Australia’s cheapest European hybrid arrives with plug-in big brother

Skoda Australia has confirmed its Octavia medium sedan will function a brand novel Forty eight-volt tender-hybrid Make a selection variant with keen pricing from $43,990 power-away, or $forty five,990 D/A in wagon guise.

Simultaneously, Skoda confirmed its flagship Amazing enormous sedan will function a vary-opening skedaddle-in hybrid drivetrain and value of $66,990 power-away for the sedan or $62,990 old to on-aspect street costs for the wagon.

The novel Octavia mHEV, provided in Make a selection graceful guise, comes at a runt top rate to the $39,590 old to on-roads combustion-simplest sedan. Both variants create 110kW/250Nm, with the mHEV gaining a Forty eight-volt starter generator tender-hybrid machine, and seven-roam DSG.

Gas consumption improves to 5.1L/100km (5.2L/100km for the wagon), nevertheless, the tender-hybrid machine is restricted in skill when put next to competitors reminiscent of the $49,900 power-away Honda Civic and bigger $39,990 old to on-aspect street costs Toyota Camry.

Both of these vehicles command high-voltage batteries and electrical motors to toughen sustained EV-riding.

The Octavia, like many mHEV Volkswagen Auto Community merchandise, is restricted to extra torque during acceleration, regenerative braking skill, and the flexibility to hover purely on electrical vitality, though ‘crusing’ distance is vastly restricted.

In disagreement, it’s claimed that the new-confronted skedaddle-in hybrid Skoda Amazing can power as a lot as 112km (WLTP) on electrical vitality by myself, with mixed gasoline consumption likely matching the 1.4 – 1.5L/100 km settle provided in world markets.

The upcoming Amazing PHEV will additionally serve as a brand novel vary opener, provided in inferior ‘Make a selection’ graceful guise to sit below the $69,690 old to on-aspect street costs Sportline wagon — a reduction of $6700.

This brings the Amazing PHEV in competition with enormous plugless hybrid sedan competitors reminiscent of the $64,900 power-away Honda Accord and $74,221 Lexus ES. Many feeble PHEV competitors just like the $ninety 9,500 Mercedes-Benz C350e and $89,900 Audi A5 eHybrid don’t compete on label.

Energy decreases from 195kW/400Nm to a mixed machine output of 150kW/350Nm, with the PHEV additionally dropping all-wheel power, as every other sending vitality to the front-wheels thru a six-roam DSG.

The Amazing’s PHEV machine uses a 25.7kWh battery that can charge from empty to beefy in around 2.5 hours on 11kW AC vitality, or from 10-80 p.c charge in 25 minutes, with a DC height of 50kW.

Standard equipment on the Octavia Make a selection tender-hybrid largely mirrors its combustion-simplest counterpart. Some of this entails:

• Dual-zone local climate management
• Heated front seats
• Keyless entry with stroll-away locking
• Electrical bootlid
• 10-inch digital instrument cluster
• 13-inch infotainment touchscreen
• 45W USB-C rapidly charging
• 15W wireless tool charger with active cooling
• A assortment of safety parts including Adaptive Cruise Administration, Lane Support with Adaptive Lane Guidance, Front Notorious Traffic Support, eight airbags and more

Whereas the Amazing Make a selection skedaddle-in hybrid offers:

• 19-inch ‘Veritate’ alloy wheels
• Metallic paint
• Tinted rear glass
• Dynamic Chassis Administration
• Revolutionary guidance
• Tri-zone local climate management
• Heated front seats
• keyless entry with stroll-away locking
• Electrical bootlid
• 45W USB-C charging
• 10-inch digital instrument cluster
• 13-inch infotainment touchscreen
• 15W wireless tool charging
• Skoda ‘Orderly Dials’
• A assortment of safety parts including Predictive Adaptive Cruise Administration, Emergency Guidance Support, Exit Warning, Collision Avoidance Support, Tyre Tension Monitoring, front/rear parking sensors, rear-scrutinize camera, ten airbags and more

Skoda Octavia 2026: costs in Australia

All costs listed are old to on-aspect street costs unless stipulated elsewise.

• Make a selection Sedan: $39,590
• Make a selection Wagon: $41,090
• Make a selection mHEV Sedan: $43,990 nationwide power-away
• Make a selection mHEV Wagon: $forty five,990 nationwide power-away
• Sportline Sedan: $44,490
• Sportline Wagon: $forty five,990
• RS Sedan: $58,490
• RS Wagon: $59,990

Skoda Amazing 2026: costs in Australia

All costs listed are old to on-aspect street costs unless stipulated elsewise.

• Make a selection PHEV Sedan: $66,990 nationwide power-away
• Make a selection PHEV Wagon: $62,990
• Sportline Sedan: $67,990
• Sportline Wagon: $69,690