Hi all,

 

I'm on the look out for a superb 3.6 and I'm torn between holding our for a good estate at the right price or going with the saloon. I'd like an estate for the versatility but I want to know how much deeper and wider the boot is on the estate please if anyone knows? Assuming the hatch let's the saloon be more versatile than a lid but I'm trying to establish if I can do without the estate. Currently have a 9-5 saloon which has a big boot and I'm struggling a little with all the luggage needed for 2 very young ones when going away for a few days.

 

Cheers all,

 

Demps

Always only estate there is no point buying saloon. You never know when you'll need the extra piece of loading space. 

 

And - for me - Superb Estate looks better than saloon. 

The footprint of the hatch/saloon/Twindoor boot is identical to the estate, the only extra space on the estate is above the retractable load cover.

 

So unless you plan to load the boot to its maximum capacity (i.e. above the window line) there isn't much in it.

 

Remember the hatch/saloon/Twindoor can be opened in either saloon or hatchback mode, so in hatchback mode access to the available boot space is as good as it gets...

 

Thanks both, sounds like I need to see them both in the flesh to establish if the saloon would do the trick or if I'll be won over by the estate (and paying the extra cash!)

 

Cheers

The estate has one big advantage, when it's raining and you're loading or unloading, or if you're sat on the bumper changing your footwear etc. The boot lid shelters you / the kids from the rain!

@Thedempsey

 

Only reasons to buy saloon would be financial - extremely good deal - or if for some reason you prefer look of the saloon rather than estate. In case of practicality - only estate. Fuel consumption difference would be marginal. 

Edited 21 January, 20197 yr by jafo

23 hours ago, Thedempsey said:

Hi all,

 

I'm on the look out for a superb 3.6 and I'm torn between holding our for a good estate at the right price or going with the saloon. I'd like an estate for the versatility but I want to know how much deeper and wider the boot is on the estate please if anyone knows? Assuming the hatch let's the saloon be more versatile than a lid but I'm trying to establish if I can do without the estate. Currently have a 9-5 saloon which has a big boot and I'm struggling a little with all the luggage needed for 2 very young ones when going away for a few days.

 

Cheers all,

 

Demps

I have the estate and 2 small children (3 and 1). For our last holiday I still had to rent a top-box to carry some stuff (week long trip).

 

As already mentioned, the floor area of the boot is about the same in both hatch and estate. I think the shape of the estate gives you a little bit more load height than the hatch since you can load up to the window line in it. Loading above the luggage cover would be a bad idea without a dog guard in place.

 

In the hatch, the seat bases can't be folded up to give a flat load area the way they can be in the estate which could be an issue depending on your use case. At the extreme end of things, I've been able to load in a few 2.4 m long IKEA flatpacks inside my estate by removing the rear seat base and reclining the front passenger seat flat (with a ratchet strap looped around the end to stop them hitting the dash under braking). I also like having the roof rails for the times when stuff has to go up top.

 

You can download the owner's manual from Skoda so it might help you to grab that and have a read through it especially where the hatch and estate have different features.

6 hours ago, silver1011 said:

The boot lid shelters you / the kids from the rain!

 

If you have three big girls blouse dogs who refuse to get out when it's raining, it also stops the back filling with water.  

 

Which is another good reason to get an Estate - it's great if you have dog(s) or wish to have them after buying the car. If you need/want to use a dog crate, the extra height at the rear of the load area facilitates them.

 

As chimaera said - the roof rails also give a lot of extra scope for a roof box or other loads that you may need to transport.

Estate gives you versatility

 

I don't know why but I had never thought about roof rails or being sheltered from the rain with am estate lid. We did a lot of walking and as the babies become kids we would be out a lot, so...that's very appealing.

 

To be honest I knew deep down I should wait for the right estate to come along, I was just getting impatient and had the options of a saloon at cheap prices and close. But I'd have some kind of remorse down the line if did that ...

 

Thanks for all your comments, really helpful

I went for a facelift twindoor as I preferred how it looks and it was much cheaper than the estate for me. Got a grat deal at 14 months old that wouldn't have existed for an equivalent estate, 

 

Things I don't like about the twin door compared to the estate:-

• Loading furniture
• Cant fold the rear seat base forward (although you can remove it)
• Rear headroom slightly restricted (saying that my 6ft 5" son has been ok sitting in the back!)
• Whilst boot is huge the twin door mechanism intrudes slightly at high level in the boot

 

Things I DO like about the twin door compared to the estate:-

• It's quieter re road noise from the rear
• Rear seat base is removable
• For me the twindoor is useful. I operate as a hatch most of the time but use as a boot in a multistorey carpark or ferry

 

 

 

 

Edited 25 January, 20197 yr by bigjohn

In an ideal world I'd have liked an estate - for the looks if nothing else  - but V6 estates (and in particular facelift examples) at sensible prices just don't seem to come up that often and attact a pretty sizeable markup when they do surface.

 

The twindoor is a good compromise I feel. When in hatchback/tailgate mode it's just like my previous Octavias - the boot size is pretty much the same and access very similar with the traditionally opening 'small' boot handy in confined spaces.

 

Only other gripes for me are the previously-mentioned non-flat folding seats and lack of a rear wiper, other than that I'm pretty happy with it.

Edited 28 January, 20197 yr by ethel

On 25/01/2019 at 01:13, Thedempsey said:

To be honest I knew deep down I should wait for the right estate to come along, I was just getting impatient and had the options of a saloon at cheap prices and close. But I'd have some kind of remorse down the line if did that ...

 

Thanks for all your comments, really helpful

 

If is not very late, go for estate, far more versatile, and reliable. For twin booth there are some issues with short length of wiring installed by factory (great savings) that fail in time as you can observe in photo attached from my car.

Also very seldom I use only the small hatch as  the space is quite limited.