Updated: 04/10/2023 20:06 Issued: 04/10/2023 20:06
Berlin – The second generation Skoda Kodiaq will reach the first customers at the end of the first quarter of next year. It will start on the Czech market and in Germany. It will also be sold in Poland, Britain or France. It will reach important non-European markets such as India or Vietnam in the second half of next year. During the car’s world premiere, Martin Jahn, a member of the Škoda Auto company’s board of directors for marketing and sales, told ČTK today. The car company presented the new Kodiaq in the subway tunnel under Potsdam Square in Berlin, which was never put into operation.
Just like the first generation, the new Kodiaq will be produced in Kvasiny in East Bohemia, where the automaker invested 12 million euros, i.e. roughly 290 million crowns, in modifications to the production line. The result is a production capacity of 410 cars per day. The new Kodiaq arrives seven years after the introduction of the first generation. So far, 842,000 units of the first large SUV in Škoda’s range have been sold in 60 countries.
“We have big sales plans, we don’t share them much. Recently there have been problems with the supply of parts, so we don’t want to specify the exact volumes, but we are confident that the new generation Kodiaq will be very successful and that it could be sold at least as much as sold to the current generation,” Jahn told ČTK.
The car will be available with four engines with power from 150 to 204 horsepower. The novelty is a plug-in hybrid version with a battery range of 100 kilometers. The offer will include two two-liter diesel engines with an output of 150 and 193 hp and a gasoline mild hybrid or plug-in hybrid 1.5 TSI with an output of 150 or 204 hp and a two-liter TSI also with 204 hp. More powerful petrol and diesel engines will be delivered with all-wheel drive. All engines are mated to a DSG automatic transmission.
Compared to its predecessor, the length of the car has been extended by six centimeters to 4.76 meters, which offers more space for up to seven passengers. The luggage space in the five-seat version has increased by 75 liters to 910 liters, the seven-seat car now holds 340 liters, i.e. 70 liters more.
The model features the second-generation Matrix-LED front headlights and a horizontal light strip on the hexagonal radiator grille. Also new will be an optional adaptive chassis with two independently controlled valves for rebound and suspension compression.
The interior is dominated by a separate display with a diagonal of up to 13 inches and, for the first time in a large SUV, a head-up display that projects basic information onto the windshield. A permanent Internet connection allows for online updates or route planning. The gear selector is newly located on the steering column under the steering wheel.
New assistance systems include a remote turn or park assist that allows parking controlled via a mobile app outside the car.
Škoda Auto currently offers customers 11 model lines: in addition to the Kodiaq, there are the Fabia, Scala, Octavia, Superb, Kamiq, Karoq, Enyaq, Enyaq Coupé, Slavia and Kushaq. This year they will introduce a new generation of the Superb flagship. In 2022, the automaker sold 731,000 cars.
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2023-10-04 18:06:09
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