Skoda Octavia is a small family car produced by the Czech car manufacturer Skoda Auto since the end of 1996.
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14 Facts About Skoda Octavia
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Four generations of the modern-era Skoda Octavia model have been introduced to date, delivered with five-door liftback or five-door estate styles only.
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Facelifted Skoda Octavia featured a 4x4 wheel drive version both for the estate and more popular liftback models, and used the Haldex Traction clutch, like other Volkswagen Group A platform based cars .
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Skoda Octavia made a limited number of 100 WRC Replica Cars worldwide in 2002.
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Special version of the Skoda Octavia, lengthened by 8 cm, was produced in 2001 and only intended for government purposes.
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Supposedly, Skoda Octavia delivered only 25 automobiles to the state administration, five of them in the facelifted version.
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Skoda Octavia has been used in the European Touring Car Championship, the World Rally Championship and the FIA 2-Litre World Rally Cup.
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Second-generation Skoda Octavia was introduced in March 2004, based on the Volkswagen Group A5 platform used by other Volkswagen Group cars, such as the Audi A3 Mk2, Volkswagen Golf Mk5, Volkswagen Jetta Mk5, SEAT Leon Mk2, etc.
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In India, the second-generation Skoda Octavia was marketed as the Laura to distinguish it from the first generation.
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Two four-wheel-drive versions of the Skoda Octavia are made: the 4x4 and the Scout, both featuring a Haldex Traction four-wheel-drive system, based on a computer-controlled clutch centre coupling.
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The Skoda Octavia offers a Phone Box, a storage compartment for the mobile phone with a planar antenna at the bottom of the compartment, which permits a so-called inductive exterior antenna connection.
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In early 2014, Skoda Octavia revealed the Scout; it has raised suspension, plastic cladding, and four-wheel drive.
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In early 2017, the third-generation facelift Skoda Octavia arrived in the showrooms, with the main visible difference being the split front headlights.
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Since June 2020, the Skoda Octavia is sold as an estate and liftback with standard petrol and diesel engines.
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