I've had a few Skoda's in the past and I was just looking over the current range of Skoda's including the Superb, as an option for my next company car. However, the emissions figures for the Superbs are a complete killer in terms of choosing one as my next company car.

Whilst many claim that Skoda's are built from the same components as used in the Audi and VW part bin, when it comes to emission figures both Audi and VW are leagues ahead of the Skoda's. For a company car driver that ultimately means money!! Are there any known plans in place to improve the situation? because the underpowered Greenlines aren't striking me as a viable option?

It's a problem, isn't it. A much larger chunk of the range needs stop/start, etc. The (non-)performance of the Greenline and BIK CO2 tax hit is making me look elswhere for when my Superb Elegance 170 goes end of lease in Feb.

Correct - had the same thoughts/issues when I recently changed mine. For our company cars, it's based on grading and each grade has a particular CO2 limit and lease limit. I ordered a 2.0 TDI CR Combi in SE spec which was within the CO2 and lease limits but they have since moved the goalposts and dropped the 2.0 TDI engine from the list.

Like you the 1.6 engine didn't inspire me - although the 2.0 engine is 145 g/km and higher than my previous Octavia, the resultant tax increase is only £30 per month, which I can live with.

Clearly the BMT engines in VW et al, haven't yet filtered into Skoda - will they? Who knows, perhaps they won't be allowed to otherwise it may detract sales from the main group?

Correct - had the same thoughts/issues when I recently changed mine. For our company cars, it's based on grading and each grade has a particular CO2 limit and lease limit. I ordered a 2.0 TDI CR Combi in SE spec which was within the CO2 and lease limits but they have since moved the goalposts and dropped the 2.0 TDI engine from the list.

Like you the 1.6 engine didn't inspire me - although the 2.0 engine is 145 g/km and higher than my previous Octavia, the resultant tax increase is only £30 per month, which I can live with.

Clearly the BMT engines in VW et al, haven't yet filtered into Skoda - will they? Who knows, perhaps they won't be allowed to otherwise it may detract sales from the main group?

I do not have company car but If i need to pay 100 + say these 30 Pounds Compare to have privite car it is nothing it like cheap of the cheapest

Then I will be driving 3.0 TDI as company car

Surely having a company car is a bonus? What's wrong with having to pay something?

I bet its cheaper than having to buy a car like most of us have to.

Thats why I prefer cash as bonus (not a company paid car) and buy myself are car that suits.

Edited 27 November, 201114 yr by digidoctor

I have a 2.0 TDI 140 (non-CR) and my company policy is based now on whole life cost including mpg CO2 etc. In that policy can now have a 320 efficient Dynamics (just) in my WLC allowance ( a 28K car) but not a 140 Superb SE (only have S trim , unless I drop to 1.6 ) Even then the Co2 is quite high (143 ish ?) compared with 140TDI passat (126) Octavia (126) and Golf (as low as 114 for 140 TDI with BMT ).

Not sure why Octavia has the "new" VW 140 TDI setup but Superb does not. I will sadly be changing to either the Golf or 320 later this year as even the 320 is £10 per month less tax than current car and the Golf Match loaded with extras is about £20 a month less. Shame really. Still, at least while I had it I brought some colleagues around to getting a Superb this time instead of their large Volvos etc - personally I am looking for less tax and more mpg this time round.

I have a 2.0 TDI 140 (non-CR) and my company policy is based now on whole life cost including mpg CO2 etc. In that policy can now have a 320 efficient Dynamics (just) in my WLC allowance ( a 28K car) but not a 140 Superb SE (only have S trim , unless I drop to 1.6 ) Even then the Co2 is quite high (143 ish ?) compared with 140TDI passat (126) Octavia (126) and Golf (as low as 114 for 140 TDI with BMT ).

Not sure why Octavia has the "new" VW 140 TDI setup but Superb does not. I will sadly be changing to either the Golf or 320 later this year as even the 320 is £10 per month less tax than current car and the Golf Match loaded with extras is about £20 a month less. Shame really. Still, at least while I had it I brought some colleagues around to getting a Superb this time instead of their large Volvos etc - personally I am looking for less tax and more mpg this time round.

Do your homework, Most of these cars have latest spec engines and emissions saving measures, and these will undoubtedly arrive in future Superbs. However, everyone at work that has a car fitted with start-stop technology switch it off (if possible) and that impacts the claimed fuel consumption figures.. Ensure you get a good test drive and see if you can live with it first.

I'd willingly pay £10 extra a month not to hear my car restart itself a zillion times a day (alright slight exaggeration).

Surely having a company car is a bonus? What's wrong with having to pay something?

I bet its cheaper than having to buy a car like most of us have to.

A very strange post and one that smacks of begrudgery.

Why shouldn't company car drivers wish to reduce their tax bill?

OP is right, the Skoda engines are a generation behind the VW/Audi range.

Not a strange post at all IMO ^^ - for the mileage that I do (both business and private) I could not afford to run such a car as what I have; it would be a lot more than my CC tax.

I do, as you point out, have the choice to reduce my tax bill, if I wish to do so. Some colleagues have, others haven't, depends on personal circumstances.

Agreed though Skoda is lagging behind.

But thats the Skoda brand, VAG offload the cheaper stuff that is either being phased out or has been out available to VW and Audi for some time. The result is massive savings on what is essentially the same car. To me (who had to buy a car, mainly for work) had to spend an extra £10 a month on a 140 SE Superb instead of a 3 series thats not much of a choice, its the Superb every time.

I could have chosen a tax efficient Passat saloon 140CR in 'S' spec, however, I opted for the more practical and better specified Superb Combi GL. I tried a Passat Estate 1.6Tdi which had a better ride, nicer 6 speed gearbox and larger fuel tank than the Superb GL.

It's a crying shame the Superb range of engines is not more tax friendly.

I doubt I'll choose a third Superb in three years time, however, I would consider a Octy III with a S/S 140CR engine.

Well I drove a CityGo with stop/start today and found it very easy to get on with, so I can't imagine that the Greenline is any different.