Skoda has revealed detailed sketches of its 2025 Octavia, which is able to carry refreshed styling and potential tech upgrades.
It’ll be revealed on February 14, 2024.
CarExpert understands the up to date Octavia will arrive in Australia in direction of the tip of 2024, or early 2025.
The sketches reveal new entrance and rear bumpers for the facelifted fourth-generation mannequin, in addition to a slimmer grille.
The Octavia will obtain second-generation LED matrix headlights with Crystallinium which provides a blue hue to the inside of the sunshine housing, in addition to new mild signatures with “sharpened contours”.
Skoda has confirmed it can proceed to provide the Octavia in each liftback and wagon physique kinds, and can proceed to supply Sportline and vRS (aka RS in Australia) variants.
The up to date mannequin has been teased previously, whereas spy photographs have revealed changes inside the cabin.
The Octavia is ready to get a bigger infotainment touchscreen just like the new-generation Superb and Kodiaq, and will get a completely digital instrument cluster.
Spy pictures present a touch-capacitive slider beneath the touchscreen plus a row of bodily switches additional down on the centre stack, although it’s unclear if the Octavia will get the Good Dials seen within the Kodiaq and Very good.
These characteristic built-in screens and may management the local weather, seat heating, quantity, driving modes, air con, and map zoom features.
The stubby transmission shifter stays, nevertheless it’s unclear what else the centre tunnel will home.
The Skoda Octavia sits on the MQB Evo platform and is obtainable with a selection of petrol, diesel and plug-in hybrid powertrains.
Skoda Australia has beforehand dominated out plug-in hybrid fashions and will instead jump straight to electric vehicles. It additionally not sells diesel automobiles.
The Octavia is at the moment provided in Australia with a selection of two petrol engines.
The 110TSI Fashion and Sportline have a 1.4-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine producing 110kW of energy and 250Nm of torque.
Drive is shipped by an eight-speed torque-converter computerized transmission to the entrance wheels solely.
The range-topping Octavia RS is powered by a 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine producing 180kW of energy and 370Nm of torque.
It’s additionally front-wheel drive, however makes use of a seven-speed (moist) dual-clutch computerized transmission and has an electronically locking entrance differential.
These wanting a equally sized Skoda passenger automotive with electrical energy might want to watch for the model’s upcoming electric wagon, due in 2026.
Skoda refers to its upcoming electrical wagon because the “Combi” and says it can measure round 4700mm lengthy, which implies it can sit between the Octavia (4689mm) and Very good (4901mm) in measurement.
The corporate’s native boss, Michael Irmer, has previously told CarExpert the model has no plans to discontinue combustion-powered automobiles in Australia earlier than the 2030s.
However, it’s lastly introducing electrical automobiles (EVs) to Australia, with the Enyaq due right here in 2024.
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