Skoda has never been the brand you buy to be noticed. It is the brand you buy because the car works, the boot is enormous and nothing about it will confuse you on a Tuesday morning. I have had a soft spot for that idea for years.
I had the Enyaq for a stretch in September, in Race Blue with a cycling-event wrap down the sides, and it reminded me why.
A word on Skoda
Skoda started in 1895 in Mladá Boleslav, Bohemia, when a bookseller called Václav Klement got a rude letter from the German factory that made his bicycle and decided to build his own. Cars followed in 1905. Then came a war, nationalisation and four decades behind the Iron Curtain, which is where the Skoda jokes come from. Volkswagen took full control in 2000 and the jokes stopped.
The pitch has barely moved since the bicycle: sensible engineering, a fair price, a few clever touches. There is still an umbrella in the driver's door. In Singapore the cars are sold by Skoda Singapore, part of Volkswagen Group Singapore, out of 26 Leng Kee Road, and the Enyaq shares its platform with the Volkswagen ID.4 in the same showroom. The full story deserves its own piece, and it will get one.
Simple, on purpose
This is a deliberately plain car, and Skoda knows it.
You get a small driver display straight ahead with the basics: speed, gear, range, cruise control, charging figures. Above it an augmented-reality head-up display repeats the important bits on the windscreen. It is a very good HUD. I preferred the one in the Deepal S07, which does more with the space, but this one shows you what you need and stops there.
The 13-inch centre screen is big enough and crisp enough, and runs wireless CarPlay and Android Auto without fuss. Climate lives on the screen, but there is also a proper bank of physical buttons underneath for the aircon, drive modes and parking assist. The air vents are rectangular and manual. You point them with your hand.
Tap the app drawer and there are four things in it. After a run of cars with menus nested six deep, that is a relief.
Driver assistance is a decent suite: adaptive cruise, Travel Assist lane keeping, blind spot warning, a 360-degree camera. It works quietly in the background and none of it nags.
Inside
Lots of space. The back seat is generous for a car this size, the boot is huge at 585 litres, and the sports seats are properly comfortable. The materials you touch most are soft and squishy. Drop your hand lower and you find hard plastics, which is where Skoda saves the money, and it is the right place to save it.
It is quiet in here too. Well insulated, well screwed together, and calm in a way that a lot of newer EVs are not.
How it drives
This is where the Enyaq gets interesting.
It is a big car that shrinks around you. The driving position is excellent. You sit high enough to see, low enough to feel connected, and the car gives you a clear sense of where its corners are. It turns in nicely, it is punchy off the line, and it is agile in a way you do not expect from something this size and weight.
Acceleration is smooth rather than violent. 8.1 seconds to 100 km/h on paper, and it feels quicker than that number in town. You feel the road. I would not call it a driver's car, but it is a lot more fun than most SUV EVs in this class, and it feels planted and secure the whole time.
The regen is controlled by paddles behind the steering wheel, so you can dial in exactly how much lift-off braking you want without touching a screen. Lovely feature. There are Normal, Sport and Eco modes. Nobody is going to Sport this car, and that is fine.
Pair your phone, pick a destination, drive. There is nothing else to learn.
Living with it in Singapore
Over my time with it the car averaged 18.3 kWh/100 km, comfortably under Skoda's official 21.0. The display was showing 226 km of range with 54 per cent left, so call it a bit over 400 km on a full charge by the car's own estimate. The 59 kWh usable pack is on the small side for this class, and the efficiency makes up some of the gap.
DC charging peaks at 165 kW and Skoda claims 10 to 80 per cent in about 24 minutes. AC is 11 kW three-phase, so an overnight top-up at home or the office is never a question. I did not time a charge on the loan, so those are Skoda's numbers.
Buying one
On the Skoda Singapore price list valid to 7 October 2026, the Enyaq 60 Sportline Advanced is S$230,900 with COE. That is S$17,000 less than the S$247,900 it launched at in February, and it is still a Cat B car sitting above the BYD Sealion 7 Premium, which was S$219,388 with COE on BYD's September list. The Sealion gives you a lot more car for the money: a bigger battery, more power, a bigger screen. Other brands go further still. You cannot ignore that.
The car to cross-shop inside the showroom is Skoda's own Elroq. Same platform, same battery, same motor, in a smaller body, for S$220,900 with COE on the same list. Ten thousand dollars buys you the Enyaq's extra length, the 585 litre boot and the Sportline kit. That is a fair trade for a family.
Skoda softens the sums with its EV+ package: a five-year vehicle warranty, ten years on the battery, eight years of roadside assistance, free servicing and a year of road tax, all with terms attached. You can line the Enyaq up against everything else on sale here in our compare tool.
The verdict
In a market full of EVs that want to impress you with screens, the Enyaq is safe, easy to pick up and simple to live with. Some of the easiest miles I have done all year.
It is well built, quiet, comfortable, and it drives better than it needs to. It is likeable without being memorable, and it does not have a Singapore price that matches the rest of the package.
If you want an EV that will never confuse you, never give you trouble, and still feels good on a back road, put it on your list. Just know you are paying for the badge and the engineering.