New Skoda Superb nearly here

The 2025 Skoda Superb should reach Australian showrooms within the next two months, as the local arm of the Czech company continues to re-arm its depleted and outdated model lines with fresh metal.

Speaking to carsales at the recent pre-production drive of the new 2025 Skoda Elroq battery-electric small SUV, Volkswagen Group Australia Acting General Manager Corporate Communications, Daniel DeGasperi, said that the Superb was “Not too far away; June/July – we’re just working out timing.”

The 2025 Skoda Superb re-joins a segment that was historically the Australian car market’s most popular – with the likes of the Ford Falcon and Holden Commodore, large cars accounted for 36 per cent of sales at the turn of the century.

In contrast, the ‘Large < $70K’ segment in the first quarter of 2025 represents 0.2 per cent of the market, according to industry statistician VFACTS.

In 2024 three models (the outgoing Superb and now defunct Kia Stinger and Citroen C5 X) slugged it out for 192 sales between them, itself a solid 92 per cent slide on the category’s 2023 sales figures.

It’s likely the new Superb will bump over the $70K price point (the outgoing sedan was already set at $69,990 and the wagon at $71,990), finally giving the death notice for the segment. The Skoda Superb is then likely join the Audi A6, BMW 5-Series and Mercedes Benz E-Class in the ‘Large > $70K’ segment, which VFACTS will likely rename.

While the locally produced large sedans such as the Ford Falcon and Holden Commodore led the car market for decades up until the early to mid-2000s, their sales declined as the market pivoted towards SUVs and utes.

Soon both the Falcon and Commodore were gone, Holden the last to turn out the lights in 2017. Even Skoda’s sibling Volkswagen has abandoned hope for selling its medium-size Passat sedan and wagon in Australia, the model petering out in 2023.

As we detailed earlier, the new fourth-generation Skoda Superb will follow the outgoing model by being offered exclusively in top-spec Sportline trim, in both sedan and wagon formats.

The Superb Sportline due in Oz in a matter of months runs a 195kW/400Nm 2.0-litre turbo-petrol engine, seven-speed dual-clutch transmission and all-wheel drive.

With is sports suspension, the Superb Sportline sits 15mm lower than lower-spec Superbs. Wheels are 18-inch alloys, while standard equipment runs to Matrix LED headlights, a unique three-spoke leather steering wheel, a black headliner, carbon door and dashboard trim, sport pedals and ambient lighting.

Sportline graphics also adorn the 13-inch infotainment system and 10-inch digital instrument cluster.

The exterior features a body kit and lashings of gloss black exterior trim details, as well as a rear spoiler for the sedan and roof rails for the wagon.

DeGasperi also noted Skoda’s busy launch schedule of new models heading our way, following the launch of the Skoda Superb. “Elroq, Enyaq and Kodiak RS have pretty similar start-of-production dates, so we’ve just got to work it out,” he said. “We’ll probably do Elroq first, then Enyaq. Late August, early September, something like that.”

Beyond these models, Skoda will also launch PHEV versions of its seven-seat SUV, the Kodiak, and the Superb, with both slated to arrive in early 2026.

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