With fewer buttons behind the buttons
Skoda is working on a new generation Superb, which mainly does much the same as its predecessors. A fresh set of photos shows the new Skoda Superb Combi again and this time the Czech ballroom also shows some of its interior.
The Opel Insignia will go out of production this year, the Ford Mondeo has not been for sale for a while and the Renault Talisman is no longer available in the Netherlands. This means that the traditional D-segmenter is pretty much on the line, but Volkswagen and Skoda just come up with new generations of successively the Passat and Superb. On these spy photos you see the new Superb as a Combi again. For the first time we can see the inside of the Czech.
It is not the first time that we can show you the new Skoda Superb in test suit. The previously photographed example was also a Superb Combi, although we expect that there will be a traditional five-door liftback again. Although the Superb has been available in two body styles for years, it is no longer so obvious that the Superb will return with a flatter rear window. After all, Volkswagen only carries the new Passat as a Variant.
In terms of appearance, the large Skoda therefore follows a different path than its Volkswagen brother, but otherwise the two are very similar, especially on a technical level. Underneath, we expect to encounter further development of the current MQB platform in both models. The current Skoda Superb has the well-known Virtual Cockpit behind the steering wheel, a digital instrumentation that is separate from the infotainment screen, which is still relatively traditionally integrated in the center console.
Interior Skoda Superb, complete with large infotainment screen.
The new Superb seems to lose a lot of physical buttons. We see an apparently uncovered display behind the steering wheel that functions as a digital clock shop. In the center tunnel we observe an unprecedentedly large vertically oriented screen for Skoda, which belongs to the infotainment system. Below it we seem to see a touch-sensitive island of buttons with which you control the climate control, among other things. It seems that almost all other functions are housed in the screen.
In addition to petrol and diesel engines, we also expect a plug-in hybrid Superb iV. A fully electric powertrain is not in the pipeline.
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