Fleet preview Skoda Elroq
With all the usual Skoda virtues and striking catwalk looks the Elroq is far more than just a budget version of the Enyaq EV. Pete Tullin reports.
Exterior:
The Elroq brings an end to Skoda’s obsession with extravagant gaping grilles, replacing the bigger is better approach with an infinitely sleeker front end. Featuring slender LED upper lights, which combine daytime running lights and indicators, these jewel-like illuminators sit neatly above a quartet of oblong headlight projectors scythed seamlessly into the front bumper. Completing this sharper frontal visage is the “Tech- Deck Face” – a gloss-black panel containing rafts of sensors and cameras which inform the Elroq’s myriad driver assistance tech. On top-spec models, 36 individual Matrix LED segments are governed by five lighting
modes specifically designed to enhance city, country, highway, all-weather and tourist driving, the latter switching orientation to compensate for driving abroad. Along with an end to grilles big enough to swallow small children, the company’s winged roundel has also been consigned to the annals of history, replaced by front and rear uppercase Skoda branding. Viewed from the rear three- quarters, the Elroq looks less radical, bearing a strong resemblance to its petrol-powered Karoq sibling. Taken from page one of the designers’ handbook, the wheel arches, lower bumpers and sill panels are enhanced by robust, black plastic mouldings to promote that essential tough-edged SUV styling.
Interior:
Regarding perceived quality, the Elroq is right up there with the best models currently being produced by the Volkswagen group. Decked out with a profusion of high-quality fixtures and fittings and screwed together with scrupulous attention to detail, Skoda’s latest EV delivers an impressive interior ambience.
The dashboard layout is much like that of the Enyaq, with a 13in touchscreen infotainment system and a cute digital driver’s display, which can be augmented with a head-up display, which projects key information onto the windscreen, therefore avoiding the need for the driver to look away from the road ahead. When it comes to head, leg and elbow room, because the Elroq is based on the same platform as the larger Enyaq, it feels extremely roomy inside, especially in terms of elbow room. Consequently, a family of four should have little reason for complaint.
42 | November/December 2024 |
www.businesscar.co.uk
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