BUYER’SGUIDE: Skoda Superb

THIS year marks three decades since Volkswagen began its acquisition of Skoda, and it’s fair to say that since then the Czech brand – and its products – have been completely transformed. Although Skoda produced luxury cars in its distant past, before VW the focus was very much on cheap vehicles that weren’t always so cheerful.

In 1991 the idea of Skoda offering an upmarket car was unthinkable, but such was the pace of change with VW that within a decade Skoda introduced the original Superb, a stretched saloon based on the Passat platform. It proved so popular that a sequel came in 2008 (with the option of an estate), and an all-new third edition in 2015, also in hatchback or estate forms.

History

THE third-generation Skoda Superb arrived in September 2015, and buyers could choose between 124/148bhp 1.4 TSI and 217/276bhp 2.0 TSI petrol engines, along