You can go 200 mph in a Skoda, if you dare (pictures)
Even Skoda can push a car past 200 mph.
Drew Stearne
For over 16 years Drew has been producing video content on technology, video games and entertainment but now spends his days looking at, talking about, or indeed driving, fast cars.
The vRS sub brand turned 10 in 2011.
Rather than celebrate with a special edition, Skoda decided to get ambitious.
It decided to take on the fearsome Bonneville Speed Week...
...and set a world record for a 2.0-litre forced induction car.
This very Octavia can, they reckon, manage over 250 mph.
However, at the event it managed a world record 227.080 mph.
Its driver, Richard Meaden, is an experienced driver.
XCAR's Alex, is not.
That aside, he hit 151 mph down Bruntingthrope Proving Ground's 2-mile runway.
The car is completely stripped out to make it as light, therefore as fast, as possible.
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