New Skoda Superb options revealed
Author: Chris Barker
Published: 07 August 2008
With the new Skoda Superb set to be launched in the UK on September 18, the Volkswagen-owned D-segment saloon car manufacturer has intervened with timely details of its forthcoming options packages.Having garnered much press attention with news of its innovative Twindoor design - is it a saloon or is it a hatchback? - and upper-medium saloon buyer-enticing price structure (starting from £15,490) to rival the best, you may not have been aware that the new Superb offers much more to crow about, whence you scratch the surface.All new Skoda Superb model buyers can opt for any one, or mixture, of the following amongst other things; Smoking Pack - a cigarette lighter and ashtray that sits in the cup-holder - is £250, floor mats are £50, electric sliding solar sunroof is £800 and what must surely be Skoda’s way of saying rear tinted windows – Sunset glass from b-pillar back for £205. Park Assist is available for everyone, whatever your budget.For just £350 on top of your new Skoda Superb SE and Elegance down payment, your car will identify a viable parking space a long time before you do, and negotiate the tight, almost humanely impossible angles for you.You can also kiss goodbye to the demeaning exhibitions you put yourself through every time you parallel park in public – and a mere £630 - on the new entry level Superb S too.A four-spoke multi-function steering wheel with all the associated infotaining paraphernalia – radio and telephone predominantly – and wired up for Bluetooth GSM III and Maxidot trip-computer facilitation is an £870 option on the Superb S, and takes a three-spoke turn for more or less the equivalent in both the Superb SE (£655) and Elegance (£350). Yet after this, options become more selective.The easy-peasy DSG semi-automated transmission – complete with F1 style flappy paddles - comes into its own on the Superb SE and Elegance only for example. Whilst sat nav doesn’t feature on the Superb S, but is something you can ask for on the SE – but confusingly not the top-ranging Elegance – and the same rule applies to wood décor. Which you can spec on both Princely and King’s ransom Superb models.
Rear side airbags at £250 a throw will ensure your passenger is well prepared, and agreeing that there’s no price you can put on safety at the end of the day, you can request that on all new models.And then there’s the things that you still think you can’t live without, yet in all likelihood, could if you put your mind to it. There’s no arguing that a tyre pressure monitor is a nifty, useful piece of extra curricular kit, and for £100 on the Superb S and SE models it has to be.Naturally enough, the new Skoda Superb’s standard spec pretty much saves you requesting a biro and ticking any further boxes as you stand in the showroom. We’re talking about ESP, Twindoor, seven airbags, electric windows and alloy wheels for a kick off.
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