Skoda Superb

With a mild facelift and a new engine, we’re trying to figure out which of these two new Superbs you should be putting your money on

- Aatish Mishra

HOW QUIETLY CONFIDENT DID Skoda have to be to name a car Superb? Very, I guess and in all fairness the Superb has really been superb all these years. There’s very little to fault in it and as the old saying goes: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That is exactly what Skoda has done with the Superb for 2020. On the face of it, very little has changed. There are some minor tweaks to the styling and equipment, with a major change being the new 2-litre TSI engine under the hood. But the Superb is a sedan (well, a notchback technically) and the sort of car that has seen better days on the sales charts. The relentless onslaught of SUVs from all sides — from the likes of the Toyota Fortuner at one end, and the Compass, Tucson and even Skoda’s own Kodiaq at the other, and even from premium offerings like the BMW X1 and Merc GLA has leftold-school cars like the Superb a bit lost. In my time with the Superbs, I took it upon myself to answer key questions — between the Sportline and the L&K, which is the better buy? And more importantly, is a car like the Superb still relevant any more?