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Avensis 2.2d4d v Skoda Superb 2.0d

  • 02-11-2010 2:08pm
    #1
    finbarrk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,494 ✭✭✭


    Both top of their ranges, which would be the better buy for 2011. Both around the same price.


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  • #2
    Zubeneschamali
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    From those two, I'd take the S-Max.


  • #3
    Lex Luthor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,220 ✭✭✭✭Lex Luthor


    finbarrk wrote: »
    Both top of their ranges, which would be the better buy for 2011. Both around the same price.

    I'd have the Superb


  • #4
    SpannerMonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,106 ✭✭✭SpannerMonkey


    No contest Superb far classier car nicer to drive and better looking


  • #5
    Moanin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,136 ✭✭✭Moanin


    Turbo Lag in the Toyota is terrible!:mad:


  • #6
    Zonda999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Zonda999


    Superb for me anyway, far nicer car in almost every regard, IMO anyway


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  • #7
    mailforkev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,812 ✭✭✭mailforkev


    Superb all the way, get an estate for maximum enjoyment.

    Avensis has a nasty plastic interior, and is duller than a tin of magnolia paint.


  • #8
    maddness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭maddness


    I have been driving a top spec Superb for the last 6 months and its impressed me more than any other car I have driven/owned, and I have had hundred's.
    If you can get over some of the small mindedness towards Skoda its a great car.


  • #9
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Top of the range avensis quite dull, and not fast enough. I'd have a legacy or the soupherb which has a nice interior and plenty toys. Insignia elite would have to be considered too.


  • #10
    Leonard Hofstadter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Leonard Hofstadter


    Superb wins this in a canter, the new Avensis is a poor car on a number of counts. I think the old (Mk 2) Avensis is a better car actually. The diesel is quite noisy and sounds very harsh in the new model and the electric parking brake is in such a stupid position.

    I'd have to say OP you really need to look at the revised Mondeo and of course the Insignia too.


  • #11
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,688 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Im almost afraid to ask what either of those 2 cars actually costs in top spec?


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  • #12
    Boskowski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,361 ✭✭✭Boskowski


    There is 3 specs for the superb of which the Elegance is the highest spec. That one is for just over 30k. Not sure if they do an L+K version of the superb. They do for the octavia.
    Very very nice car. Don't know the avensis but it would have to be awesome to beat that superb.


  • #13
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,688 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Boskowski wrote: »
    There is 3 specs for the superb of which the Elegance is the highest spec. That one is for just over 30k.

    The avensis is crap. Toyota simply dont know how to do quality touches. I was thinking of getting a Lexus GS450h and even that has a certain cheapness to it around the edges..
    The 30k is nt a bad price.. I thought the OP meant TOP SPEC as in all the toys which I think brings it to within about 4k of a bmw 520d SE


  • #14
    Boskowski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,361 ✭✭✭Boskowski


    Yes you can add to the elegance still. Leather seats etc, dsg costs a litte more too. Not sure what dearest possible version would be. I'd say I'd rather have a monster superb than a barebone 520. :o


  • #15
    mathepac
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭mathepac


    Boskowski wrote: »
    There is 3 specs for the superb of which the Elegance is the highest spec...
    4 including the Greenline
    Boskowski wrote: »
    ... That one is for just over 30k...
    31.6k list with the older PD engine 32.3k list with the CR engine
    Boskowski wrote: »
    ... Not sure if they do an L+K version of the superb. They do for the octavia...
    No L&K Superb listed in the current Irish price-list
    Boskowski wrote: »
    ... Very very nice car. Don't know the avensis but it would have to be awesome to beat that superb.
    +1.


  • #16
    finbarrk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,494 ✭✭✭finbarrk


    Ok, thanks lads. I was thinking the Superb had the better spec, etc. Ye have confirmed it.


  • #17
    finbarrk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,494 ✭✭✭finbarrk


    mickdw wrote: »
    Im almost afraid to ask what either of those 2 cars actually costs in top spec?

    The Superb, 170bhp is around €33k and the Avensis, 150bhp is around €2k more.


  • #18
    SpannerMonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,106 ✭✭✭SpannerMonkey


    Plus a top spec super was on fifth gear recently and they voted it best estate car ever beating mercedes which was competition for title


  • #19
    Matt Simis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Matt Simis


    finbarrk wrote: »
    Ok, thanks lads. I was thinking the Superb had the better spec, etc. Ye have confirmed it.

    Isnt it a class size bigger too?


  • #20
    SpannerMonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,106 ✭✭✭SpannerMonkey


    No don't think so
    Avensis vs superb
    Corolla vs octavia
    Auris vs fabia

    Isn't it ??


  • #21
    Leonard Hofstadter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Leonard Hofstadter


    finbarrk wrote: »
    The Superb, 170bhp is around €33k and the Avensis, 150bhp is around €2k more.

    The Avensis 2.2 Luna is €1k cheaper than the Superb.

    Still wouldn't have one in a month of Sundays though, especially over a Superb.

    Can anyone explain why the top spec Avensis in Ireland is only available with a 2.0 litre petrol engine, and why the 2.0 diesel in tax band B is only available in the bottom three trim levels?


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  • #22
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    davy_b wrote: »
    No don't think so
    Avensis vs superb
    Corolla/Auris vs octavia
    Yaris vs fabia

    Isn't it ??

    FYP;)


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