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BASE MODELCzech Republic

Superb Type 956 (1942–43)

The only four-wheel-drive Superb, and one of the rarest vehicles in the registry: five Type 956s built in 1942–43 on the 3.1-litre overhead-valve six, in German-occupied Bohemia.

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Sources & evidence
MODEL LINESuperb 4×4BUILT BYŠkoda, Mladá BoleslavPRODUCED1942–43OPERATED INCzech Republic, GermanyPRODUCTION5LAYOUT4 wheels

The record

Škoda built about 1,630 military Superbs for the Wehrmacht and its allies between 1941 and 1943, nearly all of them the rear-wheel-drive Type 952 — 1,626 of those, including 1,600 Kfz 15 personnel carriers, 30 ambulances and 100 Kfz 21 command cabriolets of the kind Guderian and Rommel used. The all-wheel-drive Type 956 came at the end of that programme and never got past five prototypes.

Specification

MANUFACTURED1942–43
ENGINEŠkoda 3.1-litre overhead-valve sixŠkoda 3.1 six
PRODUCTION RUN5
COUNTRY OF ORIGINCzech Republic
OPERATED INCzech Republic, Germany
STATUSprototypes only
RECORD KINDBase model
MODEL LINESuperb 4×4
FAMILYSuperb 4×4
WHEELS4
BODY STYLEStaff car
VARIANTS1

Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.

Body styles & colours

Factory colours

  • Panzergrau

Codes on hover. Hex values are representative approximations of period paint unless a source states a measured value.

AI rendering impression

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Sources

  1. 1Škoda Superb (1934–1949) ↗Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-23SOURCE

Registry record updated 2026-09-23 · status: researched