Skoda Enyaq Coupe Review: We test drive £42k flagship EV that cab drivers love

NEXT time you walk past a minicab rank, have a look at the cars waiting for a fare – I guarantee a good chunk of them will be Skodas.

For all the millions Skoda spends on glossy marketing campaigns the biggest endorsement of their cars is the fact cab drivers love them.

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For most of us, 90 per cent of our car’s life will be spent stationary and cold.

But for cabbies, 90 per cent of their car’s life is spent on the road. They choose their wheels carefully.

That’s why the next time you’re bundling yourself into a taxi after a few sweet sherries in town with pals you could be riding home in this – the Skoda Enyaq Coupe.

In simple terms it’s a coupe version of the regular Enyaq, one of the most sensible choices of EV on sale.

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A lot of coupe SUVs, like the Porsche Cayenne Coupe, lose a seat in the back and drop a load of headroom and boot space.

But this is a Skoda.

Even though it looks a lot sleeker than its boxy brother, it still has a massive 570-litre boot for little old ladies to put their shopping in on the ride home from bingo, and it hasn’t shed a single millimetre of headroom.

To pull this off, Skoda has fitted a glass roof as standard and ditched the traditional sunblind, instead treating the glass so it blocks out blazing sunshine and prevents it from turning the car into a greenhouse.

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The first model to go on sale in the UK is actually the hotter vRS version, the first electric Skoda to wear the letters.

It’s basically a VW ID.4 GTX in a different skin, which means it’ll do 0-62mph in 6.5 seconds via four driven wheels.

Personally, I would wait for the standard 80 version which comes later this year.

It still looks good, but covers up to 339 miles as opposed to the vRS’s 309 miles.

It’ll also cost around ten grand less than the vRS’s £51,885 price tag.

The interior is well stitched together – of course, it’s a Skoda – and on the road it feels refined for the most part.

Only on bumpy roads at high speeds does it get a bit floaty – you feel the weight of the 82kWh battery in the car’s belly as you return to the ground with a thump.

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Overall, Skoda has made its flagship EV a lot prettier without sacrificing the things that make it one of the most practical electric cars on the market.

And I think cabbies will agree.

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