The Land Of The Three

Three Powerful Characters Storm Into Our Lives. This Is Their Story...
 

- Raunak Ajinkya

Do you get the feeling that sometimes people just overlook the obvious? That greatness and validation lie right under their noses, but they’re too taken up by the promise of grandeur and botched nose jobs?

‘Wait, what?’

Okay, maybe I’m jumping a tad. The point I’m trying to make is simple: Skoda has, very graciously, woken us up to the fact that we’ve all been behaving like absolute twats all this while. We’ve been wasting our time running after loony power figures and slammed bodies and spectacularly loud end-pipes. This is a story that needs to be told, and I’ll try to do it justice, especially since no one else seems to be listening to logic.

Like I was saying, Skoda woke us up — rudely and abruptly, almost. The Octavia vRS hit the ground running a few months ago in India and it’s had no time to look back ever since. Well, how could it if its entire allocation got sold out faster than Stephen Hawking can multiply 45.8 and 69.7? At first, I was a bit sceptical. Front-wheel drive, that rather unwelcoming front, and a skippy ride (basis the Octavia) wasn’t something I believed could be cured by dumping in more power, but Skoda’s made it work like it usually does. By the time the PR folks had sent the car over to my place for a weekend, I’d seen videos of vRS’ engulfed in flames, flipped multiple times, scarred beyond recognition, and generally driven ruddy hard. Clearly, people had realised how fun this car is already. But before I go ahead and tell you whether that’s true (hint: the answer sounds very much like ‘Mitz Froo’), allow me to demonstrate it qualitatively. Or quantitatively. Or both?

And Then, There Were Three