Thought you might bite on that one ;). Skoda interiors are ahead of Tesla Model S ones, I'll give you that one...and don't forget my other car's a Fiat +++

Had a couple of Octavia vRS estates as company cars and they were pretty good, not of the same build quality as my D2, but certainly not that much worse than my RS6, which again falls some way short in quaility of materials etc compared to the D2. The D2 seems to be the last Audi where a lot of the decisions on how they were designed and built were by engineers and not accountants.+++

Oh and as a Scot I was very proud when Top Gear described Skodas as "Volkswagens for cheapskates":ROFL:

Though nice that particular one is not a V6 it seems:-(

https://totalcarcheck.co.uk/FreeCheck?regno=wj62tzt

though they did do one+++

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classif...=SUPERB&page=1


which does seem to have switchgear etc which may appear familiar to owners of RS6s of similar vintage;)

Maybe they thought they'd sell 8 of them? :D

You haven't been down here recently!
The Aussie $ is buying about 55p at present.
My S8's were around $220,000 new, so that's £121,000!
At the roughly 60p value of the dollar at the time that's £132,000...
What were they there - £70,000odd?

My Dad moved from Audi to Skoda many years ago. He's on his 4th now which is a '17 Octavia and you can still notice the difference in quality of materials used. His previous was the Superb and it was only slightly smaller than the D3. I don't know if the boot is standard but it was double hinged to open like a saloon or hatch.

https://youtu.be/KJZ5IgzI6xo?t=19s

Oh, just to add the Superb was probably one of the easiest cars to replace a headlight bulb as half the back could be removed for access +++

That's cool.

And there is something cool about the 'sleeper' VAG cars. Passat W8, the old Vento VR6, Passat/Passat CC R36, the above Skoda and even an Audi S4/S6 and D2 S8. They have an air of 'you don't know unless you know'.

I believe a FE S8 in 2002 was £59,740 new but I think the Avus Silver was a bit more money than the other colours?! I am sure Ian will come along and put us straight!

I priced up my PF (1998) S8 from the 1998 price list (which I still have) and that was about £70K new, though it did have a "few" options.

I think that's closer to the mark when new than £59k, though I don't have any data to hand to confirm that...

Remember there were a lot of changes around that time to the taxation of new cars, though I can't recall exactly when, but it largely meant reductions.

Edit: Just found the price list, mine was £72,254.22 "On The Road" Price including VAT at 17.5% (and delivery/tax etc. at £645.)