Skoda has exposed a mid-everyday living facelift for its largest SUV, the Kodiaq. It comes four a long time into the model’s lifespan, and it marks a milestone in the brand’s existing SUV offensive – this was the car or truck that kickstarted the brand’s press into many SUV marketplaces, with lesser choices these as the Karoq and Kamiq, and the new all-electric Enyaq, also.
According to Skoda style and design head Oliver Stefani, style and design adjustments for the facelift are meant to give the Kodiaq a “crisper” glance, with the greatest alterations coming at the entrance stop of the car or truck.
The nose has been elevated with a new, taller and more upright grille and a flatter bonnet. The headlights are slimmer than in advance of and run by LED technologies as conventional, with matrix LED headlights now obtainable on the Kodiaq for the really initially time, reserved for substantial-spec styles. There is also a new entrance bumper.
All-around the back again, new LED taillights lead to a more intricate glance. On SE trim variants and previously mentioned, dynamic indicators are incorporated. New wheels seventeen to twenty inches in style and design are obtainable also.
On the within, the Kodiaq is a recipient of a new steering wheel obtainable in two and three-spoke patterns based on the trim level. New attractive trim strips and contrasting stitching are obtainable, whilst the inside ambient lighting technique is more expansive than in advance of.
The Kodiaq is now obtainable with each heated and ventilated entrance seats with a therapeutic massage perform – these are conventional on the vary-topping L&K trim version. The optional surround seem technique from specialist Canton is now a ten speaker set up, compared with the 8 speaker set up of previous.
The infotainment components remains as in advance of, which means central touchscreens 8 and nine.two-inches in sizing are obtainable, together with a 10.twenty five-inch fully electronic instrument panel. Skoda’s ‘Laura’ voice assistant application is obtainable together with smartphone connectivity and navigation.
Driver guidance and protection technologies is built upon with the inclusion of Crew Safeguard Help. This capabilities supplemental radars at the rear of the car or truck that can go through and respond to cars approaching from driving that could pose a risk of a rear stop collision.
The standard petrol and diesel engine line-up carries above unchanged. It kicks off with a turbocharged 1.five-litre four-cylinder TSI petrol engine building 148bhp and sending drive to the entrance wheels through a six-pace guide gearbox or a 7-pace computerized. A 187bhp two.-litre petrol engine with four-wheel-drive is also offered.
Equally diesel alternatives are based on a two.-litre TDI engine with possibly 148bhp or 197bhp – each with a 7-pace DSG transmission and the latter fitted by default with four-wheel-drive.
The facelift marks the return of the vRS model to the Kodiaq line-up. Like the facelift utilized elsewhere in the vary it receives a visual update together the same lines with a more imposing entrance stop, new headlights and taillights, and a new entrance bumper, whilst the sporty inside full with significant athletics seats is upholstered in black microfibre. The 10.twenty five-inch digital cockpit is conventional devices.
The greatest improve reserved for the new vRS, even so, is the fitment of a petrol engine. While the prior version applied a bi-turbocharged two.-litre diesel unit, the new warm Kodiaq borrows its motor from the most recent Volkswagen Golf GTI. It’s a turbocharged two.-litre four-cylinder petrol engine building 242bhp. No overall performance specs have been announced, but Skoda states it’s 60kg lighter than the diesel unit in the previous model.
The new Kodiaq goes on sale in July and will be obtainable in S, SE, SE L and SportLine trim variants, plus the luxury oriented L&K model and the overall performance tilted vRS. If the United kingdom line-up is to stay reliable with the pre-facelift model, the vary will open up in Britain with the SE car or truck, with prices probable all-around the £27,000 mark.
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