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Skoda, oh Skoda. You're just so
cool. Maybe it's the fact that it's a brand that we don't get in these United States, but Skoda's rebadged
Volkswagens, in particular the new
Octavia vRS shown here, are just different enough from the hum-drum VWs on our shores that the Czech brand seems strangely desirable. Maybe we're just craving forbidden fruit.
This short,
minute-long spot covers the new vRS in a world of excess, where strollers ride on 26-inch wheels, lawnmowers feature V8 engines and ice cream cones are the size of toddlers. As things often go in these ads, the Octavia vRS draws the eyes of passerby that are seemingly use to things far more ridiculous than a reasonably priced Czech sedan. In reality, the Octavia should be fairly familiar to American buyers. It uses the same 2.0-liter, turbocharged four-pot found in the
Volkswagen GTI and
Jetta GLI, with 217 horsepower, and sits on the same platform as the
Audi A3 and
Volkswagen Golf. Take a look at the full spot,
below.
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