Skoda Superb 2002 test drive - 2008 -

Super Bolly "Skoda"

The most spacious business class?
 

Guys, who touched the front seat? Well, I specifically put it up for myself ...
 
I stand next to the huge wing of the rear door, staring at the Skoda-Superb salon. Irritation is replaced by surprise - or no one moved anything?! And no one interferes with the standard exercise planting after itself. Just the back of the driver's seat adjusted to my 180 cm turned out to be unusually far ahead. So much so that, sitting in the back, I found in front of my knees almost a quarter meter of space! I invite a couple of large colleagues in 195 and 197 cm. Having bowed to the door openings cut down the arc, they also were placed completely freely! Only the rear had to slide slightly so as not to rest his head against the sloping ceiling. But the anterior giant of the expanse - from its crown to the dome of the roof another 10 cm!
 
Such a huge interior is obtained by a well -known, although not often used in mass machines. Having taken one of the Volkswagen platforms - in this case, B5 from the Passat, it was lengthened in the rear seats for 100 mm. Logic is obvious: top models have to perform representative functions. Therefore, the largest business departments are produced by firms that do not have representative models in their line: Nissan Maxim, Opel Omega, Peugeot 607, Volvo S80. Almost caught up with them in overall dimensions, Skoda Superb was far ahead of everyone along the length of the cabin. If you do not take into account the emblem and the characteristic cladding of the radiator, it is not so easy to distinguish superb from the passat - both anfas, and the models are very similar to the profile. But take a closer look: the opening of the back door of Skoda covers the side window entirely (like Octavia), and the passato of the opening of the opening passes along the window stand.
 
You feel German roots here literally E -Ee ... with your back - it is worth sinking into hard bowl -shaped, almost anatomical, seats. The car in a modest configuration The classic does not differ in a wealth of equipment and finishes, but it pleases with the accurate elements, accurate execution, and attention to trifles, which is already familiar to cars from Mlad-Boleva. However, not only to them: there is an ESP stabilization system, parking sensors, climate control, an audio system with eight speakers, numerous electric drives and even a mirror with automatic darkening.
 
And also-a 2.8-liter V-shaped six two hundred horsepower! It is installed longitudinally and brings the front wheels. The clarification is not subtle, since the sedans of the European E-Class are diverse in the layout-from the classical BMW and Lexus-GS300 to the front-wheel drive with the transverse engine in the SAAB-9-5 or the all-wheel drive in the yaguar X-type.
 
A powerful motor, a dense landing, a comfortable thick steering wheel, a short lever of gearboxes similar to a switch - all this makes you forget that a whole room is behind. The complete feeling that you are sitting if not in sports, then, at least, in a well -charged car. And I want to go, having drowned the accelerator pedal to the floor, with a cold in the chest from rapid acceleration. A rather stiff suspension adds a fraction of adrenaline, shaking conscientiously on potholes. However, by frozen, you understand that this is still not a sports car - in corners on irregularities the car significantly rearranges, you need correction with a steering wheel. Yes, and stretching in front of his eyes, like a comb, a substetrician on a massive hood recalls: the element of Skoda -Superb is a flight along a good highway. Moreover, the flight is silent - even at a maximum speed of about 240 km/h, a quietly working radio drowns out all external noises!
 
The adapted version of the Skoda-Superb with increased road clearance and metal protection of the motor compartment will be supplied to Russia. The first cars will appear in May-June. Prices promise very attractive for a car of this class: from $ 22 thousand per car in the configuration of a classic with a motor of 1.8 liters to $ 32 thousand for a well -equipped eleganes 2.8 liters. The guarantee is given two years or 30 thousand km. The cost of a test car is $ 27 thousand.
 
 
 

At last year's Geneva salon, Skoda showed a prototype Montreus on an elongated Volkswagen-passata platform, and in the fall the car went into a series called Superb. The front -wheel drive sedan is equipped with longitudinally located gasoline motors 2.0; 1.8 (with turbocharged) and 2.8 liters or turbodiesels 1.9 and 2.5 liters. The gearboxes are mechanical five -speed (from 2.5 liters of six -speed), and for the most powerful gasoline and diesel engines - also a five -stage machine.
 
 
The V -shaped six has 30 valves - five per cylinder.
The interior pleases with high quality manufacturing and accuracy of fitting elements.
Uneven digitization of the speedometer with a step of 20 and 30 km/h and even with a circular arrangement of numbers makes it difficult to read the readings.
 

In terms of the length of the rear of the cabin (maximum value L2 \u003d 980 mm) Superb surpasses all classmates: Volvo S80 (875 mm), Ford Mondeo (860 mm), Toyota-Kamri (930 mm), SAAB-9-5 (820 mm) .
 
 
The rear doorway is very wide (1030 mm!), But pursed by a falling roof. The distance to the front seats is just huge!
 
From 1934 to 1949, 889 copies of the prestigious SuperB model were manufactured at Skoda factories. There were even military all -terrain vehicles with this name - from 1941 to 1943 they made 1631. In the photo - the largest (length 5700 mm) and the most powerful SuperB -4000, type 919 (1939-1940): unlike six -cylinder counterparts, He was the only one with an eight -cylinder engine of 4.0 liters, 96 hp.
 

Skoda Superb 2.8
General data: number of places - 5; Equipped mass - 1501 kg; Full mass - 2078kg; maximum speed - 237 km/h; acceleration time from a place to 100 km/h - 8.0 s; fuel consumption in conditional suburban and city cycles - 7.3; 14.3 l/100 km; fuel supply - 62 l; Fuel - AI -95/98. Dimensions, mm: length - 4803; width - 1765; height - 1469; base - 2803; The track in front/back - 1515/1515; Road clearance - 150; trunk volume - 462l; The turning radius is 5.9 m. The engine: gasoline, with distributed injection, V -shaped, six -cylinder, five valves per cylinder, two camshafts in each head, located in front longitudinal; working volume - 2771 SMZ; cylinder diameter and piston stroke - 82.5x86.4 mm; compression degree - 10.6; Power - 142 kW/193 hp at 6000 rpm; The maximum torque is 280 N.M at 3200 rpm. Transmission: front wheel drive; gearbox - mechanical five -speed; Transport numbers: I - 3.50; II - 1.94; III - 1.30; IV - 0.94; V - 0.79; Z.Kh. - 3.44; The main program is 3.70. Suspension: in front - compound transverse levers, stabilizer, subframe, behind - longitudinal levers connected by an elastic transverse beam. Brakes: hydraulic disk with an amplifier, ABS and ESP, front - ventilated. Steering: rheck with an amplifier. Tire size: 205/55R16 (225/45R17).
 
 
 

High assembly quality, powerful motor, excellent dynamics, good brakes, excellent sound insulation, huge length and large height (in the middle part) of the cabin, attractive price.
 

Low doorways, mediocre review through mirrors, uneven digitization of the speedometer, the leg is embarrassed on the accelerator pedals, a hard suspension, a small trunk opening.
 

SUMMARY
Skoda Superb is a regular sedan in shape, in content - almost stretch with the corresponding salon dimensions.
 

The editors thanks the Skoda Autocenter for the car provided for the test. Information about the sale - in the section of dealers' prices.
 
Text / Yuri Nechetov
Photo / Alexander Polunin
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

Source: The magazine "Driving"