Skoda Enyaq: reliability & safety rating

The all-important five-star Euro NCAP safety rating is present and correct with the Enyaq, carried over from the old Enyaq iV naming convention – the highest scores being 94 per cent for adult occupant protection and 89 per cent for child occupants. There’s the usual large array of standard safety kit too: predictive adaptive cruise control, lane-keep assist, blind-spot detection, traffic-sign recognition, front and rear parking sensors, and a rear view camera. Step up the range and you get extra tech including matrix LED headlights and an area-view camera system.

We’ve not heard too many scare stories from MEB platform vehicles so far, so reliability shouldn’t be a major concern, and while the Enyaq didn’t appear in the most recent Driver Power survey, there were decent scores for the Kodiaq and Karoq (16th and 19th) and a little less so for the Kamiq (40th), while Skoda itself was 23rd out of 32 brands. This is a bit of a slip from Skoda’s historic highs – the brand hasn’t been an underdog for decades now, so needs to work harder to maintain its good reputation.