Photo: Skoda
Ahead of the upcoming debut, Skoda has shared a few more teasers for its Kodiaq RS. This is the kind of stuff that will excite potential buyers and nobody else.
The Kodiaq RS is Skoda's first performance SUV built by Skoda, but it's nowhere near as flamboyant as some of the others. Instead, it's built with the same restraint as an Octavia RS.
The highlight of the teaser image set is a shot of the 20-inch Xtreme wheels with 235/45 R20 tires, the same ones as on the Octavia RS 245, but an inch bigger. Fantastic! Behind them sits a set of 17-inch brake discs with red painted calipers. Something tells us you can't go lower than 19 inches with the winter wheel set.
What Skoda didn't say is if these wheels are optional, and we suspect they are. The hot Kodiaq also boasts a slightly tweaked vRS logo with the v colored in red. A gloss black grille is mirrored by the black mirror caps and roof rails.
Around the back, the model boasts a familiar triangular double exhaust setup and a trademark red reflective strip going across the bumper. No diffuser?
While the full specs of the car have not yet been released, we suspect that the twin-turbo 2-liter TDI makes the same 240 HP and 500 Nm as it does in the VW Tiguan. Still, it could be more... or less, considering new emissions tests have chopped 6 HP from the Golf R.
The Kodiaq RS has set a new Nurburgring track record for 7-seat SUVs. However, 9 minutes and 29.84 seconds is painfully slow, so don't expect this to be in the same league as the Porsche Macan or even the upcoming Tiguan R. There are other cars models that could take that record but never tried, such as Audi's SQ7 or the Range Rover.
The highlight of the teaser image set is a shot of the 20-inch Xtreme wheels with 235/45 R20 tires, the same ones as on the Octavia RS 245, but an inch bigger. Fantastic! Behind them sits a set of 17-inch brake discs with red painted calipers. Something tells us you can't go lower than 19 inches with the winter wheel set.
What Skoda didn't say is if these wheels are optional, and we suspect they are. The hot Kodiaq also boasts a slightly tweaked vRS logo with the v colored in red. A gloss black grille is mirrored by the black mirror caps and roof rails.
Around the back, the model boasts a familiar triangular double exhaust setup and a trademark red reflective strip going across the bumper. No diffuser?
While the full specs of the car have not yet been released, we suspect that the twin-turbo 2-liter TDI makes the same 240 HP and 500 Nm as it does in the VW Tiguan. Still, it could be more... or less, considering new emissions tests have chopped 6 HP from the Golf R.
The Kodiaq RS has set a new Nurburgring track record for 7-seat SUVs. However, 9 minutes and 29.84 seconds is painfully slow, so don't expect this to be in the same league as the Porsche Macan or even the upcoming Tiguan R. There are other cars models that could take that record but never tried, such as Audi's SQ7 or the Range Rover.
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