Skoda Laura User Reviews

"Please ignore typos if any"

Exterior - Solid Build, Elegant but Killer looks.

Interior (Features, Space & Comfort) - Extremely luxurious. Infact the best in the segment. I'd considered Toyota Corolla Altis, VW Jetta, Chevy Cruze & also Fluence from Renault. The closest among them in interiors to Laura was probably Jetta. The plastics used in Laura is far superior and it doesn't feel plasticky but classy.

Driver's view is excellent. Superb visibility in both front & rear windshields. No blindspot near A-pillar. Very plush & luxurious leather seats with seat heating for the front two seats. Considering I'm a 6' 2" person, the car can seat me comfortably in both front & rear seats. The middle sear in the rear has a little too high floor making it a bit uncomfortable for long journeys. In reality all sedans can seat only 4 adults comfortably so that is not really an issue.

The things it lack are USB & DVD for the music system, steering mounted controls for the audio system & GPS Navigation. Though steering controls & GPS are available in the next higher variant, it is not available in a manual transmission version (since the next variant would be L&K and it is only available in Auto Transmission).

The acoustics of the vehicle is very good. The system can play MP3 & has an aux. in which is a bit of solace. It has one hell of an air conditioning system which is semi-automatic.

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox It has a very responsive engine, powerful with a good torque distribution. The gearbox is also very good. It pulls like crazy in the 2nd & 3rd gears. You feel like you're in a jet taking off!!

The thing that impressed me the most was the fuel economy. I never expected it to be that good when i bought the car. Even city driving gives a mileage of min. 17 kmpl!! On the highway, careful driving can give you 20kmpl!! All these figures have been with AC since i never drive without AC (coz the interiors are beige & i'm not taking any risks in getting it dirty). In the 6000km i've driven, i've got an average mileage of 18.2kmpl.

Ride Quality & Handling Its purely a driver's car. If you like to drive, then Laura is the car for you (unless you can afford the super costly sports cars that is). The handling is something you've to experience coz i cant describe how good it is.

Final Words If you're considering a car in this segment, you like to drive, This is the car for you. I bought this car with some expectations in mind. Believe me when i tell this, it exceeded all of them and beyond. Its truly a marvellous piece of engineering. The thing with Skoda is, they go all out and take care of so many little details which you wont even have imagined necessary.

Areas of improvement Music System, music system & music system. Come on Skoda you've taken care of all the really important stuff. Considering what you've done with the car, this is a very small improvement you have to do considering we're in the era where USB rules.

Exterior

Royal car

Interior (Features, Space & Comfort)

 Enough features for comfortabole drive with spacious cabin

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox

 As compare to engine fuel economy is OK, has all necessary punch for highway and city drive.

Ride Quality & Handling

 Steering feels bit heavy, however i drove cruze as well and had same experince.

Final Words

Bought it preowned, was told not to go with skoda, but after driving and getting the first service done it change my perception about skoda, i had hyundai verna earlier has the service bill for 10 to 12k and in skoda its 11.5k which was a shocker to me as i thought it would go to above 15 to 20k.

even people mentioned that skoda has bad cust. service, I dint felt that at all, I reckon it was best experince I had till date, considering the experince in Hyundai, tata and suzuki service experience.

 Even skoda has a new strategy of working on cust. service which i beleive they had implemented very well

Areas of improvement  

 Steering could be lighter

cheaper spares