Skoda has slid into the document books but once more with its newest publicity stunt to advertise the recently-revealed Enyaq RS iV electrical SUV.
On January 19, 2023, motoring journalist Richard Meaden took a largely unmodified Skoda Enyaq RS iV and drifted constantly for a Guinness World Report-breaking 7.351 kilometres.
It beat the earlier document set in China throughout 2022 by over 1.1 kilometres.
This record-breaking feat was carried out on a round observe measuring 188.496 metres in circumference on the frozen Stortjärgen lake close to Östersund, Sweden.
The Enyaq RS iV set a brand new Guinness World Data title for the “longest steady car drift on ice”, in addition to the “longest steady drift on ice (electrical automobile)”.
Guinness World Data adjudicator and worldwide drifting decide David Kalas witnessed the drift, and the outcomes have now been formally verified.
A complete of 18 hours of drifting was put in throughout 5 full days in sub-zero temperatures.
Skoda set the document on its fourth day on location following quite a lot of observe runs with totally different tyre mixtures.
The record-breaking mixture had been 20-inch alloy wheels wrapped in Däckproffsen 245/35 R240 ‘occasion tyres’ on the entrance with 600 5mm studs, and Nokian Hakkapelitta 255/45 R20 tyres on the rear with 300 2mm studs.
It took the Enyaq RS iV quarter-hour and 58 seconds to finish the record-breaking drift, with it going across the round observe 39 occasions.
These two newest Guinness World Data carry the Skoda RS nameplate again to the limelight, as in 2011 Mr Meaden took an Octavia RS and achieved a Southern Californian Timing Affiliation (SCTA) land pace document for a 2.0-litre forced-induction manufacturing automobile of 365.45km/h.
The Skoda Enyaq RS iV is the model’s second all-electric RS-branded car and follows the sleeker-looking Enyaq Coupe RS iV.
It’s based mostly on the Volkswagen Group’s modular MEB structure and is powered by a dual-motor all-wheel drive powertrain producing complete system outputs of 220kW of energy and 460Nm of torque.
Skoda claims it might do the 0-100km/h dash in 6.5 seconds, and flat out you’ll be doing 180km/h.
That is mated to a 82kWh battery pack with claimed vary of over 500km based on an undisclosed testing commonplace.
Thanks partially to the lowered chassis (15mm on the entrance and 10mm on the rear), the Enyaq RS iV has a drag coefficient of 0.265, in comparison with 0.248 for the coupe SUV model.
Skoda in March 2022 confirmed it plans to carry the SUV and coupe SUV Enyaq iV vary to Australia, however manufacturing shortages imply it received’t be prepared to start out taking orders till the second half of 2023.
Based mostly on the present timeline, deliveries most likely received’t begin till 2024.
It’s nonetheless unclear if Skoda plans to carry the high-performance RS variants.
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