Mention of the Skoda Superb on another thread got me wondering. I never seem to see the things. Is it that they are not selling in big numbers, or that they don't happen to be selling well in my area, or that I am just unobservant, and that every time I see one, I mistake it for an Octavia?
So - does anyone know how the Skoda Superb is selling?
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Hi - I have rarely seen one on the road but they are fairly anonymous. Our local Skoda dealer usually has demonstrators for sale - but no second hand ones. Screen prices are expensive but I have not yet tried to cut a deal.
Never seen one advertised by a third party or at a car supermarket.
Most seem to be manual which would not interest me in a car this size.
I live in hope! Regards DougB.
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I went to a car supermarket in January to give one a 'once over' for a potential buyer. It was a 2002/03 IIRC, with about 15k mi. on it. I can't remember the price, but I do remember thinking that it was cheap and represented very good value. There was nothing wrong with it. I suspect it looks so much like the Octavia that people don't notice them. It was a manual trans.
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Local Skoda dealer (Waarington) had 5 on the forecourt this week, 4 were diesels, one was Auto rest were manual.
Looking at them I would say 2 were ex demos and the others were were trade ins. All between 02 and 04 reg inc a 2.5TD auto with full leather for c£15k. The others were between c£10-£12k.
as always
Mark
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I was only thinking teh othe rday that you hardly see any; I think I've seen about half a dozen since they were introduced. I'd be quite keen on one once they get to 'bangernomics' prices ;-)
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Probably a case of there being too many VW Passats around at competetive prices. Prague is full of Superbs - mainly taxis of course.
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excuse my ignorance but what does IIRC mean
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IIRC it means If I Remember/Recall Correctly
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Adam
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They are trying to sell 2.8 auto Superbs for the price of a Merc C 200k (e class size for the price of a c) in India. That is 30000 + pounds -(duties, taxes etc) - people still run for the Mercs and honda accords which cost around 25000 pounds. Howver, Octavias sell like hot cakes
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My data is about 6 months old but the parc is showing 5,700 of all derivatives.
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Ive seen quite a few used as taxis, along with loads of octavias used as taxis! A more 'complete' shape IMO, as opposed to the hatch/saloon hybrid shape of the octavia.
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So - does anyone know how the Skoda Superb is selling?
There's a surprisingly large number of them on Autotrader, but that could be 'cos they are not selling
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Used prices are pretty strong, so I suppose the answer is 'well enough.' Lots of them are taxis though.
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IIRC Skoda UK announced when the Superb went on sale they only planned to import 1000 examples per year, So that is why you don't see many.
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The ones that are around look so like the Passat that most people would not recognise them as a Superb.
I bought an Octavia a couple of years ago, and toyed with the idea then of having a Superb instead. But I was put off by :
a) the silly name
b) the fact that the one the dealer was trying to sell me was in a dreadful grey colour and had no alloys (which are surely a must on what is supposed to be an executive car)
c) the wife hated it - loads of rear legroom, but very little space in the boot.
So we bought the Octavia instead - but I sold it about a year later, as it had so many squeaks and rattles!
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