First good Pictures of All new Skoda Superb

Zonda999 · 09-01-2008 6:25pm #1

The first good pics of the all new skoda superb have been released today.Looking good to reach ireland by august.Looks to have same engines as passat.

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/images/front_picture_library_UK/dir_475/car_photo_237510_25.jpg

Good looking car IMO.

niceirishfella · 09-01-2008 8:04pm

yes, not bad at all.

E92 · 09-01-2008 8:06pm

Looks like a VW Jetta from that angle, which is not good.

Whatever happened to VAG's plan by Burnt Fishtrousers ok ok Bernd Pischetrieder was his real name which included restricting Skoda to just the Fabia and Octavia?

Martin Winterkorn mustn't have liked that plan evidently.

Jimbo · 09-01-2008 8:06pm

Looks Supurb.

Ya, ya, I'll get me coat

cantdecide · 09-01-2008 8:15pm

Do theose wheels look familiar to anyone else??

mick.fr · 09-01-2008 8:19pm

Pussies car.

cantdecide · 09-01-2008 8:20pm

mick.fr wrote: »

Pussies car.

I've missed you, mick.fr

mvpr · 09-01-2008 8:20pm

Looks good, but the average 1.9tdi taxi wont have any of the ancilliaries that are on that car.

Fan of the Superb though I must say

mick.fr · 09-01-2008 8:23pm

cantdecide wrote: »

I've missed you, mick.fr

Well, what I meant exactly actually is more that this car has no personality.
For me you have to drive that reflects your personality, but with this type of car, I do not see any. It is like a Ford Mondeon, or a Peugeot 406, 407, Citroen etc...
I can't believe I wrote Peugeot and Citroen, OH, I did it again....

Jimbo · 09-01-2008 8:25pm

mick.fr wrote: »

Well, what I meant exactly actually is more that this car has no personality.
For me you have to drive that reflects your personality, but with this type of car, I do not see any. It is like a Ford Mondeon, or a Peugeot 406, 407, Citroen etc...
I can't believe I wrote Peugeot and Citroen, OH, I did it again....

Or a BM?

cantdecide · 09-01-2008 8:30pm

mick.fr wrote: »

...what I meant exactly...

Thanks for clarifying;)

DonJose · 09-01-2008 8:31pm

Looks like a Saab.

maidhc · 09-01-2008 8:46pm

DonJose wrote: »

Looks like a Saab.

Bang on.

colm_mcm · 09-01-2008 8:47pm

the rear lights from the side are very 9-5, also a bit Phaeton. front lights are also reminding me of the Saab, but also of the Fabia, not bad looking, Audi and VW have done a lot blander in the last few years

E92 · 09-01-2008 8:48pm

Those wheels are very like the "machined" wheels you can get in a Ford!

woop · 09-01-2008 9:06pm

I have no objections to skoda's at all, actually I quite liked the old superb and the old fabia looks wise............I just dont know about the new look grill thats on the fabia and now the superb............I cant really place what I dont like about it, bit formal looking or something

Sandwich · 09-01-2008 10:01pm

Looks fine. Better than the current Passat - unlike the current Superb which just always just got lost in the crowd as too B5 Passat lookalike.

fabsoul · 09-01-2008 10:08pm

Sandwich wrote: »

Looks fine. Better than the current Passat -

+1

Zonda999 · 09-01-2008 11:37pm

I think it looks great and i'm sure the interior w'ont disappoint(apparently like a passat which is no bad thing)I'm slightly disapointed with the diesel choice.I previously thought that it would be 2.0TDI only with various power outputs, 120, 140 and 170.However according to skoda's website the base engine will be the same 1.9TDI as the passat.This was a great engine in its day but it is now one of the weak links in the vw group.I hear that the audi A4 is getting the 2.0TDI in the power outputs mentioned above. As far as i know these are now common rail rather than PD.It remains to be clear if the 1.9TDI in the new superb will also be common rail.Any thoughts?????

E92 · 09-01-2008 11:41pm

Zonda999 wrote: »

I think it looks great and i'm sure the interior w'ont disappoint(apparently like a passat which is no bad thing)I'm slightly disapointed with the diesel choice.I previously thought that it would be 2.0TDI only with various power outputs, 120, 140 and 170.However according to skoda's website the base engine will be the same 1.9TDI as the passat.This was a great engine in its day but it is now one of the weak links in the vw group.I hear that the audi A4 is getting the 2.0TDI in the power outputs mentioned above. As far as i know these are now common rail rather than PD.It remains to be clear if the 1.9TDI in the new superb will also be common rail.Any thoughts?????

VAG don't seem to like putting the most up to date engines in Skodas or Seats. There aren't any Seats with the new 1.4 and 1.8 TFSI engines around the place you'll notice.Though Skoda do offer you the 1.8 TFSI now.

The 1.9 would be the PD engine, the new A4 has the new common rail diesels and is the only VAG car with them so far. Oddly enough the VW Tiguan which only just came out has the older PD type diesels too.

Michael G · 09-01-2008 11:44pm

I love my May 2005 Superb — 1.9 litre 140bhp diesel automatic with cruise control and all the other amenities. I'm just going to wait for the new 2 litre DSG. But I wish they would make an estate; that would be my perfect car

mondeo · 09-01-2008 11:48pm

Well I'm not a taxi driver so I wont be making a purchase. Looks nice but in some ways like everything else on the road. Too Saab like I think..

Zonda999 · 09-01-2008 11:56pm

Michael G wrote: »

I love my May 2005 Superb — 1.9 litre 140bhp diesel automatic with cruise control and all the other amenities. I'm just going to wait for the new 2 litre DSG. But I wish they would make an estate; that would be my perfect car

Amazingly, there are indeed plans for an estate model superb.I remember reading it somewhere.D'ont hold your breath though.I reckon it wont get here until the start of 2009 at the earliest

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/228962/

They say so here

colm_mcm · 10-01-2008 12:00am

Dunno if everyone knows it's now a hatchback?

junkyard · 10-01-2008 12:11am

I'd buy one before I'd buy a VW anyway but that said Skoda still has a poverty image attached to it as far as I'm concerned. If I wasn't into cars and wanted something to get from A to B or to use as a taxi I'd buy one.

colm_mcm · 10-01-2008 12:17am

junkyard wrote: »

If I wasn't into cars and wanted something to get from A to B or to use as a taxi I'd buy one.

And not a Vel Satis?

bazz26 · 10-01-2008 12:36am

Not gone on the hatchback that looks like a saloon concept myself. Will be interesting the see what price range it comes in at.

Also are the new EuroV emmissions regulations going to put the old 1.9 TDi to rest over the next few years?

Zonda999 · 10-01-2008 12:40am

Definately, I still cant figure out how it got through Euro IV.When is EuroV going to come into effect anyway?????

junkyard · 10-01-2008 12:44am

LIGHTNING wrote: »

TBH if anybody (not you that is )says to me "But Skoda`s crap" or any of the usual rubbish they obviously know little or nothing about cars. Id had a Fabia for a while and I loved it, a far better car than a Polo.

I'm not saying they're crap it's just they've got an image problem. By all accounts they're a superior car to a VW..........not that that's a hard thing:).

Are you selling one of those Renaults Colm? I have a friend with a crusher who'd love to rid the planet of another one of them:D.

Seth Brundle · 10-01-2008 12:49am

junkyard wrote: »

Are you selling one of those Renaults Colm? I have a friend with a crusher who'd love to rid the planet of another one of them:D.

LOL - you secretly want to get rid of the M5 and get yourself a new 308!

unkel · 10-01-2008 12:56am

Quite like it. It looks very substantial. Half way between the Passat and the Phaeton?

First good Pictures of All new Skoda Superb

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