Skoda Elroq vRS: the family-friendly SUV gets spicy
Skoda's brilliant new Elroq has just gone and got its tracksuit on. The compact family SUV received a sporty makeover, gaining the brand's iconic vRS badge in the process.
The new all-electric performance model follows a long line of vRS Skodas that link to the brand's rally heritage – vRS stands for victory rally sport. Iconic vRS models in the past include the Skoda Fabia and Octavia models, as well as the Elroq's bigger relative the electric Enyaqm and the Kodiaq seven-seat SUV.
With the Elroq's largest 84kWh battery on board, the vRS model adds four-wheel drive courtesy of two electric motors on the front and back axles. The combined power output is 336bhp, enough to accelerate the Elroq vRS from 0 to 62mph in just 5.4 seconds.
The power boost is accompanied by a sports chassis that has been lowered by 15mm at the front and 10mm at the rear, with adaptive shock absorber settings that have been reconfigured for sportier responses. The steering has been revamped for a more responsive feel, too.
There's a healthy kit list, with the 13in infotainment screen also getting vRS graphics (Skoda)
It's not just the car that's fast. The Skoda Elroq vRS gets fast charging, too, with speeds up to 185kW enabling a 10 to 80 per cent recharge in 26 minutes. Given the performance on offer, Skoda still claims a decent maximum range of 340 miles.
Outside, Skoda's new Modern Solid design language gets a sporty update. The Tech Deck replaces a traditional grille and hides many of the Elroq's safety sensors, with illuminated 'eyelashes' that blend into the LED daylight running lights above the headlights. The lights create a light show when the car is locked or unlocked – which can be done with the key hidden away in a pocket or bag by just approaching or walking away from the car.
Exclusive 21in alloys, matrix LED headlights, plus black accents on the window trim, door mirrors and Skoda lettering on the front and back are all vRS features, while vRS badging appears on the front wings. There's also a vRS-specific colour: Hyper Green.
The Skoda Elqroq vRS comes in an exclusive 'hyper green' colour (Skoda)
Inside, there's suedia microfibre upholstery with lime green stitching across the dash and on the heated sports seats, while there's also carbon-look trim. The sports steering wheel is covered in perforated leather and also gets lime-green stitching along with a vRS badge. Stainless-steel pedal covers complete the sporty makeover.
The vRS is a new range-topper for the Elroq family, so there's a healthy kit list with the 13in infotainment screen also getting vRS graphics, while there's augmented reality for the head-up display, a 12-speaker Canton audio system and plenty of Skoda's 'Simply Clever' features. That means the usual umbrella in the door and ice scraper in the rear hatch, plus an adjustable parcel shelf that can be stored behind the rear seats and has a net to store the car's charging cable.
The Elroq vRS was revealed at Milan Design Week and is expected in UK showrooms in the summer. Prices will be revealed soon, but with the most expensive Elroq you can currently buy costing £41,600, we'd expect the vRS to be somewhere north of £45,000.
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This Superb is classed as a new model generation (the fourth), although its underpinnings – the Volkswagen Group MQB platform – and powertrains remain familiar. The key point is that it was developed alongside the new VW Passat but with Skoda rather than Volkswagen taking the development lead, which explains why the few compromises that previously affected the Superb have been overcome this time around. Speccing our car was easy: I'll have it in the exact five-star form from the road test, please. Estate body, 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbo diesel engine and mid-range SE L trim. The only real variety comes from the options list: Graphite Grey metallic paint rather than Ice Tea Yellow, an 18in spacesaver spare wheel (because potholes) and an electric towbar, just in case I suddenly get bored of writing and decide to open a burger van. As such, this car costs £41,675. Skoda is definitively no longer a budget brand, but given the Superb's size, that still represents tremendous value for money to me. Being absolutely honest, had I been speccing a Superb for myself, I would have been reluctant to select the diesel. But while diesels are in seemingly inexorable decline, they remain a terrific option for a certain use case. Which perhaps explains why there seems to be something of a mini-renaissance of firms offering diesels, particularly within the Volkswagen Group. There's even a mini-renaissance of diesels on our fleet: magazine editor Rachel Burgess recently took delivery of an Audi A3 Sportback (Autocar, 31 December 2024) powered by the same 148bhp engine as this Superb. The two are similarly priced, too: it will be interesting to see if the Audi hatchback's premium sheen or the Skoda estate's practicality wins out. In terms of ensuring the Superb gets seen in an ideal light, I have several long journeys lined up and a conga line of colleagues with large items to move forming behind me. And that should be a treat: during road testing, the Superb managed 765 miles on a single tank of fuel, the sort of number that's incomprehensible to someone who has been running electric cars in recent years. This is actually a car for that person who claims they can't buy an EV just in case they need to drive from Inverness to Truro without stopping. When said apocryphal driver does reach Truro, they will also be able to buy all the Cornish pasties. This estate's boot capacity is a whopping 690 litres even before you fold down the rear seats, and the boxy shape makes it really practical to use. How big is 690 litres in reality? Let me give you an example. The Superb arrived with me shortly before Christmas, so one of my first journeys in it was to visit family in the West Country for the holidays (yes, there was some Chris Rea...). When I loaded up the car for the trip, my bags of presents didn't even fill half the boot. What I had thought was a festive bounty suddenly made me feel like Scrooge McDuck. At least I was a comfortable miser: on initial acquaintance, the interior of the Superb is glorious. It being a traditional estate, the driving position is nice and low, and while the infotainment touchscreen is big (13in) it's well placed and nicely complemented by physical switchgear. In particular, I m a big fan of the multitunctional Smart Dials, which control various infotainment and heating controls. Undoubtedly, the Superb is a large, long car. When parked, the rear of the boot probably sits in a separate postcode from the bonnet. But it's still relatively narrow and is proving surprisingly easy to navigate. 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The dials on the le and right cycle through controls for the cabin temperature and the seat heating and cooling for their respective sides of the car (if you hold down the driver-side dial when on the heating mode, it syncs the vent temperatures). The central dial can be programmed for up to four functions, including the direction of the air vents, infotainment volume, driving modes and map zoom. Each dial contains a little digital display showing you what operation is selected at that moment. And, frankly, they're brilliant. They're clear, easy to find when you're driving and pleasingly tactile: they've got a nice feel and click neatly when you turn them. Best of all, in an era when physical controls are under threat as more and more functions are operated via touchscreens, the Smart Dials feel like a really neat solution. 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In my job as a road tester, test cars come and go all the time. With most of them, I'm glad to have had the experience and don't look back, but with this one I'm sad that it's departing. It's not the most exciting thing in the world, but it is just so good, so useful, so complete. It does almost everything so effortlessly. Of course there were a few minor niggles. Towards the end, it developed a glitch where the volume control would stop working if you switched between Apple CarPlay and the native so ware a few times. Switching to the radio and back to CarPlay would reset it. I don't love how you have to twist the gear selector and I wish the car had standard cruise control and a more intelligent auto hold system. But that's all extremely minor stuff. Overall it has been brilliant. I won't repeat the five-star road test verdict here, because it still applies, but in short, it's not just that this car is big, practical and fuel ef cient, it's that it also feels luxurious inside, rides well, has a minimal number of annoyances and, when you point it at a corner, actually handles well too. When a major car maker stops for a moment trying to be desperately trendy with too many flashing lights, cartoon characters dancing across enormous screens and 'sporty' suspension for the sake of it, it sometimes results in a really good, fit-for-purpose car. The Superb is that car. 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