This is the Skoda Kodiaq and if you're in the market for a seven-seater SUV, Chances are you've already heard all about this
You might have been told to wait for it or you might even be waiting for one right now
Because demand since its arrival has been crazy
But We Finally got our Hands on One To give you a look Around and See if There Really lives up to all that Hype
Space has always been a Skoda Strong point so a comes as
No Surprise that it's Absolutely Huge Inside
It's available in Both Five and seven seat Versions
This is the seven, which the Majority of Those sold will be because you can get Those extra seats for a premium of Just
1000 Euro That Makes it One of the Best Value 7 Seater Suvs on the Market with A starting Price of under
30,000 the Leg Room in The Back Is very Generous when you've got the Middle Seat right Back but you
Don't want to do that if You've got Passengers in the Last Row because you'll eat Into all their legroom
So i'm going to leave Myself With Just as much as I need Here
Keeping in Mind I'm not Particularly tall or small at five foot six
But I'd be Pretty happy with the legroom Back Here and chances are the ones you actually do put Back Here are going to
Be much much Smaller than me
That's Said I wouldn't fancy Spending too much Time Back Here either because the seats are very Low and flat so for Children Fine
Adults Maybe Just occasional Use
With Those Seats Or you've Still got A bit of A boot at
270 Litres Which Is about the Size of an Average super Mini and if You fold them Down
That Extends to
660 Litres
Then if You need to carry Anything bigger Than that again you Can Fold the Middle Row Down to to create an Absolutely Enormous load
Area of Over 2000 Litres
Then of Course it
Wouldn't be A Skoda if it Didn't have Lots of Small but Thoughtful touches to help They'd like that little bit Easier in The simplest
Possible Way. These include a Clip on the Windscreen for Holding your car Park Tickets
A grip in the Cup Holder that allows you to open A bottle with Just one Hand
Umbrellas in The Doorframe, an ice Scraper in fuel cap
Dividers in boot, and a Torch and
Finally it's Got These Little door Protectors to help prevent dings in the carpark and they Disappear again when you close the door
All Kodiaqs Come
Well Equipped From the ground up with Standard Features on the Entry-Level active Model Including Air Conditioning
Cruise Control and A touchscreen Display with Apple Carplay and Android Auto. The In-Betweener and
Traditionally the Best-Selling Skoda Trim is the Ambition Model and That Adds Larger Wheels, a larger touchscreen, triple Zone Air Conditioning
Parking Sensors and A few More Styling Upgrades and Finally for the Ultimate Kodiaq
Experience You've Got this Top of the range Style Model which Sees the Wheels get bigger , adds xenon Headlights
Alcantara Leather Seats an Upgraded Infotainment System With Sat-Nav and A reversing Camera and Ambient Lighting in the Cabin
This is the 2-Liter 190 Brake Horsepower at 4x4 Diesel Option with the Automatic, DSG Gearbox
Which Makes it the very very Top of the range Model Although There is a lower Power
250 BHP Version Available in Manual With 4-Wheel Drive Or Automatic without,
Although Skoda say the demand for Four-Wheel drive has Been Strong and I can see why
Especially in A car of this Size you really
Do Appreciate That extra Grip Around Corners and Particularly for Country Drivers it does Make it Easier to cope With Any More difficult Driving
Situations That might Arise or at the very least give you the Confidence to know that you Could
It was never Going to have Sports Car Handling given the Size but it Is Still an absolute Pleasure to Drive
It's got an excellent Driving Position Which gives you a great view out
Over The other vehicles When you're Sitting in Traffic and it's Just A very Quiet very Comfortable car to Drive
It doesn't Feel Half
As big as it Looks on the road and Those Driving Aids like the Parking Sensors and Reversing Cameras Make it Easy to cope With
in Tighter Spaces
Running Costs Are Reasonable Considering the Size This
One will do 100 Kilometers on 5.7 Liters of Steel and The TWo-Wheel drive Option will Reduce that at 5 it will
Also cost us 280 Euro A year to tack as Opposed to
390 for this One. For Those who don't do big Mileage will still need Big Space, there's also a Petrol - A 1.4 liter Manual
125 hp or A more Powerful Automatic and Both Still offer a reasonably good
Fuel Economy between Six and seven Litres Per 100 Kilometres and Have Significantly, lower Starting Prices Than the Diesel
It's very difficult to pick out Anything to criticize About this car but since it's our duty
I will point out that There Could
Be more Isofix anchors for Child Seat There are Just Two fitted to the outer Seats of the Middle Row an optional One Available
For The Front Passenger Seat and none at all in That Back Row and for a Family wagon that Could be Better
Then The Parking Sensors I have Found to be Just a little bit on the sensitive Side
You'll Find That because it is such A big Carrot, you're Generally Always Going to be Close to something and it Can
Be just a little bit Loud and Panic inducing when you're Trying to Reverse out of A tight Spot
But that Really is all I Can Think of the demand Speaks for Itself
It Ticks all the Boxes and then Some and your only Problem is going to be Fighting off the other People who
Want to get Their Hands on One too
You Can Try your luck at your local Skoda Dealer, Details of Which you'll find on CarsIreland.ie