I will buy it simply for the umbrella.

Plus a spare wheel

*And better looking than SUVs*

This car is super popular amongst the chauffeur driven, here in India.

Because you want dumb SUVs in the USA

Looks better than new BMW 5-series too...

​@@terokaakinen7061 that's not saying much as BMWs design has gone to absolute trash.

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60k full option IV combi in NL

Maybe I missed it but what about your question regarding Superb vs BMW 5series???

Why do you have such a Problem with just writing Leather? What do you think you accomplish by writing "dead animal skin"? Do you belive some people dont know what leather is?

Thank you very much for your interest in this topic. I also bought cars with animal skin leather seats before I did my research and got to know the industry. The most important thing is: With today's modern materials, you have nothing to lose, just to gain. You achieve the same kind of luxury and comfort or even better while having the same or better durability with less impact on humans, animals and the environment. You can use fabric/cloth, microfibre or leatherette. The classic approach is using oil/plastic as source material. Overall, a vehicle contains about 300 kg plastic. A car seat needs about 5 kg plastic. So the overall plastic share for the seats is very low and it is at this moment the most efficient way to produce a car seat. A couple of litres of fuel equals a car seat basically. So if you want to save oil/plastic, rather look at consumption for energy, fuel and heating and to other car parts than the seat. Note that animal skin leather also always contains a plastic coating for durability. However, long-term we should of course find raw oil alternatives. So going further, seats can be made from recyclables (e.g. from PET-bottles or old fishing nets) or even increased share of plant-based materials (like pine oil, canola oil or start-up materials like Pinatex from pineapple leaves or Desertex from cactus fibre or the mixed-plant-based Mirum, so be seen at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iZeRgb2W1MfYnXk.html). On a calculation base, by ditching animal skin leather from car interiors, the amount of emissions (CO2e) is reduced by 85 (!) % (www.press.bmwgroup.com/africa-dom-easteurope/article/detail/T0403389EN/on-the-market-from-2023:-bmw-and-mini-models-with-vegan-interiors?language=en) - and that is a very conservative calculation. So it is at this moment the most important thing you can do to make car interiors more sustainable. A good example for high-end luxury with ventilated animal free seats is the BMW X7 with Sensafin: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z9aCgc6IntTWoqs.html And the Kia EV9 with plant-based oil share: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bNyImLOCzsWxcZ8.html New leatherette materials can be superior in every aspect, even for cleaning: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q59kjLt7nJi5hHU.html More and more natural materials are rising: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pLiDprt2092sdKM.html Also check out what the animal skin leather industry tried to with our channel: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pLaPdtl90ceqnH0.html For seeing how the animals are being treated and transported in the global leather industry, watch this footage: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qtGadqSe1pfDaHk.html Note that the footage is genuine and was recorded by a highly decorated investigative journalist in Germany I know myself personally. Also a group of researchers and German journalists from public media could recent directly trace the connection between car animal leather production and illegal burning down Amazon rain forest: www.daserste.de/information/reportage-dokumentation/ard-story/videos/illegales-leder-video-100.html In a high animal skin grade, the animals are specifically raised for this matter. However even if meat is the "first" misuse case, the hide remains a profitable body part. That means: If manufacturers put animal leather in a car and you demand it as a customer, you give your money to an industry that earns money by oppressing humans, animals and harms the environment, you make them more profitable. Alternatively, you could support industries with your wallet which try to improve the sustainability of materials. Also, if you turn the argument around to "meat is the waste of the leather industry" you realize that it doesn't make sense (and is ethically doubtful) to discuss the primary use of individual body parts of mammals. Mind experiment: You are getting slain down on the street; would it matter to you if it was for your smartphone or for your purse? Remember that animal skin leather is no different to fur, fur is just leather where the hair is still on. And fur is widely not accepted for clothing anymore, and of course not for cars. We cannot change what we have bought in the past, but with more information and compassion we can change how we decide in the future. For a great insight into sustainability in the automotive industry, you can also check out our extensive documentary: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y56Xgbudt63Sl3U.html

@@autogefuehl that is your professional opinion that I can value, however only point of feedback; leather is leather, vegan leather is also dine, but I still prefer leather. Animal skin is the only point I do not like about your videos, the rest is 10/10 awesome.

The worst thing is that BMW have nobody but themselves to blame for their awful looking grilles. My understanding is they're doing it to appeal to the Chinese market, to appeal to a different aesthetic to EU buyers, mostly because BMW have about as much of the EU market as they'll ever have, so no growth potential here. It is kind of funny if that's true because rear seat legroom used to be, and probably still is a huge thing for Chinese cars, which is why Skoda took a Passat 20+ years ago, added a few cm to the wheelbase to make more rear legroom and sent it to China as the first Superb Limousine and discovered plenty of other people liked the idea too. Most cars can't comfortably seat actual adults in the rear at all.

its 38k euro base model 4.9 meter long car with 10 inch infotainment. its cheap and only when you understand this car on test is what, 50k euro that this is bullshit from Volkswagen again.

Yeah the cloth will get dirty very quick

cloth dashboards for sure will be more durable than ecoleather...

@@TheHammondPLThe cloth looks really cheap. It will definitely not be more durable than vinyl.

Nothing special about a car with a fabric dash other than it is used by virtually no manufacturer (for good reason). I’m sure it would be a very cheap lease.

Not sure how durable it needs to be. Apart from an occasional light dusting, I don't think anything or anyone has ever touched the dashboard of any car I've ever owned.

perhaps bmw has caught up

The main designer at Skoda is the old designer from BMW. So you are correct, Skodas actually look like the old generation of BMWs (to some degree).

@@gdgrim The Skoda designer left to work for BMW, then Rolls Royce and now to MG. Current designer is there since 2017 and comes from within VW. But I generally agree about the similarity between the two brands. Skoda does look more like BMW than the most recent BMW do!

​@@PlaAwaJoker. Bmw is a class above.

@@ondrejfenclcom I stand corrected.

interior is much cheaper than in old version, go take a look in RL you will be dissapointed at how bad it is.

That's illegal

Yeah just don't tell me the superb is more comfortable than a 5 series luxury

@@raiiiar it is 😂😂😂😂

It really is​@@raiiiar

​@@vityczits not. Ive sat in both cars plenty of times. Bmw is a class above. Skoda doesnt touch BMW's Air Suspension. That doesnt mean the Skoda is bad! I really like the Car and do think its one of the best price/performance offerings out there. But saying that its ABOVE a 5 series or E-Class in pretty much anything is cope.

​@@kudomion.No its not. Refer to my comment one above.

All car manufacturers should add Thomas’ “BLUP” as a speed limit warning chime in the EU :)

the Passat, superb, golf, Octavia. ...facelifts, to they get the alltrack/scout version?

From a personal experience I can tell there's 0 issues with maintain that fabric.

Thanks for the feedback!

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Plz the more u talk, the more I see how much u dont understand about cars. Compare 5 series to this 😂

sure, passat aka superb compared to 5 series? Thats like kids car compared to actual car. No matter of design or styling

@@Sp1k3eThe new 5-Series has a really cheap interior for a BMW and also has a terrible design. I’ve been in the new generation 5-Series as well as the new B9 Passat and honestly the Passat had a nicer interior in some areas. Now the previous generation 5-Series on the other hand is way better than both of those cars.

@@Swiss4.2 I have experience only with facelift previous gen 5er, but new looked ok so far. And I don't really pay attention to most comments about styling etc. which for the last 5+ years are completely of (haha M3 ugly and now its the best selling M ever, same with X5, X7 haha insane grill - but the cars are perfect and I see tons of them on road). Quality wise EU brands probably peaked around 2020 (from 00 a 10s trash plastic interiors) and maybe the quality is coming down again, idk.

Stop lying 😂

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thanks my friend :-)

At this moment just for the combi indeed

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Thanks 🙏 u can still use recuperation then

Guaranteed it gets worse, but you'll be able to see out the back window, so it's not all bad.

Yes because the gear selector is on the right side. But I never touch the wiper control myself since the automatic works quite well imo

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And reliable my 2016 octavia 2.0 tdi with 270000 km with zero problems

If it weighs under 2 tonnes and isn't actively designed to kill pedestrians it's not welcome in the US 😞. A KZfaq channel called 'Not Just Bikes' made a fantastic video a while back charting the history of the SUV and the massive damage it has done, especially in the US where most manufacturers aren't even making cars now. Pedestrian deaths are back to 1970s levels, as are fuel economy figures, because when US car makers failed to lobby fuel economy laws away, they moved to making 'light trucks' and marketing them to people who actually wanted cars, as the economy rules didn't apply to trucks.

I'm interested to see if they do a Scout version. The only features some SUVs offer that would come in useful is more ground clearance than other cars and 4WD.

Indeed so far only on the Combi!

Thanks m8!

The best thing about Skodas is that the hatch is the same length as the estate, so you have nearly 2 m of space behind the front seats with the back seats folded down. If you carry the bike fully assembled (Which is not a problem in the estate), you might find the handlebars get in the way of closing the hatch because of the lower height there. As for fuel, if there's a difference of 0.1 l/100km between them, you'll have to drive 1000 km to save a liter of fuel. My record (In a Mk2 Superb estate is 3 bikes, 3 people and a full set of camping gear for everyone, all in the car without anyone being squeezed). The bikes did have wheels removed though.

Exterior wise superb interior and performance wise 5 series is top notch

it looks yes. drive both back 2 back and there is no comparison, the bmw is clearly a 2x better car. much better sound insulation in the bmw, dynamics is miles better, engines a bit better, gearbox miles better (ZF 8 speed torque converter), ambient lighting is in another league, same with headlights, so on and so forth.

That's impressive range, I've seen over 1100 km on my 13 year old Superb if it's getting steady intercity use and I could get plenty more if I hypermiled it, but I took a driving holiday across a chunk of Ireland, Spain and France earlier this year and filled up twice in 2000 km (And it was most of a month later before I filled it again). The Greenline Superbs are significantly better on fuel, but their lower ride height is an issue on bigger speed bumps especially when loaded. Also I occasionally need to overtake slow traffic, and the 200+ bhp engine map I'm running makes this a pleasure - having nearly twice the power of the Greenline makes a huge difference and the best thing about diesels is that when it doesn't need the power it doesn't burn the fuel.

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