{"id":1803468,"date":"2026-03-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1803468"},"modified":"2026-03-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:00:00","slug":"skoda-elroq-long-term-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1803468","title":{"rendered":"Skoda Elroq – long-term review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThe past is a foreign country: they do things differently there,\u201d wrote British novelist L.P Hartley. So true. Millennials and Gen Z won\u2019t recall, but in the Seventies and Eighties \u0160koda provided bed-rock material for a certain type of British comedian (along with casual racism, homophobia and misogyny\u2026 fun times). Look at the Elroq vRS, though, and you\u2019ll find scant trace of any Iron Curtain-era corner-cutting. This is state-of-the-art circa 2026.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also the fastest accelerating car \u0160koda has ever made. This claim is per the EV script, although zero to 62mph in 5.4 seconds is actually relatively subdued for a dual-motor electric car. Such is the rate of progress and level of expectation these days. How fast it can go, and how often this particular aspect of its armoury will get tapped up, is one of the things we\u2019ll explore over the next six months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Anyway, the Elroq vRS\u2019s spec is pretty tasty. It\u2019s supposedly a small-ish car but lands with each wheel pushed to the corners for satisfyingly meaty stance and chunky character. It\u2019s strongly representative of contemporary design trends, especially so if it\u2019s wearing the optional aero-influenced 21in wheels.<\/p>\n

Various lysergic colours are available including a vRS-specific Hyper Green, but that seems an unnecessarily OTT treatment of a shape that actually suits a more monochromatic approach. Anyway, ours is red, which works just fine and doesn\u2019t frighten the neighbours or small children. (It\u2019s an option, as are the larger wheels \u2013 \u00a3410 and \u00a3600 respectively.)<\/p>\n

The Elroq sits on the group MEB platform, and is fitted with an 84kWh battery (79kWh useable). No-one in their right mind could be anything other than sated by a power output of 335bhp and 402lb ft of torque. Suspension is via McPherson strut at the front and a multi-link rear, but in vRS guise it gets a more meaningful tune. The springs are shorter, so there\u2019s a 15mm drop in ride height at the front, 10mm at the rear. That dual motor set-up also gives it an edge over in-house rivals the Cupra Born VZ and VW ID 3 GTX.<\/p>\n

But the vRS appellation might be a little misleading. Initial impressions suggest that this Elroq is more comfort-oriented than you\u2019d imagine, which may or may not be a problem depending on customer expectation. Personally, I value an EV\u2019s ability to waft above its appetite for brain-mashing acceleration or cornering chops. Flinging two tonnes-plus from apex to apex is a slightly daft pursuit, although dispatching overtaking moves without breaking a sweat is always valuable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u0160koda might not thank me for it, but so far the Elroq\u2019s fabulous seats and the micro-suede on the dash \u2013 which juts out unusually for easier fondling \u2013 are two of the stand-outs here. If there\u2019s full-on driver entertainment to be had here, I think I\u2019ll be digging deeper to find it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe past is a foreign country: they do things differently there,\u201d wrote British novelist L.P Hartley. So true. Millennials and Gen Z won\u2019t recall, but in the Seventies and Eighties \u0160koda provided bed-rock material for a certain type of British comedian (along with casual racism, homophobia and misogyny\u2026 fun times). Look at the Elroq vRS, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-1803468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1803468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1803468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1803468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1803468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}