My son had a Suberb ICE DSG estate for several years and his experience was excellent. Cavernous, very refined, reliable. He was very sorry to get rid of it (he needed a bigger car), but it was snapped up by another member of the family who was similarly impressed.

 

I'm tempted, given the current lease prices. Will report back!

 

I'd love to hear what you are paying.

 

Well I’ve got one on order, hopefully arriving in the next couple of weeks!

 

Around £280 a month, 48 months with 6 up front.

 

What spec level was that if you don't mind me asking? Considering Superb Phev Estate once my current Passat GTE lease ends.

 

I have owned 4 Superbs, they are great cars and you can get some serious kit on them, a PHEV wouldn’t work for me though so it looks like I will be moving away from them when the time comes to change (unless I wait another 2+ years for the full BEV Superb)

 

My current daily driver is a Superb estate, with a 150bhp 2 litre Diesel engine in it. One of the best cars I’ve owned, including some high end stuff...cavernous as others have said, very smooth and quiet and reasonably agile for such a wafting barge. Gets 60+ mpg too, which is as much of a curse as it is benefit.

Why is it a curse? Because I want to change my car to an EV (just as we have SWMBO car) but even using my very best man maths I can’t justify it just yet. A recent 485 mile long weekend to Scotland cost just £45 in fuel, and charging at public chargers in the Zoe would have been about £20 so only a £25 saving on a trip we might do 3 or 4 times a year.

when the Superbs PCP is up, it’s deffo an EV for me then, and if they have put out a Superb Estate BEV in 3 years time as long as the range is 200 miles min and 50 kwph charging min that’s likely to be the choice. (Naturally I’d prefer longer range and quicker charging but 200 / 50 would be livable with..)

hope you enjoy your new Superb as much as I enjoy mine @urpert

 

A recent 485 mile long weekend to Scotland cost just £45 in fuel...

... and a trail of asphyxiated puppies and kittens in your wake?

 

duplicate post ?‍♂

 

triplicate pos ?‍♂

 

I think it’s the most basic PHEV trim level - ‘Technology’ or something similar.

No sign of it yet obviously!

 

Chased for an update this morning and it's being delivered on Friday morning! Almost can't remember what it looked like...

 

It’s here! And in even better news, it just about fits in the garage!

 

Keep us up to date with your average MPG. Let's hope it is mainly electric.

 

I soooo wished it was a full BEV.

It would have saved me trying to find something to replace my L&K.

 

I know... as a previous Ampera owner I’m not expecting it to be as clever as that. It is very comfortable though!

 

@donald I agree with you.

I’m normally world-class at Man Mathis but on this occasion even I can’t make the numbers work.

BUT - as per your second point - I want a BEV so that will over ride all other considerations! (Yes, I know I’m very lucky to be in such a position).

My bigger issue is having to be patient while the market sorts itself out and produces a car which fully meets my needs..which is basically something the size/quality of a Skoda Octavia or Superb Estate - as opposed to an SUV. However I can see that ultimately I’ll end up with an SUV shaped BEV as that’s what world markets seem to demand.

Luckily I rank the Superb as one of the best cars I’ve ever owned so I will enjoy the car over the next couple of years and get my BEV fix from SWMBO s Zoe once it arrives..

 

Tesla Model Y if you can wait?

 

Nice - But you could probably buy 3 Superb’s for that sort of money !.

 

Really - are new Superb PHEVs only £15K?

 

@urpert
How many mpg do you get on a trip, or running around without the battery charged?
I'm going to be going to PHEV, possibly even a hybrid, for a company car and trying to get ideas on mpg figures. I'm going to be driving all days per week 150-200+ miles per day so battery not going to last that long but if I'm careful I hope it will help.

If a diesel/petrol will use less fuel then it will be pointless getting one, apart from the tax saving.

 

@urpert
How many mpg do you get on a trip, or running around without the battery charged?
I'm going to be going to PHEV, possibly even a hybrid, for a company car and trying to get ideas on mpg figures. I'm going to be driving all days per week 150-200+ miles per day so battery not going to last that long but if I'm careful I hope it will help.

If a diesel/petrol will use less fuel then it will be pointless getting one, apart from the tax saving.

Get yourself a good Euro 6d diesel.

That sort of mileage, you are wasting your time with a PHEV.

But also consider the higher range Teslas. Some guys here have actually saved money over the long term, in comparison with ICE, what with the unlimited mileage warranties, superchargers, and such.

 

This is with London pottering done on battery as much as possible plus 2 or 3 long journeys

 

Be careful over VGAs way of presenting this data, it might mean anything.

Assuming those are figures for each, separately, it looks like you have traded electrical efficiency for petrol (petrol downhill and electric uphill, so to speak) .. which is fair enough and only right, of course ... but those figures don't look like they add up to something very collectively efficient.

 

Quick update on this having now had the chance to take it on holiday full of family junk and cover a decent number of miles.

The good

• The boot is enormous and sensibly shaped. We were originally considering the estate but I haven't regretted the decision yet (other than the slightly awkward looks of the hatch).
• It is very comfortable for driver and passengers. The leg room in the back has to be seen to be believed!
• The ACC works very well (it's the first car I've owned with this) so covering long distances, particularly in France, is very relaxing.
• Timed charging, pre-conditioning and other "EV" features work exactly as you would expect.
• The car is set up to select "E-mode" by default when you turn it on which fits very well with our use - you don't have to think about forcing the car to use battery for short journeys, but it's easy enough to select Hybrid mode before starting a longer journey and then let the car decide how to use battery/petrol.
• As a former Ampera owner the battery/hybrid side works in a very similar way but without the physical compromises of that car (4 seats, small boot etc).
• As a PHEV derivative of a very "standard" model it's easy to get things like roof racks, mats etc.
• Although regen mode isn't selected automatically it's just a matter of pushing the gear selector back beyond the "D" step. Regen is pleasingly strong and I tend to select it all the time for city driving.
• TfL have accepted the congestion charge exemption (at least until next October) which will help with the man maths!
• Wireless CarPlay/Android Auto is a very welcome feature.

The bad

• Realistically the maximum battery range is 30 miles with careful use - I managed to get nearly 50 out of the Ampera on several occasions.
• We had several consecutive days on holiday running it with zero battery range (so as a pure hybrid) and, as you would expect, the MPG becomes closer to typical for a large heavy car (i.e. high 30s). It is claiming lifetime MPG of 76.3 at the moment but I agree with @donald 's caveats above.
• The app is still a bit flaky (logging me out occasionally and forgetting my choice of units). I tried to fix this by logging out of my account in the car and then had a major issue re-connecting - this model has an e-SIM with the first year's data connection included, but if there is no account logged in the car seems to "forget" about the data connection, making it impossible to log in again! I finally managed to fix it by deleting my account on the Skoda website and waiting 24 hours...
• Charging is very slow which means there isn't much point in opportunity charging (supermarket car parks etc). There wouldn't be much point in choosing this car over a "self-charging hybrid"(!) without home charging.

 

HI Guys

have a new Skoda superb iV estate which I have had for 10 weeks, I have a bit of a problem in that I am struggling setting the timer charge to come on at 1.00am which is when my leccy is at a third of daytime tariff, there is an app called Skoda Connect that is free for the first year and apparently you can set the timer with this, however I am not able at the moment to register connect to my car, its been back to the dealers with this problem they had it for 2 days and were not able to resolve, they said that Skoda are aware of the problem and are working on it and hope to have a fix early in the new year,

so for now I should be able to set the timer from the infotainment, but I’m not having much luck sometimes it works other times it doesn’t there is a feature called departure time and on the same screen a set time and a finish time, what I’m not getting at the moment is why I need to input a departure time, surely I could just input a start and finish time for the charge ? do I need to always set a departure time as well as a start and stop time ( can’t see the need) so hoping that someone with a Superb iV sees this and has an idea

thanks in advance

Jim

 

HI Guys

have a new Skoda superb iV estate which I have had for 10 weeks, I have a bit of a problem in that I am struggling setting the timer charge to come on at 1.00am which is when my leccy is at a third of daytime tariff, there is an app called Skoda Connect that is free for the first year and apparently you can set the timer with this, however I am not able at the moment to register connect to my car, its been back to the dealers with this problem they had it for 2 days and were not able to resolve, they said that Skoda are aware of the problem and are working on it and hope to have a fix early in the new year,

so for now I should be able to set the timer from the infotainment, but I’m not having much luck sometimes it works other times it doesn’t there is a feature called departure time and on the same screen a set time and a finish time, what I’m not getting at the moment is why I need to input a departure time, surely I could just input a start and finish time for the charge ? do I need to always set a departure time as well as a start and stop time ( can’t see the need) so hoping that someone with a Superb iV sees this and has an idea

thanks in advance

Jim

Hi Jim

I haven't been on here for a while and think i'm the only Superb owner on here...

Mine is set up with a planned departure time and the off-peak hours, which is also how other EVs I've owned have worked. The car then works out when to start charging to make the most of the cheap electricity but also to be ready to go by your planned departure time.

Here's how it looks in the app (which is still buggy but slowly getting better) - the settings are basically the same in the car:

 

The Skoda Connect side of things is very flaky (see my post above from when I managed to sign out of my account and it completely lost the 4G connection)

 

Ive just had a call to tell me connect is now working and they are bringing the car back, so we'll see how we go,

are you liking the iV ? other than this problem I really like the car and being retired and only doing a few miles per day interspaced with the odd longer run the PHEV suits my lifestyle, there's around 1500 miles on the clock and still nearly half a tank of petrol (i topped it up to a full tank when I picked it up) not too sure how much the electricity is costing though,

I had a Kodiaq Edition before and I must admit if they did one of them as a PHEV i would have probably gone for that, it was a really nice car

 

I like it but don’t love it. I find the software pretty buggy and it’s sometimes a bit sluggish to respond (eg when you put it in reverse) - but that’s probably because of the contrast with the i3. Planning on hanging onto it until there’s a decent choice of family sized BEVs though (it’s a shame it loses the congestion charge discount in October).

 

Just stumbled across this blog.
I’m 4 weeks and 2,600 miles in with a new Superb iV SEL.
Sadly, the app is still rubbish, but I think it just about manages to sort out charging on time as per my Departure Planner…from 0% I’m not sure it’s even possible to get to 100% during full off-peak hours, but better than nothing.
Very comfortable, very big etc etc, I’m into this from a Volvo V60 so there are a few interior touches which don’t meet the same standard, but happy to live with those given the savings I’ll make on BIK!
Still not 100% on the best use of the EV mode - local journeys of course, and usually do pre and post motorway in full EV, on the big journeys. Given my 30,000 miles Pa, I’m fully aware than I’m not the ideal traveller for the vehicle…but BIK is king (and I refuse to bend the system fully with a pickup!!).