However, it's a shame once again to see Skoda bow to the trend of replacing physical infotainment menu buttons with fiddlier touch-sensitive items. This is what Skoda has down to a tee: a driving environment that might not wow initially but has the ergonomic essentials bang on and requires no getting used to because everything is where you expect it to be and it just works, properly. But thereвЂ™s now also a suite of more advanced safety systems, including predictive cruise control that reads road signs and an emergency assist function for multi-lane roads that's claimed to be able to steer you out of the path of a stationary car in front if it canвЂ™t brake in time. The interior tweaks are even more minor, centring around a new infotainment screen design and the addition of the firmвЂ™s Virtual Cockpit digital instruments as an option. That engine joined the Superb range very late last year, but for 2019, thereвЂ™s also some mild visual updates: a lightly redesigned front end, new matrix LED headlights, extra chrome all round, вЂ™SkodaвЂ™ spelled out across the bootlid, as has become the fashion, and a couple of new colours. ThereвЂ™s every reason, then, that a user-chooser might look towards this 1.5-litre TSI petrol engine instead. The Superb mix is down to 66% oil-burners this year - still the dominant fuel but falling away. But times are changing and the diesel mix of fleet and private cars alike is dropping off.

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