Skoda Superb [2009-2014] User Reviews

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox The Car broke down on 1st day of 1 km driving. this is just unheard of.

Ride Quality & Handling The steering and the brake gets locked even if there is any problem, hence one gets stranded, cannot move the car to side ways.

Final Words The Car is very unreliable, has borked down on the first day of delivery, was towed away to garage. Skoda guys accept the problem in the car, but refused to replace the car... What a great service. They are pushing me to take delivery of the repaired car. i have never seen an unreliable car like this, company like this. The car can breakdown any time, the steering gets locked, the brakes fail. One who have good amout of extra money should invest in Skoda cars.

Areas of improvement Skodis should stop cheating customers, understand that customer pay Rs25 Lac for comfort, not to purchase headaches And regrets. They have to improve their quality, reliability, customer service, customer confidence.

Exterior This Car is Desinged with Superb technologies and the only thing it should be rectified is the pick up> The Vechile has Much Control and is Technologies used by Skoda is great. I have two Vechiles Of Skoda and I think there is very Less maintanence.Found in a Review that No Customer Service for the vechile.I think that is not a Problem If you Ring up Mahavir Auto (Hyderabd) People there even pick the Vechile and Rectify the issues and then Drop the Vechile at Yoor Place.U Can prefer This Vechile because you Can get the Best Facilities compared to any Brand.

Interior (Features, Space & Comfort) Good Interior and Comfort.

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox Best Fuel For that Type of Car.

Ride Quality & Handling Most Memerable Rides I had with the vechile.

Final Words You Can Prefer the BRand (Skoda) easily without any Second thpught.

Areas of improvement Lauch More tpes of car models.

Exterior Nothing much to complain about. Does have a luxury-car look to it. However with the launch of the Rapid, both cars look almost similar from the front (not to an authomobile enthusiast - but to a common man)

Interior (Features, Space & Comfort) Everything is amazing. Sound system is just simply Superb! Rear seat space - Superb! Features of convenience - Superb!  

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox For a car of this size and 160 bhp on tap - I get anywhere between 11 and 15 on the highways and just below 10 inside the city. Gearbox! Ha - the touchy factor. 7-Speed DSG gearbox's WERE prone to their meachatronics failing.  I am assuming this problem in the mechatronics unit is fixed (can anyone validate that?)

But - for driving the 7-Speed DSG is in a class of its own. Absoultely no feel of gear shifts. Instant power on demand!

Ride Quality & Handling Nothing to complain about.  

Final Words If at all one can get the assurance that the mechatronics problem in the DSG is fixed - I would say that this car is better VFM than our 3 german friends - including the A6, 5-series and E-class.  

Areas of improvement  

1) Dealer, Dealer and Dealer.

2) Spare parts cost.

I still remember, the day when I test drove the car with my family, and sooner the test drive finished, it was unanimous buy decision with a remark by all,"it is simply Superb!!!!". It was choice between 3 series and this. Initial 1-2 months were great and we really enjoyed the drive. and on an highway mileage was 15.1 kpl (1.8 tsi engine).However the first impression started blurring. with first visit to the workshop for a sudden mpfi lamp on the panel lit up, pathetic experience. Right from receiving yourself to fixing the problem, this does not happen at the other luxury car segments workshop in India. After the fix. don't know what happened the mileage went down to 12 kpl on highways under same conditions!!! Worst was to be experienced in first summer after purchase that you sweat at the rear!!!! Cooling is really bad at the rear.  You miss a USB port in today,s world of itouch. When you try to complain abt things they need chasis, engine number in the response mail from customer care for them to help. I would not be doing justice if I do not mention that it's a fantastic experience when it comes to driving, space. and I love driving this car if I forget the ac, after sales, workshop and fuel economy.

Exterior

Impeccable design and intelligent features (just one example: auto-adjusting headlamps) 

Interior (Features, Space & Comfort)

Extraordinary amount of space... particularly at the back.  

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox

It gives me great confidence to pull ahead of other cars on the road. 1.8 TSI petrol engine is very responsive and extremely quiet. My manual gearbox is a pleasure to operate. I understand the DSG automatic gearbox in AT models is suffering a lot of failures at the hands of Indian drivers and I would like to pin the blame completely on the recklessness of either the owner-drivers or more than likely that of the professional drivers hired by owners who don't want to drive their expensive Skoda by themselves for whatever reason. It is really unreasonable to pin all the blame on Skoda engineering or the dealer or even the service shop personnel. People have got to be honest in admitting their incompetence or that of their drivers. I fully support Skoda the company's position in handling all these frivolous complaints.

Ride Quality & Handling

Superb!!! What else can I say? 

Final Words

Please see my comments above under Engine Performance and Gearbox section. 

Areas of improvement  

I can't think of anything serious. There may be some intermittent electrical malfunctions because there is so much technology built in this mean machine. I have noticed that the fuel gauge suddenly shows empty from half-full position when I am operating headlamps, wipers, AC and radio. Again, this doesn't happen everytime! I am stumped as to why it happens, but it is not such a major issue that I want to leave my car at the dealer for an extended period of time. I can live with the quirk. Nothing else is wrong with my used 2010 Skoda Superb 1.8 TSI MT.

Exterior Well, I can say proudly that I own a Superb. It turns heads everywhere I go. It looks like a royal, rich car as compared to Honda Accord, VW Passat etc. At night xenons lights adds flair to its beauty. Alloys are good.

Interior (Features, Space & Comfort) Interiors is the best thing I like about my Skoda Superb. It has lots of space. Sunblinds does their work well. Comfort is top notch. Everywhere there are lights in car. As soon as we unlock the car, all lights comes up beautifully. Sound system is amazing. It has countless features. But the best thing I like to do in my car is 'Peeping out of the Sunroof at night'. Seriously guys, trust me. Give car anyone to drive, sit on rear seats, open the sunroof and come out of it. We can't describe the joy in words. Kilometres and kilometres passes with joy. Parktronic works well. Top notch comfort in this car.

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox Amazing pick-up. Smoothest car i've ever driven in my life. 1.8 TSI is just amazing engine. Torque is excellent. The manual gearbox with 1.8 TSI is just like icing on the cake 😊.

Ride Quality & Handling Ride quality is amazing. Cornering is confidential in this car. You will never know that you've reached to 100 in just few seconds.

Final Words Superb is Superb. The name itself suggests it all. Its really 10/10.

Areas of improvement  😲

Exterior I love the bonet profile and the pheaton style rear piller.

Interior (Features, Space & Comfort) The interior room is huge and very spacous.  there's plenty of room for 5 large adults.  The sat nav is more complex than it needs to be taking 3-4 clicks to even set guidence to take you home (1 button on my old Signum)  telephone system works very well.

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox The engine is great but could do with a wider spread of torque.  but then have gone from a V6 diesel to a 4 pot. The DSG box is great for 99% of the time.  2 areas where it struggles is when turning at a slow speed junction into an incline.  The DSG tends to kick down to many gears when in D in sport its already a gear lower and seems better.  Also when in D at low speeds it tends select a gear to high and labours a bit.

Ride Quality & Handling With a long wheel base and compliant suspension the ride is great.  the bump and rebound settings are equally good on motorways and poor B roads. Even with 18" rims with 40 profile tyres the ride is excellent.

Final Words We picked up this car 2 years old with 7k on the clock for 18.5k. We looked at E250 and A6 and found them to be 10k for the same featured car. All in all a bargin.

Areas of improvement Slightly better seats would help anybody in the 6'2" 16 stone department.  Other than that after 3000 miles I don't have any issues yet.  Probably the best car I've owned in 25 years of driving.

Exterior Looks ok and streamlined.

Interior (Features, Space & Comfort) Not bad.

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox Engine is ok but frequent rubber bush failures.

Ride Quality & Handling Ride is ok - but their service quality is terrible, esp in NCR - they are very nice until you part with your money, after that their true nature comes out. My car had frequent electrical failures which they could never fix, and its compreesor and AC system conked out 3 times in 3 years (I bought the car brand new in 2006). The dealers'workshop staff are demoralised, demotivated and inadequately trained, and the dealers do not believe in carrying basic spares inventory. My brand new car possibly spent more time in the workshop than with me. Spares indented from Aurangabad take months to arrive.

Final Words BUY IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. I AM A PRIME EXAMPLE OF A SUFFERER!

Areas of improvement  ALMOST EVERYTHING - ITS A SORRY APOLOGY FOR A GERMAN CAR AND GERMAN RELIABILTY AND TRUSTWORTHINESS.

Areas of improvement As name suggests it has done reasonable good job considering the price car is available at, feature those are to be updated are electric sun blind for rear seat and manual sun blind for front seat passenger and rear seat adjustment like hyundai Equas to make more use of its rear leg room. Provided both the features skoda can charge 100000 Rs more, I would not mind paying so as others.

The main concern for skoda should be the after sales service expereience, I fear if it remains continue than skoda will having days like ford (good cars but not having enough customers even at less prize). so beware.

The audio system is one of the highlights of the Superb, Storage spaces one can expect from a car in this class, but special mention must be made of the ‘twindoor’ boot. Ride is slightly stiffer than its siblings at low speeds and improves by leaps and bound at higher sppeds.