Skoda ones
Once upon a time, nothing quite said bang for your buck like a Skoda vRS. There really wasn’t anything else out there that could rival the fast Skodas for a combination of performance, value, sturdy build quality and plentiful equipment. Maybe they weren’t always the sharpest tools in the shed to drive, though that didn’t matter so much given the price being asked and the power on offer.
Today’s vRS Skodas are very decent - the Octavia especially so - but they don’t represent quite such conspicuous value as before. See the £55k Enyaq Coupe vRS, for example. It might be said that MG offers up the closest thing to a new, electric Skoda vRS from the old school, with its 435hp 4 XPower for less than £40k.
This is a Fabia vRS, the 130hp diesel-powered follow-up to the 180hp Octavia vRS of 2001. Back in the early '00s, there was nothing really like it, miles faster than anything at comparable money. 229lb ft of torque was simply unheard of in a small car, let alone one that cost £13k.proved hugely popular in its few years on sale as a fast, frugal, cheap-to-run alternative to the hot hatch norm.
So much so, in fact, that Skoda didn’t really change anything at all about the first generation between 2003 and 2007. The vRS fan will say that’s because nothing needed any tweaking; keeping things the same also meant the price could stay super competitive. Even when it came to the run-out special edition, the LE, the overhaul was modest. There was Race Blue metallic paint, blue piped leather, red calipers, cruise control and tinted rear windows - that was it.
Slowly but surely, prices for the best vRSes are creeping up. The twincharged replacement never caught the imagination in the same way, not helped by its torrid reliability record, so now the fast Fabias with a turbodiesel are now worth more than younger, lower mileage cars that are turbo and supercharged. Funny old world. As so many of the originals have accrued monster mileages and eventually bills that outweighed their value when they were really cheap, numbers have declined.
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