Hello and welcome to PowerDrift!
Now, two years ago when I drove the Octavia RS230
I called it your next car purchase, if you remember.
In fact, I recommended it big time to
everyone knowing very well that
good cars with internal combustion engines,
their days were numbered.
Here we are two years later
with my claim having stood the test of time.
Because it's now a fact
that the next iteration will be a hybrid.
So the question actually still stands.
Can the new RS245
be your next purchase?
Alright, let's get started!
Let's keep in mind that
this is a car with its horsepower number in its name,
in the title, which is
RS245.
Every time that happens,
you can be assured
that when you step on the gas in such a car
the experience is going to be wholesome.
I'm gonna add into that experience
by turning on launch control
which is by turning off
the traction control,
putting this into sports mode.
Are we in sports mode? Yes!
And now stepping on the gas,
launch control active. Here we go!
Two litres of inline four-cylinder.
No torque steer happening in RS245
as against to the RS230
because of the electromechanical differential on the front axle.
Good speeds doing already,
launch controls
always being fun.
This car, of course,
it's doing 0-100 in about 6.41 seconds.
Point to be remembered is
that this has a DQ380,
seven-speed DSG, not a six-speed DSG
as was the case in the RS230.
Now, 380 essentially means
this transmission is officially rated for 380Nm of torque.
The torque on this car is 370Nm.
Of course, if you go about slapping performance parts onto this car
and start extracting about 400 - 450Nm of torque,
I think this same very transmission will still take it.
Okay, back to driving then.
What we are to care about is,
how the skoda RS245 handles in corners.
So I'm about to enter a slalom course right here
on the airstrip, which is gonna tell me
how the electromechanical differential really works
and it works because, well,
it is torque vectoring between the front two wheels.
The earlier RS230 wasn't really doing that
and wasn't doing that because
it did not have a clutch pack on the front axle
to be doing it.
What it did was, basically, brake vectoring
and hence ran out of brake pads
if you really did a whole lot of cornering.
The handling seems to be pretty nice
I almost seem to missed turns, corners.
By the way, since Raunak
entered my video unannounced,
it kind of threw me off.
The thing that we should really be starting off
to talk about the RS245
is something that would make the car appealing
even to those who haven't heard its name ever before
and that would be
the interiors of this car!
Now, of course, this amount of torque vectoring ensures
that, though the car is nose heavy,
that there will be little understeer
to compete with the BMW's rear-wheel-drive's... Whoa!
You really shouldn't have dropped that name!
What name?
BMW, specifically the BMW 330i.
Why not?
Okay, answer me this.
How much does the RS245 cost?
Well, the RS230 it costed just Rs 25 lakh
And the RS245?
This is a CBU,
that one was a CKD,
so this is going to cost you more.
You're not giving me a number at all!
Well, what do you want?
I mean the, the next iteration of this car is a hybrid,
we know that, it's got 1.4 litres of engine,
80 kilowatts of, what, electric motor.
So let me figure out exactly what you're trying to say.
You're saying that
this can be your next purchase?
This could be your next car purchase!
Okay, Rohan's train of thought
isn't really very clear.
I think what's coming in the way of him
recommending this wholeheartedly
is the fact that
this costs in excess of Rs 40 lakh
on road.
But can this be your next car purchase?
We're going to answer that comprehensively
when we comprehensively review this
very soon!
Stay tuned to PowerDrift
and thank you for watching!
I'll catch you on the next one!
Alright guys,
here's what I'm gonna do,
and this is not part of the script,
nothing here today was a part of the script.
By the way, so sorry for this very short,
not so elaborate video
and that's because (of) very little time here.
What I'm gonna do with my crew in the car is
I'm going to put this in launch control,
very quickly once again in sports mode.
Vikas please have your seat belt on.
Yeah what's the launch control sequence in your next car purchase?
Well,
shift it into sports mode
by pressing the RS button
that cycles through the different drive modes
then traction control off.
It says deactivated.
Now step on the gas...
on the gas pedal with the brake pedal on.
Launch control program active!
We take off guys!