Skoda presents the new Octavia Combi

Like all the new cars being presented in these days it will also be at the Geneva Motor Show and the majority of car is already known from the sedan, meaning the only changes happen outside and in the rear which is of course bigger. Click here to see the sedan.

The new Octavia Combi is 90mm longer and 45mm wider than its predecessor, and has a wheelbase which is also longer by 11mm. The boot has 610liters, which is a record in its class, and can get to 1.740liters when the rear seats are folded.

Skoda offers the same four petrol and four diesel engines available in the sedan and the Combi 4×4 with a new four-wheel drive system (5th-generation Haldex clutch). The GreenLine Version reaches a fuel consumption of only 3.4l/100km and CO2 emissions of only 89g/km.

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2013 Skoda Octavia - Another teaser and a render

There isn't much more i can say about the new Skoda Octavia. We already saw clear pictures of the sedan and the station wagon in Chile, and now Skoda released another teaser of the car.

Like we reported earlier the new Octavia is based on the MQB platform used by the new Audi A3 and Volkswagen Golf so it will share the engines with those cars. The public presentation will happen very soon, so stay tuned.

Source of the render: Automobile-Magazine.fr

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New pictures of the 2013 Skoda Octavia and Octavia Combi

The Skoda Octavia most be one of the worst kept secrets in the automotive world. Every two or three days we get to see new pictures, and this images are the best ones.

The pictures were taken by Alejandro Cifuentes in Chile and revealed by the AutoForum.cz website. In them we can see more clearly the shape of both the liftback and the station wagon.

We still have no confirmation of anything about the new Octavia, but at least we know its appearance and we can speculate, besides assuming, it will use the same platform and engines as the new Audi A3 and Volkswagen Golf.

Source: AutoForum.cz

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