152PS turbo-charged petrol rocket.

Skoda Octavia vRS owners will be familiar with the five-valve turbo-charged four-pot in the TT; after all this is an engine designed and developed by Audi and used in other Volkswagen group cars including the Octavia vRS. And what an engine it is!
We?ve raved about this engine when we road tested the vRS and a year on it continues to blow us away. In the TT the 1.8-litre engine pumps out 152PS of power at 5700rpm and 210Nm of torque all the way from 1750 right up to 4600rpm. Motronic ME 7.5 electronic sequential injection handles fuelling duties on the twin cam all-aluminium engine.

Internationally this engine is the base unit available on the TT with higher spec versions getting twin intercoolers (unlike the single intercooler on this engine) that develops 180PS of power. However that unit requires 98 octane petrol which still isn?t available in the country.
The gear ratios are also identical to the Octavia vRS though the altered final drive and increased wheel diameter (17-inch to the RS?s 16-inchers) results in a shorter overall gearing and thus better engine flexibility.