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By Matt Bird / Thursday, February 10, 2022 / Loading comments
Expect to see plenty Skoda Enyaq vRS Coupes around when deliveries begin in July. For the average new car buyer – whoever they actually are – it seemingly ticks a lot of boxes. There’s the coupe-SUV shape thing that people can’t get enough of, electric propulsion, familiar vRS and Skoda badges, plus the brisk performance that comes from 339lb ft at zero rpm.
But it ain’t gonna come cheap. The vRS was always going to carry a premium over the 80x Sportline (which was £46k when we drove it, and nudged over £50k as tested) but, even allowing for that, seeing an on-the-road price of £51,885 for the Enyaq flagship will take some by surprise. Now, obviously, very few people pay cash for their new cars anymore, and the monthly payments will make that figure look more palatable, but that price makes the Enyaq vRS the most expensive Skoda ever. By a margin. This car is even so new-school that it’s more expensive than the equivalent VW – the mechanically identical ID.4 GTX starts at £49,025. But this is still a Skoda – albeit a highlighter-yellow electric Skoda – and thus comes chock-full of kit. As standard buyers get heated seats, LED matrix headlights, dynamic steering and 20-inch wheels (21s are optional. On a Skoda!).
With orders opening on the new vRS next week, deliveries are due in July. After that the rest of the Enyaq Coupe range (likely to mirror that of the standard SUV-shaped one) will follow. And, of ever so slightly more interest, the Enyaq vRS that isn’t the coupe, offering the same performance without such an attention grabbing look. Hopefully that one nips in at less than £50k…
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