Skoda Superb Estate hybrid review - DrivingElectric

Skoda has a reputation for offering great value, no-nonsense family cars, so how does that translate to the company's first-ever plug-in hybrid. Vicky Parrott samples the plush and practical Superb iV Estate to find out.

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Small request but can you change the title to 'Plugin Hybrid' instead of 'Hybrid'? It helps properly educate customers that there is a difference between a 'Hybrid' (e.g. Most Toyota Prius' and Lexus') vs a Plugin Hybrid. Thanks.

[cannygrowabeard]

I really hope we will still have estate cars when EVs take off, hate SUVs, such an inefficient way of moving people

[AlexVangeenRacing]

Great review, i currently have the Superb L&K 2.0 190D with a load of options on and do 30k miles per year and even though i have 3 years left on my lease i can’t stop thinking about what direction to go in next, but I’m glad to see the Skoda IV is good as i have been loving my Superb!

[daniel.dybvik]

I liked the review, however it would be very good to know the economy when the battery is depleted as well. It's a heavy car with a petrol engine..

[maereanm]

A Passat GTE (from which the Skoda takes the internals) never ever gets worse than 8.5 L/100 km (33 mpg UK). Which is amazing since you can use 218 hp.
On the highway at a steady 130 km/h (81 mph) it uses 8 L/100 km (35 mpg UK).
On B roads, it can go to 7 or even below 6 L/100 km (40 or even above 47 mpg UK) because it can travel 100 km (62 miles) with the petrol engine turned off in a 300 km (186 miles) journey starting with a full battery.
But if you do mostly short city runs (kids to school and then to work and back) and you charge it every day (at work or at home) it can get to 3 L/100 km (94 mpg UK) on a full tank of petrol.
So it's like a regular hybrid car but one which can run for weeks (and hundreds of continuous electric kilometers or miles) without using petrol if you charge it every day (including weekend days) and only do short commutes. Which does happen.

[mreastwood]

Great review. I ordered the MB E300de. Company car. This is what I would have chosen if it was my money. That leg room in the back...

[David-blbt]

Estates make far more sense than saloons or crossover/ SUV or whatever catch-phrase they tag them with these days.

I'm eagerly awaiting a bev estate, maybe one will be skodas next step?

[laurentiutrifan]

A decent PHEV break. I would buy one. 👍

[donaldduck]

My 2013 Vaxhall Ampera has a greater EV range. I just feel VW group could have made 60-100 mile EV range hybrids with today's battery technology. It's sort of the bare minimum required.

[chris-adams-tas]

Excellent review, effectively presented IMHO, more of the same please.

[darrenburrows-taurus]

It would be useful to understand in real world conditions what the mpg figures are on petrol only (ie once batteries are depleted if you're on a long motorway run for example)

[marklevy]

I don’t always get the chance to charge the batteries. Interested to know how the car performs if you just run it on petrol - would it be similar to the 1, 5 tsi from a power an economy standpoint?

[Maurice_Moss]

Very thorough review, answered a lot of the questions I had. 👍🏾

[edjack]

Ok, so now I’m interested in this car.

[robh]

Does the car feel under powered when the batteries are flat? Seriously considering one of these but the electric range would only cover one way of my commute.

[tekkenthumbdan]

I’ve currently got a 2 Liter Diesel (50 mpg regularly) as a cab; do you think us cabbies are are going to love it, or are the extra batteries and small petrol engine going to return lower mpg? Also I would be out of warranty in one year (60k). What do you know about battery degradation and replacement cost? So much extra to go wrong electronically plus the expensive gearbox (dual clutch constant mesh manual operating as an automatic); often they can’t hack it for high mileage users!

[vengeance]

do you review in the same track as Mat Watson?

[polanip]

Would be nice to have a phev version of kodiaq

[alandavies]

Great review. About to change my company vehicle and I’m really torn between the Skoda L&K estate or Volvo V60.

[theodopoulos]

I just bought a Toyota rav4 hybrid. But I can now see so many plugin hybrids coming... shame, wish I could have held off another year or two.