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Smaller diesel unit offers improved economy and CO2 emissions over old 1.9 TDI unit

Skoda has added Volkswagen Group’s 1.6 TDI engine to the Superb range.

The 104bhp, 184lb ft engine replaces the 1.9 TDI unit and is available to order now. The 1.6’s power and torque outputs are the same as the 1.9’s, but CO2 emissions are cut from 149g/km to 130g/km in the saloon and from 153g/km to 133g/km in the estate.

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Fuel economy is improved in the new diesel unit, too. In the saloon, it increases from 49.6mpg to 56.5mpg and in the estate it's up from 48.7mpg to 54.3mpg.

The saloon’s 0-62mph time stays at 12.5sec and the estate’s at 12.6sec, although top speed drops by 1mph to 117mph in the saloon and by the same amount to 116mph in the estate.

The new engine is available to order now, priced from £17,480 for the saloon and £18,640 for the estate.

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J400uk 20 August 2010

Re: Skoda Superb gets 1.6 TDI engine

Not going to be the quickest car in the world, but still should be an improvement over the outgoing Superb 1.9 TDI PD 105 as that engine is pretty ancient now.

blowerbentley 20 August 2010

Re: Skoda Superb gets 1.6 TDI engine

It's about time Autocar realised that lower CO2 output and improved fuel consumption are the same thing. Where else do you think the CO2 comes from?

Mr£4worth 20 August 2010

Re: Skoda Superb gets 1.6 TDI engine

Autocar wrote:
Skoda has added Volkswagen Group’s 1.6 TDI engine to the Superb range.

The 104bhp, 184lb ft engine replaces the 1.9 TDI unit and is available to order now. The 1.6’s power and torque outputs are the same as the 1.9’s, but CO2 emissions are cut from 149g/km to 130g/km in the saloon and from 153g/km to 133g/km in the estate.

Read Autocar's road test of the current Skoda SuperbRead the full article

The Superb is such a good car, but is this small engine man enough for the job? The average punter doesn't want to go everywhere flat out. In the early 70s we had a 2.7 litre Renault 30TX auto, back then it was seen as pretty competent and comfortable cruiser. If you were lucky it did 20mpg, and the performance...well it was almost exactly on a par with this Skoda. For all of the folk who'd be happy to arrive in comfort with no endorsements this is great value car. I bet its quiet on the Motorway too.