Skoda Slavia: which powertrain?

NO MANUFACTURER GRADE WALK EXISTS FOR THIS CAR, so frequentlyComparedPairs is deliberately empty. Skoda's brochure prints a trim-by-powertrain grid and a key-features column, not a parent chain of the 'X over Y' kind Honda, Tata, Mahindra and Kia publish - so there is nothing to put in that field that would not be our own price ordering dressed up as Skoda's word. Leaving it empty also keeps the published set to genuinely adjacent steps: an invented walk from Signature to Prestige would have published a pair that skips the Sportline rung. VARIANT SET: Skoda's facelift brochure (page 17) prints a six-trim by three-powertrain grid - 1.0 TSI 6-speed MT on Classic through Prestige, 1.0 TSI 8-speed torque-converter AT on Classic+ through Monte Carlo, 1.5 TSI 7-speed DSG on Prestige and Monte Carlo - totalling 12 marked cells. Classic has no automatic and Monte Carlo no manual, on both sources. PRICES: Skoda's retail site carries no variant grid; its own configurator confirms the two automatics it exposes to the rupee. MONTE CARLO IS A STYLING LINE AND CARRIES NO EQUIPMENT PREMIUM, measured rather than assumed: against Prestige on the same gearbox it differs on exactly three rows, and the same three on both the 8AT and the DSG - black door mirrors instead of body-coloured, a rear spoiler, and no dual-tone interior theme. None is a registry feature, so Monte Carlo credits identically to Prestige and the step up to it reports as adding no equipment we track. That is the honest reading of a trim whose own brochure pages sell it on red stripes, a Monte Carlo badge and red brake calipers. Sportline is the same shape one rung lower, adding a spoiler and dual-tone paint over Signature. NO CERTIFIED EFFICIENCY IS STORED for any of the three powertrains. Skoda's facelift brochure carries no specification table and its configurator exposes none, so no efficiency figure is stored - efficiency is certified per model, so the Kylaq's and the Virtus's cannot be lent to it the way power and torque can. Power and torque: the 1.0's 116 PS matches the Kylaq figure from Skoda's own brochure, and the 1.5 is the same EA211 EVO as the Virtus's, which came from Volkswagen's. NOT CREDITED, each because the source says something narrower than the registry entry: the tyre- pressure monitor, which every trim carries as '(Warning Only)' - an indirect system, where our entry is a per-tyre readout, the same call already made on the Punch; the nine-speaker system on Prestige and Monte Carlo, which names no audio brand, no amplifier and no subwoofer; the rear-seat massager on those two trims, which Skoda calls first-in-segment and which our registry has no entry for; and the rear spoiler, dual-tone paint and interior themes, which are styling. The 6-way powered driver's seat on Prestige and Monte Carlo is credited at the 4-way rung, the nearest tier at or below it, exactly as the Kylaq's is, and its 6-way co-driver's seat to the powered-co-driver entry. The 25.6 cm touchscreen is 10.08 inches and so sits at the 9-inch rung, below our 10.25-inch entry - again the Kylaq's call. The 20.32 cm Virtual Cockpit on Signature and Sportline is credited at the 7-inch cluster rung and the 26.03 cm one on Prestige and Monte Carlo at the 10.25-inch rung, which it matches exactly. Skoda calls the Prestige upholstery 'Leather'; it is credited to our leatherette entry, the only upholstery entry we hold. TWO BLANKS READ AS DATA GAPS RATHER THAN ABSENCES, both on Classic+. Its power-windows cell is empty on both powertrains while Classic below it reads 'Front & Rear Power Windows' and Signature above it reads the same with driver-side auto up/down - a dearer trim losing the base car's rear windows is not credible, so they are credited. Its hill-assist cell contradicts itself across powertrains, empty on the manual tab and marked on the automatic one; with no Skoda sentence saying the automatic adds hill assist, it is credited on neither. Stability control no longer needs hill assist (29 Oct 2026), but it stays uncredited on the Classic and both Classic+ variants: Skoda's facelift brochure (skoda-newslavia.pdf), model page and launch release say only '6 airbags and 25+ safety features' for them and never name ESC per trim. THE TWO AUTOMATICS ARE DIFFERENT TYPES and are stored as such - the 1.0's is an 8-speed torque converter ('automatic') and the 1.5's a 7-speed DSG ('dct') - so no comparison is ever published across them, which would price a different engine as equipment. PADDLE SHIFTERS (9 Oct 2026): credited on all seven automatics, 1.0 8AT and 1.5 DSG. Paddle shifters are credited on every automatic; the row was missed when the car was built. Skoda's brochure grid covers key features only and has no row for them either way. WIRELESS ANDROID AUTO (9 Oct 2026): Skoda's own Slavia page says the 25.6 cm touchscreen comes 'with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto', and its brochure grid (skoda-newslavia.pdf, page 17) fits that screen to Signature, Sportline, Prestige and Monte Carlo, with the 17.7 cm unit on Classic and Classic+. RE-READ 29 OCT 2026 against Skoda's own configurator wording, the same calls as the Volkswagen Virtus: Skoda describes the reversing camera as 'Rear View Camera with static guidelines', so the camera entry (moving guidelines) is not credited, while the 360 Area View camera from Sportline up still is; 'Interior Ambient Lighting' does not say it runs across the dashboard and doors (on the Kushaq Skoda says 'Dashboard (Dual color)'), so ambient lighting is not credited; the mirrors are 'electrically foldable', not said to fold on locking, so auto-folding mirrors are not credited.