The Škoda Superb is a 4-door saloon / 2-door cabriolet / 4-door limousine from Škoda Auto, built from 1934 to 1949, when streamlining and independent suspension were arriving together. Under the bonnet: 2.5 L SV I6. Vladimír Matouš drew it.
How it came about
The original Škoda Superb is a full size luxury car that was made by the Czechoslovak car manufacturer ASAP, later AZNP from 1934 to 1949. It was the company's first car with a V8 engine and all-wheel drive. After 1949, Skoda's luxury car became the even larger and heavier Škoda VOS. In 2001, Škoda revived the Superb model name for an unrelated model based on the Volkswagen Passat.
The hardware
Power comes from 2.5 L SV I6; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It shifts through a 3-speed manual / 4-speed manual. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its family tree is legible: assembly was at Mladá Boleslav, Czechoslovakia. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Bugatti Type 57, the Chevrolet Suburban, the Peugeot 401 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Škoda Auto stablemates include the HZS-1 and the Trekka.
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the Škoda Superb — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.