Skoda has teamed up with an Olympic archer and martial arts expert to set a new world record for the farthest arrow fired and caught in a moving car.
Using an Octavia vRS estate to get up to 134mph, martial arts coach Markus Haas was able to catch the speeding arrow with his hand 57.5m from where Austrian Olympian Laurence Baldauff fired it.
Taking place at the Zeltweg air base in Austria, the record attempt took four months to plan and martial arts coach Haas had to catch the arrow before it hit a stationary target 70 metres away from Baldauff.
Haas was able to lean out of the sunroof of the Octavia vRS and grab the 68-centimetre-long arrow while it arced towards the target.
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The challenge was performed as homage to Skoda’s logo, which is a winged arrow.
The Octavia vRS used is the fastest produced by Skoda, with the estate model using a 2.0-litre, four-cylinder turbocharged engine that produces 242bhp and can get the model from 0-60mph in 6.5 seconds – reaching a top speed of 155mph.
