We are on our third Passat Estate and would find it hard to change. Comfortable, quiet, very economical to run, lots of useful bells and whistles, a cavernous boot, and relaibility like you would not believe. The MQB chassis is common to the Golf, Passat and others further up the range and their Audi, Seat, and Skoda equivalents <except> that Skoda make the wheelbase slightly longer giving significantly more legroom throughout. I am over 6ft and the Superb is the only 'normal' car I have ever been in where I can sit behind the driver with my legs in front of me and the driver's seat fully back doesn't touch 'em. The Superb is also a brilliant motor for any very tall person, say over about 6ft 6in, as it has enormous front legroom as well.
When VW took over Skoda, the latter were a joke in the car industry. Now having funding and access to some of the best chassis and engines ever built the management decided they had a point to prove - and still do. It has been long accepted that the build quality of most of what is produced in Pilzen* is in the main better than Audi. We had an Octy Estate 1.9 TDI 130 that was at the end of the Mk1's and it was a superb motor. The current version is no different. Although it won't bother the OP the only difference against many others is that the Octy Estate noseweight is only 75Kg. Apart from that consider it a slightly stretched Golf Estate (in the same way that as Superb is stretched.)
*We went to Germany on hols in 1991 after the wall had fallen and did a day trip from where we were staying to Prague before it got westernised. This including going past the Skoda factory in Pilzen; it had the biggest bus station out front that I have ever seen by a country mile!!