Road Test
Skoda Superb 2.0 TDI Elegance
Test Date 29 July 2008
Price When New £21,057
Verdict
However much it may have gained in credibility, there’s little point in a brand like Skoda directly confronting the premium names. So it’s good that the company’s ‘executive’ car doesn’t really try, offering instead a unique blend of attributes centred around space and that Twindoor. So the Superb will appeal to someone with particular practical needs who probably won’t be bothered by its square-cut, slightly old-fashioned looks.
In purely logical terms, probably nothing else comparable makes quite as much sense as the Superb. It’s a pleasure to live with and a pleasure to drive, if not exactly engaging in the way of a Mondeo. So it’s just a question of whether you could make the leap to the Skoda badge on a car with prestige pretensions. And whether you like the looks. There may lie the stumbling block.
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