Skoda Combi review (22/08/2012)

I’M sick of telling you all how good the Skoda Superb is. I’ve been saying it for years now and while many of you have been listening the message does not appear to have reached as many people as it should have.

It has been around since 2001 in various guises, but the current, second generation version has certainly been feted here since we first saw it in 2008, and that has also been the case with the estate ‘Combi’ version first seen at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show.

Although essentially a ‘stretched’ VW Passat — at 2,761 mm, it is 52 mm longer than its Wolfsburg relative — Skoda has upped the ante in many ways for the Superb, not least with top drawer specifications and interiors which have ditched Skoda’s previously economic use of high grade materials and which give a hint of exclusivity which might shock even those familiar with the brand.