The Scoda Superb: A Family-Friendly Vehicle with a Classless Edge

The Scoda Superb has been part of the fifth gear family for five months, and it's still receiving almost unanimous praise from anyone who gets to sit in it, look at it, or drive it. Even Fifth Gear royalty like Tiff and Plato couldn't find fault with our Superb, a couple of weekends ago we took it to the NEC in Birmingham for the Autop Sport International show. The Superb was basically used as their win car, Bago sprawled across the back seats with cups of tea and bacon sandwiches - no complaints at all.

The Superb came across as totally classless, having both handsome, prestigious looks that hold their own, and a Scoda badge that doesn't come across as cocky or aloof. It's a people's champion, in other words. This is evident even amongst proper race cars and racing drivers who were able to appreciate the Superb without any issues.

Our experience with the Superb has been nothing short of positive. We had to take it in for a service which was, quite frankly, a painless experience. We booked ourselves anonymously into the nearest Birmingham dealer, and the service we got was spot on. They offered to come and pick the car up from us, offered to give us a courtesy car, and did all of the work in just one day. This shows that, at least in our experience, Scoda dealers are as good as their cars.

However, it's worth noting that even with a car as capable as the Superb, there can be trouble. The double-clutch gearbox isn't quite as smooth and unintrusive as we think it could be. In gentle driving, it has a tendency to change upper gear too early - presumably to keep CO2 emissions down. The only problem with this is that it can drop the engine out of its turbo range and therefore lacks any power.

Moreover, when driving along and asking for a small burst of acceleration, the gearbox can be too keen to change down a gear when in fact the gear it's in would pull along perfectly fine. This highlights a couple of months left with us using the Superb, and we're gearing up for the spring series which starts in April. In this time, we'll upload a couple more videos so keep your eyes peeled on the website.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enour scota superb has been part of the fifth gear family for 5 months and still receives almost unanimous praise from anyone who sits in it looks at it or drives it even fifth gear royalty like Tiff and Plato cannot find fault with our superb a couple of weekends ago we carted off up to the NEC in Birmingham for the autop sport International show and across the whole weekend they used this basically as their win Bago sprawled across the back seats with Cups of Tea and bacon sandwiches no complaints at all they loved it even amongst proper race cars and racing drivers the superb came across as totally classless it's got the handsome prestigious looks to hold its own and look Posh but at the same time it's got a scoda badge so it doesn't come across as cocky and aloof it's a people's Champion other going on include us having to take it in for a service which was a totally painfree experience we booked ourselves anonymously into the nearest Birmingham dealer and the service we got was spot on they offered to come and pick the car up from us they offered to give us a courtesy car and they did all of the work in a day so in our experience at least Scot's dealers are as good as their cars the trouble with a car that's as capable as the superb is that after a while you start to desperately look for faults just to prove it's not perfect and we found one a few of us have noticed that the double clutch gearbox isn't quite as smooth and unintrusive as we think it could be firstly in gentle driving it has a tendency to change upper gear too early presumably to keep CO2 emissions down the only trouble with that is it can change up so early that it drops the engine out of its turbo range and therefore it lacks any power and secondly is the opposite problem when you are driving along and ask for a small burst of acceleration it can be too Keen to change down a gear when in fact the gear it's in would pull along perfectly fine the superb's got a couple of months left with us and will be put to harder use than ever as we gear up for the spring series which starts in April we'll upload a couple more videos so keep your eyes peeled on the websiteour scota superb has been part of the fifth gear family for 5 months and still receives almost unanimous praise from anyone who sits in it looks at it or drives it even fifth gear royalty like Tiff and Plato cannot find fault with our superb a couple of weekends ago we carted off up to the NEC in Birmingham for the autop sport International show and across the whole weekend they used this basically as their win Bago sprawled across the back seats with Cups of Tea and bacon sandwiches no complaints at all they loved it even amongst proper race cars and racing drivers the superb came across as totally classless it's got the handsome prestigious looks to hold its own and look Posh but at the same time it's got a scoda badge so it doesn't come across as cocky and aloof it's a people's Champion other going on include us having to take it in for a service which was a totally painfree experience we booked ourselves anonymously into the nearest Birmingham dealer and the service we got was spot on they offered to come and pick the car up from us they offered to give us a courtesy car and they did all of the work in a day so in our experience at least Scot's dealers are as good as their cars the trouble with a car that's as capable as the superb is that after a while you start to desperately look for faults just to prove it's not perfect and we found one a few of us have noticed that the double clutch gearbox isn't quite as smooth and unintrusive as we think it could be firstly in gentle driving it has a tendency to change upper gear too early presumably to keep CO2 emissions down the only trouble with that is it can change up so early that it drops the engine out of its turbo range and therefore it lacks any power and secondly is the opposite problem when you are driving along and ask for a small burst of acceleration it can be too Keen to change down a gear when in fact the gear it's in would pull along perfectly fine the superb's got a couple of months left with us and will be put to harder use than ever as we gear up for the spring series which starts in April we'll upload a couple more videos so keep your eyes peeled on the website\n"