VW Arteon Shooting Brake R-Line, Skoda Octavia vRS & Audi RS e-tron GT
THE WANNABE STYLISH ONE, THE wannabe sporting one and the wannabe revolutionary one, but which of these three VW Group protagonists fulfilled their remit best during their time on evo’s Fast Fleet?
For no particular reason, we’ll start with Volkswagen’s Arteon Shooting Brake, the wannabe stylish one. In most people’s eyes it is indeed stylish, in a non-boxy, non-traditional-estate-car kind of way. Just as Mercedes’ now-discontinued CLS Shooting Brake provided an alternative for those who didn’t want an E-class wagon, the Arteon follows the same formula and is the less capacious relative of the Passat.
Its more distinctive nose, frameless doors and sloping roofline meant spotting it when searching for its custodian, evo art editor Rich Browne, in whatever car park was being used for a photoshoot rendezvous point was often a little easier that it might otherwise have been. That said, there are better colours than
