Skoda Enyaq test drive.
This was the second of the stars we wanted to test drive (as said in ionic 5 test drive, due to damaged caused to my eyes by a botched cataract surgery, my wife is chauffeur currently)
the car was a Enyaq iv80x in arctic silver with crystal grille and my preferred interior trim ofecosuite (olive brown)
Again, a great dealership, David the Motability salesman, handed over the keys and said bring it back before it runs out of electricity and have a good test.
As normal, these dealers never have the specs available to test drive that appear in the scheme, always having a higher spec,so I will ignore the items not on the available specs pkus packs I might buy.
The wife was first impressed with the entrance to the car, where you go up to the seat instead of lower cars like the ionic 5 where you drop down into the seat. The ionic 5 seat was more snug,having a sports style seat, with the Enyaq more like our Superb (though they had a Sportline in the showroom and that seat was more like the ionic.) but the Enyaq seat squab was longer so more comfortable.
I do like the eco suite trim a nice blend of olive with greys and blacks, the door LEDs are good, and when you open the door, the light drip on the door changes to red to show to other drivers it’s open.
we took it down a road which has traffic calming humps all the way down and it coped very well, then some country roads and finally, the motorway.
On all road surfaces it was quiet, comfortable, held the road well without any skittishness.
I thought the sat have screen looked better than the ionic 5, much more colourful and quicker.
the wife found the acceleration very good and enjoyed the one pedal of B mode, excellent, not having to brake. Also she was impressed with the way the screen in front of the driver woukd show the car in front of us and, at one point, changed to a bike when that was in front. Very intuitive.
Even though it is shorter than our superb estate,the cabin felt bigger, the boot is very good, almost as big as the superbas.
In all types of roads, from 30 mph to 70 mph the car returned 4.1 miles per KWH, very good.
Back at the dealership, we talked about deliveries and the wait time has dropped, with cars available now and even if I ordered a factory built to my spec, I could order October for January delivery.
only downside is the wife doesn’t think I could have the Race Blue with the eco suite interior lol race blue suites lighter trim colours.