2020 Skoda Superb

This one-off, 470bhp Skoda Superb ‘Sleeper Edition’ is the only car you’ll ever need

Big turbo. 4WD. Massive boot. Unassuming looks. An umbrella in the door! The ultimate Q car?

Welcome to perhaps the only car you’ll ever need. A practical, unassuming, quietly sensible estate that’ll slot into your life and into the world around you without causing any fuss whatsoever.
It’ll also likely embarrass any number of performance cars, because this practical, unassuming quietly sensible estate is the Skoda Superb ‘Sleeper Edition’, and it contains an entirely unsensible 470bhp 4WD drivetrain built by a team responsible for sending an equally unsensible Octavia to 227mph at Bonneville.

Take note then, BMW, for this is how you do a proper undercover performance wagon. It’s sadly a one-off, spun from the bones of the old third-generation Superb Estate by UK engineering firm RE Performance.
Taking the then-fastest Superb Estate as its base – the 2.0-litre TSI 4x4 with 276bhp – RE bolted on a new Garrett PowerMax turbocharger and a performance intercooler kit, optimised the fuel system because it needs a helluva lot more fuel, and upgraded the intake. One suspects it sprinkled in a wee splash o’ witchcraft, too.

 
Skoda students have turned this Superb Estate into a bike-carrying pickup truck

Plug-in hybrid Superb becomes a ute with a clever bike rack and a sliding rear door to support pro bike racers

Skoda loves cycling. Of course, the Czech firm started out with Václav Laurin and Václav Klement making bicycles all the way back in 1895, and in slightly more recent times it has been a main partner of the Tour de France for over two decades.

So it’s perhaps no surprise this year’s concept car produced by the students of the Skoda Academy in Mladá Boleslav is a cyclist's dream support vehicle. Christened the Skoda L&K 130, this is the first Skoda student concept to be based on the Superb Estate, and the kids have turned it into a rad pickup style thing with space for two bikes on the racks in the extendable bed, and another on the roof.

Set to be shown off at the Tour de France in July, this thing also gets a sliding rear passenger door that can be opened safely alongside riders in a pro bike race. On the inside there’s extra displays for the passengers to see erm… cycling data, plus a cool box in place of the left rear seat and a large storage net attached to the underside of the roof for “small items such as energy bars or bandages”.

There are retro Laurin & Klement badges all over and that matching white, red and gold paint, and the whole thing is based on the plug-in hybrid Superb so it’ll run silently on electric power when required.


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