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I'd hardly called the remote boot a Skoda innovation. Volvo have had one for over two years (XC70) and so have Audi (Q7). I'm sure there are others.
I do however think that it's a really cute TV ad.
Funny ad, but unless my packages/luggage start unloading & loading themselves then I don't see it as a particularly handy feature. Maybe if you had a dog? Or a man-servant when you pulled up in the drive, but then isn't your man-servant the ultimate remote control?
Although the brochure doesn't spell it out, I assume the automatic boot closing is part of the power tailgate option, which could be handy for the missus given it did seem to be quite heavy.
A $790 option is the electrically operated tailgate with automatic retractable luggage compartment cover that rolls back to the middle position upon opening for easy access.
No pricing on the other options as yet.
Skoda Superb wagon: first drive | Review | carsguide.com.au
"The 2.0TDI would be our pick for long distances. It’s amazingly quiet and frugal yet has plenty of mid-range urge to keep things interesting. We didn’t get a chance to try out the 118TSI but our experience in VWs and the Octavia have been favourable. The overall fit and finish of the Superb wagon was, well, superb.
The wagon is yet another brand builder that is clearly going to prove to many people that this Czech brand is no longer a poor cousin to its German parent."
I don't see it as a particularly handy feature. Maybe if you had a dog?
If you are like my son and can only just reach the grab handle on the tailgate when standing on tip toes with the car at exactly the correct angle it would be a good feature.
I guess the same goes for the lady I saw using hers on her Q7 one day. She just toucjed the magic button in the boot and the tailgate closed. There is no way she would have been able to reach up and grab it and still look lady like.
If you are like my son and can only just reach the grab handle on the tailgate when standing on tip toes with the car at exactly the correct angle it would be a good feature.
I guess the same goes for the lady I saw using hers on her Q7 one day. She just toucjed the magic button in the boot and the tailgate closed. There is no way she would have been able to reach up and grab it and still look lady like.
good point, ESP since the missus does most of the driving. Even more so once the bub arrives. Could actually be really handy for her, and a child in a few years. I may end up a convert yet.
WOW!!, if they can't increase volumes off reviews like this they might as well close the doors and buy more Volkswagen stock.
GoAuto have been a little iffy with Skoda in general butt this is a real "balls and all" review, they have even bagged their much loved VW product in comparison to the Superb Wagon, essentially stating there is no contest between the two.
Reading the article makes me nod my head and say "yeah, i know" and "it's about time you blokes caught up" but i also have thoughts of past exceptional reviews e.g. 118TSi DSG Octavia Wag getting wheels magazine "Gold Star COTY" for the mid size category and Skoda Australia doing NOTHING to promote the fact.
I am astonished that a vehicle that won Top Gears "Luxury COTY", out classing the new E Class wagon, was launched 7 weeks LATE, minimal (and in some cases no stock) and with almost NO fan fair apart from what the journalists offered. The media have been quite open armed to this new line up but what does it mean to the intended audience who know ZIIIiiIPP about what it is or what it represents.
The logic seems to be 'Volkswagen grew rapidly through the media, and we will follow the same path '.
This is shockingly simplistic and bypasses the true core reasons as to why VW was able to enter through the "back door" so to speak. VW in 2001 was here but the numbers, although exceeding Skoda to date, were (to be kind) niche at best. The one draw card they had was the BEETLE, it was the nostalgic string puller manufacturers dream of!!
It brought cliental from a demographic, who had in a lot of ways disconnected with the product, to a point of wonderment and appreciation on how far it had come in the last 40 years or more. It also made a direct correlation as to where these people were n their lives now.
IT LITERALLY ENCOMPASSED AN ENTIRE GENERATION AND MIRROR IMAGED WHAT THEY FELT THEY HAD ACHIEVED IN THEIR LIVES to date, AS OPPOSED TO WHAT THEY WERE IN THE "OLD DAYS".
THEY HAD GROWN AND BECOME MORE SOPHISTICATED AND SO HAD THEIR FONDLY REMEMBERED "FIRST CAR" and the manufacturer behind it, it was brought a sense of luxury they felt they had deserved, it really wasn't "just a car" to this audience.
Once in the showroom they would then be drawn to ehe likes of Golf/Bora when practicality won out over and from here the product developed notoriety and growth.
The "Australian" general perception is that Skoda offers nothing at this point other than novelty value, people do not remember them with nostalgic fondness. In fact most have NOOOOO idea who they are and what they can offer and the ones that do remember the name LAUGH or CRINGE.
You can quote me on this Skoda Australia will see no progression and will decline progressively on annual growth (in comparison to its counterparts overall market share and volume) if they do not start advertising the following:
WHO THEY ARE
WHAT THEY DO BETTER
AND WHAT IT CAN OFFER TO THE AUSTRALIAN CONSUMER
As it stands a massive portion of their intended audience does not have knowledge on any of the above mentioned.
You can't consider buying something you do not know exists.
Maybe this whole "painfully slow growth" is a self fulfilling prophecy they are determined to see come to fruition
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