Skoda Superb

Czech steadfast continues to marque the lawsuit for diesel estates with its stalwart household hauler Skoda has gone up successful the satellite and wrong the Volkswagen Group. Where the Skoda Superb started arsenic a stretched Volkswagen Passat, evolving to a stretched Passat with a weird footwear and yet to astir the Passat’s adjacent successful the outgoing generation, the latest, fourth-generation Superb has turned the tables.The caller Superb and Volkswagen Passat were developed broadside by side, but with the process led by Skoda. The Mladá Boleslav steadfast has turned from follower to leader, not conscionable taking an important relation successful the improvement of caller cars but besides tearing disconnected the shared-platform straitjacket, specified arsenic by introducing off-menu user-interface concepts that summation usability through communal sense.At the aforesaid time, the Superb has less property car rivals than ever. The premium German brands persist with ample estates, but Jaguar has precocious axed the XF, and entrants from Vauxhall, Ford and Japanese brands are agelong gone. Instead, the Superb’s biggest situation volition beryllium to person buyers not to take the ubiquitous SUV and alternatively spell for the classical estate.The scope astatine a glanceModelsPowerFrom1.5 TSI e-TEC SE Technology148bhp£36,1752.0 TDI SE Technology148bhp£36,6902.0 TSI201bhptbc1.5 TSI iV SE Technology201bhp£41,4652.0 TDI 4x4 SE L190bhp£43,3202.0 TSI 4x4 L&K262bhp£47,655Skoda inactive offers an extended scope for the Superb successful the UK. There are presently 2 petrol engines, 2 diesels and a plug-in hybrid to take from, with a 3rd petrol coming aboriginal this year.The astir almighty petrol and diesel models person four-wheel drive. There are 3 trim levels: SE Technology, SE L and Laurin & Klement, though not each engines tin beryllium combined with each trim level. All Superbs get a dual-clutch automatic gearbox.