Is the Skoda Elroq the Affordable Electric Car VW Could Have Made

What do you all think about the Skoda Elroq? Is it really affordable and worth it

Skoda is owned by VW Group so they did make it

The car with the big 85kw battery is far from being cheap and affordable… it is more expensive than the Model 3.

The good part is that it finally comes with manual battery preconditioning. We have to see what is the build quality and whether Skoda will be keen to provide regular software updates once it hits the road

Skoda has such nice car designs but none of it translates to their EV line

ELIAH said:
Skoda has such nice car designs but none of it translates to their EV line

Have you driven or seen the car? The Enyaq is a great car, only thing letting it down really is the infotainment and software

@Wade
I drive a Volvo XC40 so infotainment and software can not possibly be worse than I am used to, but I was aiming purely at the outward aesthetics of Skoda ICE cars vs their understandably more aerodynamic design EVs

@ELIAH
The Enyaq looks quite a bit better than the Kodiaq

Drove a Skoda in Norway. Mandatory (auto enabled each drive) lane keeping software aggressively braked to a full stop twice on the highway, and suddenly tried to pitch us off a cliff once (fighting against me the whole time) before I turned it off and added a sticky note to the wheel to remind myself it needed to be turned off at the start of each drive. Making a highly complex feature mandatory seems to lead to a minimum-effort and dangerous version of it being made.

This is just my experience, but I’ll certainly never buy or rent a Skoda again

@Dare
Lane keeping braked?? What??

Cleo said:
@Dare
Lane keeping braked?? What??

Yep, stopped once I turned it off

Dare said:

Cleo said:
@Dare
Lane keeping braked?? What??

Yep, stopped once I turned it off

Are you sure it wasn’t the automatic emergency braking? It can get activated by all sorts of things like air from a truck’s air brakes, splashing water, etc. (But can also be easily overridden by pressing the gas pedal deeper for a moment)

@Cleo
Perhaps if the option is turned on/off by same menu item? It was a single menu item to stop both undesirable behaviors. The stops luckily activated when no other cars were nearby and in dry weather