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2009 Skoda Superb reviews

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John Walker, Lincolnshire

Skoda Superb SE 4x4 2009

5 star review

Having worked in Automotive OEMs most of my working life and including a 15 year spell in a very prestigious Engineering Consultancy I feel qualified to comment on this VAG masterpiece. Look at an A6 saloon, Quattro and think I’ve just saved £10 K at least, oh and it ’s handling over a sportline is far more compliant too. It ain’t the prettiest car in the world but after Mercs, 5 series Beemers, Jags etc., it is a very well made, dynamically competant, spacious, load of fun because the Haldex system gives it the same off road qualities as Audis, Volvos and BMWs. I’m sold ! Estate version next year.

Submitted: 21/02/2011 22:46:54

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Campbell Irving, Scotland

Skoda Superb Elegance 170 bhp 2009

4 star review

This car is magic. It has heated rear seats, park assist, more room in back and front than any car I have had ,,including Mercs. The only complaint I have is that the satnav (expensive if you buy it seperately) only takes 4 digits and is worse using a post code than a £200 Tomtom, but apart from the satnav I am delighted with the car.

Submitted: 22/11/2009 13:04:40

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Syd Taylor, England

Skoda Superb 1.8 TSi SE 2009

5 star review

Call a car a Superb and it has a lot to live up to. But the marketing people at Skoda clearly know their business. This new Skoda is superb by name and superb by nature - so good that you would question why anyone would pay more when, at the highly competitive price, starting at just �15490 for the entry level 1.4 TSi and rising to �26,675 for the 4WD 3.6 litre V6 fit for a King, you can enjoy this quality level of motoring experience. It truly is a superlative car. It was my pleasure to appraise the 1.8 TSi in SE equipment level. Lacking entirely any of the vulgar stylistic appendages that bedevil even the most expensive cars today, the Superb has an understated presence suggesting taste and discernment and sits well alongside Mercedes, Audi�s and the like. In essence we�re looking at a large luxurious car that is terrifically habitable and attractive inside, amply provided with legroom, splendidly appointed in every respect and amply endowed with the performance and sophistication one expects from the very best cars today. The door test is always a good place to start with any new vehicle. Open the driver�s door, look inside, and close the door. Try it with this car and reassurance is immediate and gratifying. The fit is perfect, hinges are smooth - and comforting aromas of quality materials assail the nostrils. Best of all though, are the sound cues provided by the reassuring clicks and clunks: built �all of a piece�, as they say: it�s beautifully assembled. This Skoda shouts �quality� from the very core of its being. It�s also the most luxurious car Skoda has ever built, brimming with aesthetic appeal and having a �feel-good� factor to rival cars costing twice or even three times as much. With limousine levels of interior space, only a handful of long wheelbase cars have more rear room than the Superb - and this is, in part, due to the new transverse engine layout. Your correspondent recommends that fat corporations ditch their pretentious so-called �executive� BMWs and Jaguars and educate their executives to see the value this car represents. Years ago - before Jaguar and BMW were born - Skoda’s were the choice of Kings and have a significantly better pedigree than almost any other marque. Argue to the contrary at your peril and you display a dreadful ignorance that should condemn you to several years’ penal servitude in a Trabant. There�s a �world first� too with the new Superb. Unsure if your need is for a saloon or a hatchback? Then look no further than this model. Ingenious design enables it to �morph� from saloon to hatch and back thanks to the �Twindoor� boot facility so that you get two cars in one. The advantages, we are told, is that with the Twindoor fully open you have easy access to the boot. More capacious than many estates, bigger than a bijoux town house and nearly as big as my swimming pool, it is, quite simply, huge. Skoda also tell us that should access to the luggage area be needed on a very cold or very hot day then by opening the �saloon car boot� only, your pampered passengers won�t faint from the sudden temperature change: particularly useful in Siberia or the Sahara. You could be forgiven for thinking that at such attractive prices, Superbs would be compromised in some areas. I can tell you categorically that they are not. A host of fitments to soothe you keep you safe and make your driving pleasurable are there in abundance. Top spec. models get everything from Columbus colour touchscreen SatNav. To electrically adjusted and heated front seats, while even the entry level S spec cars have eight speaker sound systems. Just like Bentley, those thinking people at Skoda have even included an umbrella hidden in the water resistant storage space in the left hand rear door. But, of course, it doesn�t just stop there with Skoda (These people are engineers). Your umbrella not only opens at the touch of a button - it collapses at the touch of a button too. If that�s not enough, they�ve even coated it with a special anti-mould solution. That�s class! A choice from six engines (three petrol and three diesels), manual or DSG transmission and even four wheel drive, means that the new Superb has and does what all those other �executive� marques have and do: and in many instances it has more and does things better. Testing the turbocharged 160 bhp 1.8 TSi SE six speed manual version, which costs just �18930 was a sheer delight. The engine is smooth, torquey and so refined that you would swear you were driving a six cylinder car. Of course, it�s no use having smooth power if the car doesn�t have the quiet and comfortable ride to go with it. Settle to motorway speeds, set the climate control to �cool� (which you most certainly are when driving one of these). And you could travel the length and breadth of the land and arrive completely relaxed and unruffled: very little tyre or wind noise at speed means you swoosh sweetly along first class. I�ve travelled in much noisier Mercedes than this. �But it�s a large car that is guaranteed to pitch and roll once off the straight and narrow� I hear you say. Nonsense! I can tell you that with the new engine layout and suspension change it�s a paragon of good manners: nimble and balletic enough for your chauffeur to escape down country lanes when a kidnap attempt is made on you. (Buyers must be aware that riding in one of these will make them a target of considerable envy). Suspension has been tuned to give an almost perfect balance between agility and ride comfort. Should you encounter a Russian tank around the corner, rest assured that if a collision occurs, the array of passive and active safety features will mean the tank will come off worst because this Skoda has achieved a five star EuroNCAP rating for passenger protection - and the tank hasn�t. The complex network of safety programmes stops short of ejector seats. An urgent motorway trip of eighty miles followed by sixty miles of twists, turns and ups and downs and then into the inner city, convinced me that this is the best value for money car in its class - or indeed in the class above and the class above that. On the motorway I set the cruise control and relaxed: on the A and B roads I revelled in the liveliness and good handling and in the infernal nightmare that is the traffic jam, I tuned into Classic FM and listened to the Prague Philharmonic. Skoda has, with the new Superb, given us a thoroughly modern car that is clean lined and simply drawn which satisfies through a mix of design, function and user friendliness - without appearing flashy. At less than �19,000 it�s outstanding value.

Submitted: 24/07/2009 13:40:33

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