This car goes against all modern trends

Skoda volition soon motorboat a bully old-fashioned ample car – that’s close – an existent car.

The petrol-powered new-generation Superb volition debut successful 2025 successful a federation obsessed with SUVs and utes. And that’s large quality for buyers who conscionable privation a practical, premium enactment that isn’t 2.5 tonnes of high-riding metal.

The caller Superb volition beryllium sold successful liftback guise (a sedan body-style, but with a hatch-like footwear lid) and arsenic a presumption wagon, and portion pricing and specs aren’t confirmed yet, you tin expect it to beryllium loaded with instrumentality similar 19-inch wheels, Matrix LED headlights that tin halt your lights from blinding different roadworthy users, a immense caller touchscreen media strategy with sat-nav and wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, wireless telephone charging, suede-like and fake leather trim, heated and cooled beforehand seats, heated rear model seats, and a immense array of information technology.

The compartment has seen a monolithic redesign.

Our trial car featured a monolithic 15-inch media show that volition instrumentality a small learning, and portion determination aren’t power dials attached to the screen, Skoda’s caller Smart Dials assistance marque interacting with the strategy a smidge easier. Those are 3 twisty knobs with tiny displays integrated into them, and the cardinal 1 tin beryllium customised to your tastes — volume, thrust modes, sat nav zoom and more. The others enactment arsenic your clime power dials, and besides power the heating/cooling for the seats.

Our trial car besides had massaging beforehand chairs, and Skoda besides includes a caller ‘Simply Clever’ diagnostic — a felt-covered barroom that you tin hitch the media surface with erstwhile your grubby mitts marque it look gross.

Second-row abstraction is excellent, with ample country for a six-foot portion to slump successful down their ain driving position, and back-seat bandits besides get clime control, directional vents, sunblinds connected the windows, and cupful holders successful a flip-down armrest, which besides includes a publication oregon tablet holder, and instrumentality holsters are disposable for the setbacks too. Four USB-C complaint ports instrumentality attraction of artillery demands, and parents enactment determination are outboard ISOFIX points and 3 top-tethers, too.

At much than 4.9 metres successful length, the caller Superb is akin successful magnitude to a three-row SUV, and it has a monolithic footwear capableness that families volition emotion — the Liftback has 645 litres, portion the wagon offers a immense 660 litres down the rear seats.

Australia is going to get conscionable 1 powertrain prime for the caller exemplary – our cars volition beryllium the 195TSI Sportline spec, which is powered by a 2.0-litre turbo-petrol four-cylinder motor producing 195kW and 400Nm, with a dual-clutch (DSG) automatic controlling advancement done an on-demand all-wheel thrust system.

Sadly the exemplary tested successful Germany wasn’t that – instead, it had a 2.0L turbo-diesel, which was besides charming successful its ain way. But portion the powertrain wasn’t typical of our spec, it was inactive evident that this new-gen exemplary has improved and finessed the already awesome thrust acquisition of the past model.

With new, much precocious suspension with 15-stage adjustable dampers that tin soften the thrust to plush levels oregon harden the thrust up for twisty roads, and being built connected the caller stiffer MQB Evo architecture, determination is nary uncertainty that it is sweeter to drive. The steering has aggregate modes, and there’s a thrust mode selector that allows you to tailor it to your preferences.

Over hundreds of kilometres of mixed driving – including autobahn blasts, twisty roadworthy touring and stop-start postulation – the Superb frankly lived up to its name. The caller underpinnings besides mean its refinement is better, with little roadworthy roar and harshness. I was truly impressed to beryllium capable to perceive the bubbles of my fizzy portion holstered successful the doorway pouch much than the idle of the diesel engine.

For the purchaser who wants a plush caller petrol car and doesn’t privation to walk $100K oregon much to get a Mercedes, Audi oregon BMW sedan oregon wagon, it could beryllium each the existent car you’ll ever need.