Having owned both I'd like to give you comparisons.

Quality feel - Superb, the Passat creaks and looks cheap, even with the climate controls.

Fuel - Passat, mine is a DSG, and it is absolutely fantastic on fuel, beats the Sup auto by about 6 mpg on the urban.

Looks - Passat, no getting away from it, newer is better, my Sport looks Gucci.

Handling - Passat, no suprise here, mines lowered 15mm, and the newer suspension holds the corners better, however soak up is the Superbs domain.

Dealers - Can't say, for private reasons I can't take the Passat in unless it suffers a major fail, but VW locally seem very snobby.

Equipment - I think my Comfort wins here, I lack CC, live a/c feeds, ambient lighting in the doors and floor, full MFD, and triangle.

Noise - Superb again, the Passat is harsh.

Oil - The Sup would use 0.5 litres over 10k, the Passat is on course for 4 litres over this period.

Faith - I used to climb in the Sup and know I didn't have to worry, the Passat doesn't fill me right now.

Will I? shall I? would I? - I think it will be off to Toyota next, I can't afford a Sup anymore, and the Passat will have to be gone sharpish next year, and tbh I'm tired of this VAG sidestepping routine, I never had it from Vauxhall, and I don't expect it from Toyota either, top marks Mr VAG, you've just lost another customer for the sake of a few quid to you, all the horror stories you read about the 2.0 PD, and the B6 in general doesn't inspire me to want another VAG car, and it isn't the cars, it's VAG, never before have I been lied to and conned so much by a franchised dealer, the one I was going to buy from tried to sell me a Cat C, the Sup dealer bodged up a few things so the warranty could pay, and the one I bought from took my cheque and then informed me the warranty was void cos of it being a cab, cheers.

Think im with you on the ditching VAG front. Although I love my Supurb, its cost me 2K in maintenece alone in a little over 18months, and I service it myself!

As much as I like the idea of "better quality :wonder: ", I think the likes of Ford will get my money next time. They are a piece of proverbial to work on and parts are cheap and there is none of this timing belt crap being replaced at 4 years.

Is this VAG grumbling isolated to the Superb or is it across the entire range of Skodas I wonder?

Have had it myself when I used a VW dealer. You go in and try to get a part and as soon as you mention "Skoda" they get all snobby on you. Not had any experience with a Skoda dealer but I constantly hear bad things on here. Shame, you'd think VAG would listen up and realise their dealer network and silly design protocols are ruining their brand. Some re-training and a few £'s spent on design flaws SO easily rectified at production stage would increase their brand value loads.

Makes you wonder if their slogan off "manufacturers of happy drivers" is accurate.

You have to play these small minded people at their own game.

Go to a car park and find a VW branded vehicle based on the same platform and with the same running gear as your Skoda. Ensure the 10th digit of the VIN is the same, which defines the build year.

Note down its registration number and VIN and keep these in the glovebox of your Skoda.

When you need a part from a VW dealer, give them the recorded vehicle details.

I used this to great advantage when some lowlife on a visit to Leicester broke the door mirror glass in my Superb. A new one was obtained from VW in about 10 minutes. Luckily I managed to reclaim the cost of the glass on expenses - I've never felt good about Leicester since.

rotodiesel.

You get bonus points if you use vehicle details from one of their own cars on the part-ex forecourt.

It kinda sums the whole company up, Skoda definately build a better car than VW, so what does VW do, it sacks the person responsible for dragging Skoda out of the laughing stocks, what it should've done is transferred him over to Audi to make sure their cars are tip top, and demoted the Audi guy to VW to pull quality up there also.

I'm not a Superb knocker tbh, I had that car 3 years, she didn't cost a lot to keep otr, I got a brilliant PX for it, and it will be placed alongside the VX Omega as the two best eco rides I've owned, the Passat can be viewed easily for poor production, the fuel lid doesn't line up with the body line, the dash creaks, if you lean against the centre console it creaks a bit more, the seats stain real easy, the skin is dented easily, and thats before you mention the injector failure, the steering ecu failure, the tyre noise and wear, all three of which VW will deny there is a problem with on various models.

The futures' bleak, the futures' VW, to coin an add slogan from a phone company.

How on earth they think they can continue like this is beyond me, before long their whole customer base will be shot, you should see the USA side of things, many not happy bunnies over there.