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DISCOVER TOP TOWCAR
SUPERB
PERFORMANCE
SUPERB BY NAME, SUPERB
BY NATURE? CLIVE WHITE
TESTS 2009’S CARAVAN
CLUB TOWCAR OF
THE YEAR
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OU MIGHT think it a touch come the next revolution, citizens, and Rear legroom is one of its remarkable
conceited to name a car with some help from the folks from features. Front legroom’s okay, too.
‘Superb’, especially when its Volkswagen,
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Skoda arose again. Normally my long legs see most cars’
maker once hung the ‘Rapid’ handle on Mind you, back in 1934 when
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Skoda driving seats forced against their
a car that was anything but. Though first applied the Superb tag, it was backstops; but not so in the Superb.
that was in
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Skoda’s bad old days when, making some rather grand motor cars With my seat appropriately positioned,
through no fault of its own, the once of the calibre to appeal to the important I could hop into the back seat and
proud motor maker found itself forced people of the time, including royalty. comfortably stretch out behind myself.
to turn out cheap products for the good Our mythical ‘royals’ would also
of the communist comrades. Then CABIN COMFORT appreciate the Superb’s thoughtfully
again, perhaps the Rapid name showed While you might not see royalty wafting provided umbrella in the nearside rear
˘
Skoda actually had a keener sense of by in a
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Skoda, they’d be happy with the door (well, at least the nearside rear
humour than some of its mockers. But, space in the back of today’s Superb. royal would).
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