Once you could buy a Škoda Superb in a luxury version with a V6 TDI engine and a manual, even in this condition it is a rarity today
9 hours ago | Peter Miller
Photo: Basti, published with permission
The idea of any new Škoda with a six-cylinder engine seems completely surreal today, and if it was even a diesel, it would be a perfect utopia. But even such an engine could once be bought for a Superb, even with a manual gearbox. This is one of the few preserved pieces.
Anyone who likes cars and didn’t live through the beginning of the new millennium in the “car boom” must be a happier person today. It is absolutely fascinating from today’s point of view what versions of new cars of all kinds were offered back then, something like this has never come back and we fear it never will.
It doesn’t really matter if you can think of anything from an Alfa Romeo 147 to a Volkswagen Golf IV, you could have almost anything in two words. Alfa could be had with gasoline from 1.6 R4 to 3.2 V6, in addition to several diesels, a number of transmissions. But the true experts in variability were at VW, when even an ordinary Golf could be equipped with four-, five- and six-cylinder engines, front and all-wheel drives, automatic transmissions of several types, and three types of bodywork (or five, if we count the Boro as well). Today’s range of engines, drives and transmissions for practically anything more ordinary is a mockery.
Škoda also profited from this situation at the time, which offered, among other things, the first generation Superb. Although it was a relatively unsuccessful car from today’s point of view, you could also have it in a flood of motorizations. So it happened that a six-cylinder turbodiesel got into a personal Škoda for the first time – and unfortunately also for the last time. Believe it or not, today a dead type of engine even for cars like smaller Mercedes, it was possible to have an ordinary Superb under the hood, alongside several four-cylinder variants and another six-cylinder.
It was a 2.5 TDI engine, from today’s point of view a bit archaic with 163 hp, but let’s be fair – the range of 1.9 TDI versions for the Superb ended at 130 hp at the time, so this was an option to aim even higher. And it wasn’t so much about performance as it was about elegance, this is a fine engine next to the TDI PD units with four cylinders. It’s quite understandable that whoever bought this car usually drove it heavily, it’s the highway cruiser par excellence. The vast majority of sold cars have been in junkyards for a long time or are sitting in the corners of bazaars with many hundreds of thousands of kilometers on them. But the three owners of the car in the photos below were not like that.
The car with this drive and luxurious specification with a number of extras saved quite a bit, so after 17 years in the world it still has an acceptable 160,900 km. This is really not enough for such an old Superb V6 TDI, and although the car is far from new, even in this condition the six-cylinder version today represents a rare offer. In addition, it should be added that the engine in this case is connected to a manual gearbox, which was exotic even then for a six-cylinder diesel. Today… Well, we’d rather not deliver the night.
He is seriously a great messenger from the past, whose existence some will not even believe. But this car is real and can be yours for 5,799 euros, i.e. about 143,000 crowns. Whether it is too much or too little, judge for yourself, if you are interested in it, you have to go to see the private owner from far away in Bremerhaven, Germany. But this car can certainly be worth it to someone.
Skoda actually once offered a car with a V6 TDI engine, it was the first generation Superb. Even in combination with a manual gearbox, this piece is reminiscent of this to this day. Photo: Basti, published with permission
Source: Skoda Superb 2.5 TDI V6 [email protected]
Petr Miler
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2024-01-01 13:52:40
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