Superb Combi a job well done by Skoda

WE HAVE often talked in these columns about the “more-for-less” policies which have stood Skoda in good stead in recent years.

With both the Octavia and the Superb, the Czech arm of the VW empire has produced cars which are bigger, more practical, and more capable than they should be, and it has reaped a whirlwind of new customers to the brand — not least of which are farmers and taximen who have jumped aboard the Skoda bandwagon in huge numbers.

But it is not just those arbiters of a good motor that have been convinced — it is right across the board. Apart from ne’er-do-wells who find only faults, I know of very few people who have been disappointed with Skoda.