Octaviaaaaaaaaargh, Part 2

Okay, stop sniggering at the back there. The fastest two litre, forced induction production car in the world is a Skoda Octavia vRS with the mother of all turbochargers, scaffolding in the back and a set of moon discs on the wheel. evo journalist Dickie Meaden drove it to a two-way average of 227.070mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats last Friday, 19 August. Well done, that man.

Well done in fact to everyone involved in the project. Skoda says they did it to mark 10 years of the vRS in Britain. I think that’s not a reason so much as an excuse. It’s just a really cool and completely pointless thing to do. Anyway, hats off to Skoda. You done a good thing.