Car review: 2026 Skoda Enyaq

Posted 29 October, 2025 Nathan Ponchard

Skoda enhances its impressive Enyaq medium-sized electric SUV with a handsome modern facelift, a new SUV wagon body style, and sparkling value-for-money.

Popularity doesn’t always equal greatness, and obscurity isn’t always a reflection of inferiority.

Take the Skoda Enyaq, for example. Since sales began in Australia in November 2024, this roomy medium-sized electric SUV has managed to shift just 214 units in the 11 months to October 2025, despite the car being rather good at what it does. That’s in stark contrast to in Europe where a record 80,000 Enyaqs will find homes in 2025. 

Yet Skoda Australia is refusing to give up, introducing an expanded, re-styled, and re-priced MY26 Enyaq line-up to establish itself in one of the most competitive markets in the world. In other words, Skoda is armed to tackle the Chinese EV brands head-on. As a side note, MY, or Model Year points to the car cycle, not necessarily the year the car was built.

Exterior

For starters, the MY26 Enyaq range is no longer just a single coupe-SUV body style in rear-drive (Sportline) or all-wheel drive (RS) configurations. The Sportline Coupe remains near the top of the Enyaq tree until an updated RS arrives next year, but it has been massaged to deliver superior value for money and a very well-stacked equipment list for its $65,990 price (down $4000).

Just as importantly, the MY26 Enyaq offers greater visual appeal compared to its MY25 predecessor. Deploying Skoda’s new “modern solid” design language on the facelifted Enyaq removes the overwrought faux grille of the previous model and replaces it with a stronger, more contemporary visage. This looks particularly fine when bristling with embedded lighting from the ‘Illuminated Tech Deck’ that’s part of an optional $5000 Ultimate Pack.

Value

The MY26 Enyaq Sportline Coupe now gets this pack standard, making it $10,000 better off than last year’s big-grille version with Ultimate Pack. So already, the new Enyaq offers much more value.

That’s only the entree. A new SUV wagon body style has been introduced to Australia, and prices start at $50,990 before on-road costs for the entry-level 60 Select ($54,990 drive-away), or $59,990 for the 85 Sportline ($63,990 drive-away).

Performance

The smaller-battery Enyaq Select (63kWh versus 82kWh for the Sportline) does concede a degree of performance compared with the Sportline and WLTP-measured electric range (410km compared to 547km for the Sportline SUV and 561km for the more aerodynamic Sportline Coupe). But given its price and competitor set, 410km is in the base-model ballpark, while its level of standard equipment is extensive.

Features

The Select boasts 19-inch alloy wheels, front and rear parking sensors, an electric tailgate, keyless entry and ignition, power-folding mirrors, tri-zone climate control, 13.0-inch infotainment screen with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, wireless phone charging, a heated steering wheel and front seats, a luggage net and even a driver’s door umbrella.

On the road

What rams home the MY26 Enyaq’s eye-widening value is that it drives like a European car – a good European car, not an appliance, or even a flabby SUV. More than anything, it’s this aspect that elevates the Enyaq far beyond most other electric SUVs for similar money, with the sweet spot being the Enyaq 85 Sportline SUV.

In its standard spec, preferably in lovely new (no-cost) Olibo Green, this 210kW/545Nm rear-wheel-drive Skoda is such a satisfying SUV to sit in and drive that there really isn’t any need to load it with options.

It’s terrific just the way it is, delivering a sophisticated and rewarding driving experience that feels distinctly European in its handling balance and ride comfort, and its steering feel and accuracy.

In this area alone, the Enyaq annihilates the artificial, over-light, inadequately controlled remoteness of the majority of Chinese EVs. On Australia’s hugely varied road network, this stuff matters.

All those joy-of-driving aspects combine with strong build quality. It has excellent seating comfort, benchmark cabin storage, loads of passenger and luggage space, and subtle active-safety tuning. When plugged in, the Enyaq charges briskly from 10 to 80 percent in 28 minutes.

In a multitude of ways, the rather delightful MY26 Skoda Enyaq almost commands attention, making it the definition of an undiscovered gem…for now.