Maybe someone else can chime in here but the whole idea of a hot hatch was that you could go everywhere on the redline and never really be going that fast but just felt it, their handling more than made up for the "lack" of power.
Can you drive a tdi constantly in the redline?
And who really wants 50mpg in something that's ment to be a fun, fast car?
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Epic fail by skoda